Gabriel Allen Nevins (born August 26, 1991) is an actor who is best known for starring in Gus Van Sant's 2007 film Paranoid Park.
Nevins was cast as the lead of Paranoid Park even though he was auditioning to be a skateboarding extra.
The photographer Nick Haymes published a collection of photos of Nevins, titled Gabe, in March 2012.
It featured photos of him that Haymes had taken since he first met Nevins shortly after the release of Paranoid Park.
[citation needed] He attended Rex Putnam High School,[4] but eventually spiraled out of control and has struggled with mental illness and drug addiction and also homelessness.