[4] Nader accompanied his mother, Minette, when she moved to Los Angeles to pursue an entertainment career.

[4][7] Nader won the role of Farnsworth "Dex" Dexter, the eventual third husband of Alexis Colby (Joan Collins), on the prime time soap opera Dynasty in 1983.

[5][8] Nader appeared as Nazi officer Burchhardt in the 1988 television film The Great Escape II: The Untold Story.

[14][15][16] Nader also appeared in episodes of other television series, including The Flash (1991), Law And Order: SVU (2002), and Cold Case (2009).

[17] Nader dated actress Ellen Barber for ten years, with the relationship ending around the same time as his role on As the World Turns.

[14] Nader died on August 23, 2021, at the age of 76 at his home, ten days after being diagnosed with an untreatable form of cancer.

[20] However, following his death, his daughter Lindsay revealed in an Instagram post[21] that her father had, in fact, lived with HIV for several decades; he had contracted the virus before she was born, and was one of the longest known survivors.