Actor Zachary Quinto is set to play a
gay character on Ryan Murphy's upcoming supernatural drama American
Horror Story, Nikki Finke's DeadlineHollywood.com
reported.
American Horror Story will debut
on FX on October 5. In the show, married coupled Ben Harmon (played
by Dylan McDermott) and Vivien (Connie Britton) and their children
move into a house that knows their secrets and plays on their fears.
The 34-year-old Quinto will play, in at
least four episodes, Chad, the gay former owner of the house who
befriends Vivien. His character first appears during a two-part
Halloween episode.
Quinto is best known for playing a
young Spock in the 2009 J.J. Abrams' directed Star Trek
reboot.
Taking on another gay role – Quinto
recently played Louis Ironson in the revival of Tony Kushner's
groundbreaking AIDS drama Angels
in America – is nearly certain to stoke those gay rumors
once again.
Last year, Quinto told The New York
Times that he would rather talk about issues that he's passionate
about such as marriage equality or the bullying of gay teens than
answer questions about his sexuality: “The fact that these things
are such hot-button issues right now, socially and politically, I
would much rather talk about that than talk about who I sleep with.
I would love to be a voice in this maelstrom of chaos and obsessive
celebrity infatuation that says, 'Let's talk about something that
matters.'”