Gerardo Celasco

Actor/Actress

Gerardo Celasco, better known by his stage name Adrian Bellani, is an actor from the United States. On the NBC daytime drama Passions, he was the second actor to play Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald. Celasco and his family moved to El Salvador, his parents’ home country, when he was a teenager. He attended the American School of El Salvador (Escuela Americana) for his education. There, he not only competed in international horse jumping competitions, but he won and was invited to compete in the AASCA Central America Games representing his country. Celasco also became a very good volleyball player, and he was invited to compete in the Central America Games once more. He was a member of a Central American team that won the tournament. Celasco had the opportunity to practise with El Salvador’s national team.

Celasco later moved to the United States to attend Southern Methodist University to study economics. He moved on to Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where he earned a finance degree. Soon after, Celasco was asked to be the face of Toni & Guy’s Bed Head campaign by Salvadoran fashion photographer Roberto Aguilar. He also made an appearance in Frankie J’s “And I Had You There” music video. In 2006, People en Espaol named him one of the top 25 hottest Latin bachelors in the world. He made an appearance on The Tyra Banks Show in 2007 with Passions co-star Heidi Mueller. Celasco starred as Xavier Castillo in ABC’s How to Get Away with Murder in 2019.