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He plays Dr. Spencer Reid. Dr. Reid is the youngest member of the Behavior Analysis Unit of the FBI. In the first episode of Criminal minds we learn that he has an I.Q of 187, has an Eidetic Memory and can read 20,000 words a minute. He is the most popular character on Criminal Minds.
As Reid himself has stated before, he is not a medical doctor. In fact, the main reason he is introduced as "Dr. Reid" throughout the show was because Gideon feared that Spencer would not be taken seriously otherwise since he was so young at the time.
He was an aid to him while he was conducting classes after a FBI case caused him to lose some agents.
Spencer was originally envisioned as bisexual by his creator. The network, however, refused to allow it. He has, thus far, only shown interest in women. That does not entirely eliminate the posibility for him to also be interested in men.
No he does not. He graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he studied film making. His character on CBS's Criminal Minds, Dr. Spencer Reid, on the other hand, holds three PhDs; Mathematics, Engineering and Chemistry. (: