Matthew Gray Gubler grew up in Las Vegas and graduated from the Las Vegas Academy of International Studies, a magnet high school, in 1998. Gubler portrays Dr. Spencer Reid, the youngest member of the BAU team and resident genius. Reid holds three Ph.D.s and two B.A.s and has an eidetic memory but suffers from Asperger’s, a mild form of autism. Gubler’s first love is filmmaking, and thus far he has directed eight episodes of Criminal Minds.