Chad Lowe Biography

Birth Name : Charles Davis Lowe

Date of Birth : 15 January 1968, Dayton, Ohio, USA

Height : 5' 8½" (1.74 m)

Occupation : Actor

Hailing from Dayton, Ohio, Chad Lowe moved with his brother (and future actor) Rob, lawyer father and novelist mother, to Los Angeles when he was nine-years-old. Living beside Martin Sheen, Lowe was encouraged to take up the art of acting by the famed actor. Lowe decided to take Sheen's advice, and he soon acquired an agent and landed his first acting job - a role in the TV-movie docudrama Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac, just before his 16th birthday. That same year, Lowe made his uncredited film debut in Oxford Blues (1984), and landed a regular role in the TV series Spencer.

After high school and a number of other television credits, he ventured off to New York to study drama. During his years of study, Lowe appeared in several stage productions including Grotesque Love Songs, and Huckleberry Finn.

Lowe returned to television in the late 80's playing a starring role in the telefilm April Morning, followed by work in a number of feature films. He created a following in the early 90's with a three-year stint on the drama series Life Goes On, playing the AIDS sufferer Jesse McKenna. The role also garnered him an Emmy in 1993.

As of the mid-90s, Lowe's film career was undistinguished even as he received good notices in some obscure and quirky low-budget genre features which quickly landed on video shelves. The Norway-lensed "Apprentice to Murder" (1988) paired him with a mystical Donald Sutherland in a brooding period suspenser set in 1928 Pennsylvania. In a lighter vein, "Nobody's Perfect" (1989), a disarming Swiss co-production, found him in drag trying to get close to the college co-ed of his dreams. "Highway to Hell" (1992) found him attempting to rescue his bride (Kristy Swanson) from the forces of darkness and "Siringo" (1995) put him in Western duds as a young deputy. With four indie features in the can for 1997 release, Lowe appeared poised to make a more serious stab at a feature acting career.