CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY

Born in Buffalo, New York, Chad found a ready audience early on. When he was four or five years old, the young ham performed skits and sang made-up songs for his large family which includes three brothers, a half-brother and a sister. At age fifteen, a high school football injury landed him in a hospital where a nurse encouraged him to pursue a modeling career.

Two years later, Chad won a scholarship from a modeling agency in Buffalo to attend a modeling convention in Orlando. There he met his destiny when an agent from Los Angeles spotted him and persuaded the seventeen-year-old to pursue his dream of acting after graduation from high school.

In 1999, the aspiring actor headed for Hollywood where he supported himself modeling for such clients as Sketchers, Tommy Hilfiger, and Gucci while looking for a break. Soon after he arrived, Chad appeared in several guest-starring television roles including an episode of "Diagnosis Murder" (1993). Then he got the call he'd been hoping for. The WB's "Gilmore Girls" (2000) was casting for the role of Tristan DuGrey. They were looking for someone who was likable and charismatic but with an edgy side, and someone who had that certain "IT" quality. Chad was all that plus he had the perfect physical characteristics that the show's writers had in mind. The teenager won the role and has since made the character his own.

He admires the talents of actors Edward Norton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro and uses their influences in his work. Always a firm believer in clean living, Chad is a natural athlete. He played his favorite sport, football, in high school and keeps fit by working out at the gym, in-line skating, playing soccer, volleyball and basketball as well as football pick-up games. He is an anti-drug role model for kids and is active in charities for children and teens during his spare time. Before he married Sophia Bush on April 16th, 2005, Chad had set up house with a pug named Gus and a unique boisterous cat named Jack, who keep him from missing his large family too much.

FILMOGRAPHY

Stealing Cars (2006)
House of Wax (2005) - Nick Jones
A Cinderella Story (2004) - Austin
Freaky Friday (2003) - Jake
The Lone Ranger (2003) - The Lone Ranger/Luke Hartman
Megiddo: The Omega Code 2 (2001) - David Alexander
Aftermath (2001) (TV) - Sean

2003-2005
"One Tree Hill" - Lucas Scott
2002
CSI - Tom Haviland - The Accused Is Entitled
Dawson's Creek - Charlie Todd - Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
Dawson's Creek - Charlie Todd - 100 Light Years From Home
Dawson's Creek - Charlie Todd - Cigarette Burns
Dawson's Creek - Charlie Todd - Highway To Hell
Dawson's Creek - Charlie Todd - Guerilla Filmmaking
Dawson's Creek - Charlie Todd - Something Wild
2001
Dawson's Creek - Charlie Todd - Appetite for Destruction
Dawson's Creek - Charlie Todd - High Anxiety
Dawson's Creek - Charlie Todd - Use Your Disillusion
Dawson's Creek - Charlie Todd - Capeside Revisited
Dawson's Creek - Charlie Todd - Lost Weekend
Dawson's Creek - Charlie Todd - The Bostonians
Gilmore Girls - Tristan DuGray - Run Away, Little Boy
Gilmore Girls - Tristan DuGray - Love, Daisies and Troubadours
Gilmore Girls - Tristan DuGray - The Third Lorelai
Gilmore Girls - Tristan DuGray - The Breakup, Part 2
Gilmore Girls - Tristan DuGray - Star-Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers
Gilmore Girls - Tristan DuGray - Concert Interruptus
Gilmore Girls - Tristan DuGray - Paris is Burning
2000
Gilmore Girls - Tristan DuGray - Rory's Dance
Gilmore Girls - Tristan DuGray - Rory's Birthday Parties
Gilmore Girls - Tristan DuGray - The Deer Hunters
Gilmore Girls - Tristan DuGray - The Lorelais' First Day at Chilton
Diagnosis Murder - Ray - The Cradle Will Rock
Undressed - Dan - Episode 217

LINKS

Chad MM Fanlisting (approved by TFL.org)
ChadMM Net (pictures)