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While every bit as handsome as his more famous older brother, Chad Lowe has
resisted becoming a standard issue teen idol, opting for a more
unconventional career. In his relatively small body of work on stage, screen
and TV, the compact, slender, green-blue eyed blond has conveyed an
impressive seriousness and gravity that belies his pretty boy looks. As a
frustrated 15-year-old, Lowe was encouraged to "pursue acting not only as a
profession but as a way of life" by family friend Martin Sheen.
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He soon acquired an agent and landed his first acting job--a role in the TV-movie
docudrama "Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac" (NBC, 1994)--just before his
16th birthday. Lowe acquitted himself well as the teen suicide son of
Mariette Hartley and best friend of Charlie Sheen (in his telefilm debut) in
the superior TV-movie "Silence of the Heart" (CBS, 1984). He also made his
uncredited screen debut playing a computer hacker in a scene with his
brother Rob in the college sports drama "Oxford Blues" (1984).
Lowe received his first major showcase as the star of the engaging teen
sitcom "Spencer" (NBC, 1984-85) playing an eccentric, discontented and lusty
16-year-old high school student. Supported by veteran character players and
lively if unambitious scripts, the young actor made a memorable impression.
He departed the series after a mere six episodes either due to a salary
dispute or creative differences (depending upon the source). Lowe
subsequently focused on improving his craft with an acting coach and stage
work. He returned to TV to play the estranged son of Elizabeth Taylor's
emotionally fragile faded actress on the comeback trail in the TV-movie
version of "There Must Be a Pony" (ABC, 1986). Lowe later co-starred with
Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Urich in "April Morning" (CBS, 1988), a period
coming-of-age drama set on the eve of the American Revolution, on the "Hallmark
Hall of Fame". He next starred in "No Means No" (CBS, 1988), an award-winning
presentation of "CBS Schoolbreak Specials", about date rape in which Bonnie
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