Chad Lowe Biography

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 Bedelia played his mother.

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