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Born in Buffalo, New York, Chad Murray found an eager 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. He admits to being picked on as a young child by neighborhood bullies. At age fifteen at Clarence High School, a football injury landed him in a hospital. Fortunately a nurse there 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, Florida. 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.  Before Chad become an actor, it is reported that he worked as both a donut shop janitor and a receptionist for a limousine companyIn 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 television guest roles including an episode of "Diagnosis Murder." Soon he got the call he'd been hoping for. The WB's "Gilmore Girls" 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. Murray was featured in another recurring role, playing Charlie, a baby-faced bad boy rocker on "Dawson's Creek" (2001-2002.) His smirking take on the cocky but charming character (aided by some steamy and semi-naked scenes) earned the actor the attention of older viewers as well as his loyal teen following. He graduated to his own teen-angst drama, cast as the co-lead alongside James Lafferty in the series "One Tree Hill" (2003 - ) as two disparate teens who discover they are secretly half-brothers, with Murray well-cast as the brooding loner from the wrong side of the tracks. He also was cast as the love interests of the reigning teen queens of the day, playing Lindsay Lohan's motorcycle-riding crush in the mother-daughter body-swapping hit comedy "Freaky Friday" (2003) and Hilary Duff's modern-day version of Prince Charming in "A Cinderella Story" (2004), a silly retelling of the classic rags-to-riches tale. Murray then appeared in a poor remake of “House of Wax” (2005.)
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His confessed worst habit is "Putting my foot in my mouth" - when I talk sometimes I say stuff I don't mean - usually very stupid things. He is most comfortable on weekends in jeans, sleeveless shirts, t-shirts and jean jackets. 
Chad Michael Murray