Chad Michael Murray

Profile
Name: Chad Michael Murray
Birth Name: Chad Michael Murray
Height: 6'
Sex: M
Nationality: American
Birth Date: August 24, 1981
Birth Place: Buffalo, New York, USA
Profession: actor, former model fashion
Education: Clarence High School in New York (graduated in 1999)
Husband/Wife: Sophia Bush (actress; born on July 8, 1982; married on April 16, 2005 at the Casa del Mar Hotel in Santa Monica; separated September 26, 2005; divorced on December 29, 2006)
Relationship: Kenzie Dalton (an extra on 'One Tree Hill'; began dating since December 2005; engaged on April 4, 2006)
Sister: Shannon Page Murray
Brother: Rex Murray, Nick Murray, Brandon Murray
Half Brother: Tyler Murray
Claim to fame: as Tristan DuGrey on the WB's Gilmore Girls (2000-2001)

Biography
Born in Buffalo, New York, Chad when four or five years old, 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." Then 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. Chad Michael Murray stars as Hilary Duff's cyber love interest, Austin Ames, in A Cinderella Story. He currently stars on The WB's One Tree Hill as Lucas Scott, a brooding intellectual whose skills on the basketball court are matched only by his growing attraction to the beautiful girlfriend of his half-brother. Murray's previous television roles included playing the love interest for Katie Holmes and Michelle Williams on Dawson's Creek and Rory's overconfident classmate on Gilmore Girls. Other television credits include Aftermath with Meredith Baxter Birney and Robert Ulrich, and the title role in The WB's The Lone Ranger. Chad's upcoming projects include the lead in Joel Silver's House Of Wax, opposite Elisha Cuthbert, currently in production. He recently co-starred in the critically acclaimed remake of Freaky Friday opposite Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan. He admires the talents of actors Ed Norton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Al Pacino and Robert DiNiro 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, inline 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. Still very single, Chad has 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
2006 Home of the Brave
2005 House of Wax
2004 One Tree Hill: Season 02
2004 A Cinderella Story
2003 One Tree Hill [TV Series]
2003 One Tree Hill: Season 01
2003 Freaky Friday
2003 The Lone Ranger
2002 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation - The Accused Is Entitled
2001 Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
2000 Gilmore Girls: Season 01

Trivia

Denies reports his 18-year-old fiancee Kenzie Dalton is pregnant, insisting the couple are getting married because they are in love. (April 15, 2006)

Reportedly engaged to Kenzie Dalton, 18, an extra on hit show One Tree Hill. (April 5, 2006)

Is reportedly now dating One Tree Hill costar Kenzie Dalton, 18, who plays a cheerleader on the teen drama. (March 24, 2006)

Murray and Sophia Bush separated after just five months of marriage. (September 29, 2005)

Murray and his wife Sophia Bush are planning a second honeymoon because they only got four days to enjoy married life after wedding. (April 28, 2005)

Is engaged to Sophia Bush. (July 16, 2004)

At age fifteen, a high school football injury landed him in a hospital where a nurse encouraged him to pursue a modeling career.

He is an anti-drug role model for kids and is active in charities for children and teens during his spare time.

In 1999, he headed for Hollywood where he supported himself modeling for such clients as Sketchers, Tommy Hilfiger, and Gucci while looking for a break.

He admires the talents of actors Ed Norton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Al Pacino and Robert DiNiro and uses their influences in his work.

Always a firm believer in clean living, Chad is a natural athlete.

Eye Color: Blue

Hair Color: Blonde

Sport: Football

Favorite Movies: GLADIATOR, FIGHT CLUB, VARSITY BLUES, and ANY GIVEN SUNDAY

Favorite TV Shows: SIMPSONS, FEAR FACTOR

Favorite Book: Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

Favorite Bands: Incubus, Dave Matthews Band

Inspirations: His father, Robert DeNiro, Ed Norton

Worked as both a donut shop janitor and a receptionist for a limousine company

Kat Dennings says this of Chad: My ideal prom date would be Chad Michael Murray.

Has a pug named Gus and a unique boisterous cat named Jack.

Hobbies: American football, inline skating, soccer, volleyball, basketball

Favorite Food: Spaghetti with sausage or chicken with french fries

Bad habit: Putting my foot in my mouth - when I talk sometimes I say stuff I don't mean.. usually very stupid things.

Admits he eats way too much sugar and junk food

Dream Girl: A girl who is sweet, supportive, with a great personality; a girl who can talk, and who can listen; can enjoy doing nothing sometimes; a smart girl.

Was picked on as a young child by bullies :'(

Says he identifies with Pacey, from Dawson's Creek, the most

Once modeled for Tommy Hilfiger, Gucci and Sketchers

His favorite gift from a girl is the necklace he's always wearing in pictures

Got an accidental 'nose job' during his earlier modeling career! He was 'jumped' in a fast food restaurant and got his nose broken and had to have surgery. If you look closely, you can see the difference between his nose now and back then, because he had to get it fixed and it couldn't be constructed to the way it was.

Had his small intestine removed as the result of a football injury, so he can't gain weight.

Sometimes Credited As: Chad Murray

His father works as an air traffic controller.

His mother abandoned his family when he was just 10 years old.