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Charles “Chad” Lowe (born January 15, 1968) is an American television actor, and the younger brother of actor Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe

Robert Hepler Lowe is an United States actor. He became famous after appearing in popular 1980s movies such as The Outsiders and St. Elmo's Fire , which included other members of the Brat Pack ....
. He won an Emmy Award for his starring role in Life Goes On
Life Goes On (TV series)

Life Goes On is a television series that aired on American Broadcasting Company from September 12, 1989 to May 23, 1993. The show centers around the Thatchers, a family living in suburban Chicago....
 as a man suffering with HIV
HIV

Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that can lead to AIDS , a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections....
. He has also had recurring roles on ER
ER (TV series)

ER is an Emmy Award-winning Television in the United States medical drama television series created by the late novelist Michael Crichton and airing on NBC....
, Melrose Place
Melrose Place

Melrose Place is an American primetime soap opera that ran between 1992 and 1999, created by Darren Star for the FOX network and executive produced by Aaron Spelling for Spelling Television....
, and Now and Again
Now and Again

Now and Again was an American television series which aired in the US from September 24, 1999 until May 5, 2000 on CBS. The story revolves around the United States government engineering the perfect human body for use in espionage, but not being able to yet perfect the brain....
. He is perhaps best known for his role as Deputy White House Chief of Staff
Deputy White House Chief of Staff

The Deputy White House Chief of Staff is officially the top aide to the White House Chief of Staff, who is the senior aide to the President of the United States....
 Reed Pollock on the sixth season of 24
24 (TV series)

24 is an United States serial action drama television series. Broadcast by Fox Broadcasting Company in the United States and syndicated worldwide, the show first aired on November 6, 2001, with an initial 13 episodes ....
.

began his acting career in his teens, co-starring with Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones

'Tommy Lee Jones' is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, Screen Actors Guild- and Emmy Award-winning United States actor and film director. He is perhaps best known for his appearances as Samuel Gerard in The Fugitive and U.S....
 and Robert Urich
Robert Urich

'Robert Urich' was an actor, best known for playing private investigators on the television program Spenser: For Hire and Vega$ . He also starred in numerous other television series over the years including: S.W.A.T....
 in the 1987 made-for-TV
Television movie

A television movie is a feature film that is produced for and originally distributed by a television network....
 film April Morning, which depicted the battle of Lexington in the American Revolutionary War
American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War , also known as the American War of Independence, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and Thirteen Colonies on the North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers....
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Charles “Chad” Lowe (born January 15, 1968) is an American television actor, and the younger brother of actor Rob Lowe
Rob Lowe

Robert Hepler Lowe is an United States actor. He became famous after appearing in popular 1980s movies such as The Outsiders and St. Elmo's Fire , which included other members of the Brat Pack ....
. He won an Emmy Award for his starring role in Life Goes On
Life Goes On (TV series)

Life Goes On is a television series that aired on American Broadcasting Company from September 12, 1989 to May 23, 1993. The show centers around the Thatchers, a family living in suburban Chicago....
 as a man suffering with HIV
HIV

Human immunodeficiency virus is a lentivirus that can lead to AIDS , a condition in humans in which the immune system begins to fail, leading to life-threatening opportunistic infections....
. He has also had recurring roles on ER
ER (TV series)

ER is an Emmy Award-winning Television in the United States medical drama television series created by the late novelist Michael Crichton and airing on NBC....
, Melrose Place
Melrose Place

Melrose Place is an American primetime soap opera that ran between 1992 and 1999, created by Darren Star for the FOX network and executive produced by Aaron Spelling for Spelling Television....
, and Now and Again
Now and Again

Now and Again was an American television series which aired in the US from September 24, 1999 until May 5, 2000 on CBS. The story revolves around the United States government engineering the perfect human body for use in espionage, but not being able to yet perfect the brain....
. He is perhaps best known for his role as Deputy White House Chief of Staff
Deputy White House Chief of Staff

The Deputy White House Chief of Staff is officially the top aide to the White House Chief of Staff, who is the senior aide to the President of the United States....
 Reed Pollock on the sixth season of 24
24 (TV series)

24 is an United States serial action drama television series. Broadcast by Fox Broadcasting Company in the United States and syndicated worldwide, the show first aired on November 6, 2001, with an initial 13 episodes ....
.

Biography


Career

Lowe began his acting career in his teens, co-starring with Tommy Lee Jones
Tommy Lee Jones

'Tommy Lee Jones' is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, Screen Actors Guild- and Emmy Award-winning United States actor and film director. He is perhaps best known for his appearances as Samuel Gerard in The Fugitive and U.S....
 and Robert Urich
Robert Urich

'Robert Urich' was an actor, best known for playing private investigators on the television program Spenser: For Hire and Vega$ . He also starred in numerous other television series over the years including: S.W.A.T....
 in the 1987 made-for-TV
Television movie

A television movie is a feature film that is produced for and originally distributed by a television network....
 film April Morning, which depicted the battle of Lexington in the American Revolutionary War
American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War , also known as the American War of Independence, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and Thirteen Colonies on the North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers....
. Lowe made his directorial debut in 2000, with the short film The Audition
The Audition (short film)

The Audition is a 2000 in film short film written and directed by Chad Lowe. It features his then wife Hilary Swank. The film was Lowe's directorial debut....
. He also directed Beautiful Ohio
Beautiful Ohio (film)

Beautiful Ohio is a 2006 in film American film, directed by Chad Lowe and starring William Hurt, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Julianna Margulies....
, which was released in 2007.

Personal life

Lowe was born in Dayton, Ohio
Dayton, Ohio

Dayton is a city in and the county seat of Montgomery County, Ohio, Ohio, United States, in the southwestern part of the state. The population was 166,179 at the United States Census, 2000....
, the son of Barbara (née
Married and maiden names

A married name is the family name adopted by a person upon marriage, and in speaking of the many cultures where the practice is traditional for women, the maiden name is the family name that the married name replaces....
 Hepler), a teacher, and Chuck Lowe, a lawyer. He was married to actress Hilary Swank
Hilary Swank

Hilary Ann Swank is an United States actress. Her Hollywood film career began with a small part in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and then a major part in The Next Karate Kid , where she played Julie Pierce, the first female prot?g? of the sensei Mr....
 between 1997 and 2006. Swank infamously forgot to thank Lowe during her acceptance speech after winning her first Academy Award in 2000 (for Boys Don't Cry
Boys Don't Cry (film)

Boys Don't Cry is a 1999 in film independent film drama film based on the real-life story of Brandon Teena, a transman who was raped and murdered on December 31, 1993 by his male friends after they found out he had vagina....
), and she spent nearly every public appearance afterward making up for it. Upon winning her second Oscar in 2005 for Million Dollar Baby
Million Dollar Baby

Million Dollar Baby is a 2004 in film film film director, co-produced and scored by Clint Eastwood and starring Eastwood, Hilary Swank, and Morgan Freeman....
, Lowe was the first person she thanked. On January 9, 2006, Lowe and Swank announced their separation, and in May of the same year, they announced their intention to divorce. Their divorce was finalized later that year, as discussed by Lowe during his January 24, 2007 interview on Larry King Live. On January 19, 2007, his rep announced that Lowe is dating producer Kim Painter. On January 29th, 2009, it was announced that they are expecting their first child in early summer 2009.

Filmography

  • Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac (1984)
  • Spencer (1985)
  • April Morning (1987)
  • Apprentice to Murder (1988)
  • Nobody's Perfect (1989)
  • An Inconvenient Woman
    An Inconvenient Woman

    An Inconvenient Woman is a 1990 in literature novel by Dominick Dunne. Its plot centers on the affair between married Jules Mendelson, an extremely influential member of Los Angeles Upper class, and Flo March, a diner waitress and aspiring actress whose life is transformed by the illicit relationship until she finds herself the inconvenie...
     (1991)
  • Highway to Hell
    Highway to Hell (film)

    Highway to Hell is a 1992 in film horror comedy film directed by Ate de Jong starring Chad Lowe and Kristy Swanson. Charlie Sykes and his girlfriend Rachel Clark run away to Las Vegas, Nevada to get married....
     (1992)
  • Life Goes On
    Life Goes On (TV series)

    Life Goes On is a television series that aired on American Broadcasting Company from September 12, 1989 to May 23, 1993. The show centers around the Thatchers, a family living in suburban Chicago....
     (1991-1993)
  • Snowy River: The McGregor Saga
    The Man From Snowy River (TV series)

    The Man from Snowy River is an Australian television series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River ". Released in Australia as Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River, the series was subsequently released in the United States as Snowy River: The McGregor Saga....
     (1995)
  • Melrose Place
    Melrose Place

    Melrose Place is an American primetime soap opera that ran between 1992 and 1999, created by Darren Star for the FOX network and executive produced by Aaron Spelling for Spelling Television....
     (1996-1997)
  • Superman: The Animated Series
    Superman: The Animated Series

    Superman: The Animated Series is the unofficial title of a Warner Bros.' United States List of animated television series that ran from 1996 to 2000....
     (1998)
  • Popular
    Popular (TV series)

    Popular is a adolescence comedy-drama on The WB Television Network in the United States, created by Ryan Murphy and Gina Matthews, starring Leslie Bibb and Carly Pope as two teenage girls that reside on polar opposite sides of the popularity spectrum at their high school, but are forced to co-exist when their single parents randomly meet...
     (1999)
  • Floating (1999)
  • The Apartment Complex
    The Apartment Complex

    The Apartment Complex is a 1999 in film television film directed by Tobe Hooper. In this movie, a man named Stan becomes the manager of an apartment complex with strange tenants after the previous manager disappeared under mysterious circumstances....
     (1999)
  • Now and Again
    Now and Again

    Now and Again was an American television series which aired in the US from September 24, 1999 until May 5, 2000 on CBS. The story revolves around the United States government engineering the perfect human body for use in espionage, but not being able to yet perfect the brain....
     (1999-2000)
  • The Wild Thornberries (1999-2000)
  • Take Me Home: The John Denver Story (2000)
  • The Audition
    The Audition (short film)

    The Audition is a 2000 in film short film written and directed by Chad Lowe. It features his then wife Hilary Swank. The film was Lowe's directorial debut....
     (2000)
  • Acceptable Risk (2001)
  • Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

    Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an American drama television program about the Special Victims Unit in a fictional version of the 16th Precinct of the New York City Police Department....
     (2001)
  • Star Trek: Enterprise
    Star Trek: Enterprise

    Enterprise, retitled Star Trek: Enterprise at the start of its third season, was a science fiction television program created by Brannon Braga and Rick Berman and set in the Star Trek universe created by Gene Roddenberry....
     (2001)
  • Unfaithful
    Unfaithful (film)

    Unfaithful is a 2002 in film Cinema of the United States sex in film drama film directed by Adrian Lyne, and adapted by Alvin Sargent and William Broyles Jr....
     (2002)
  • Hack
    Hack (TV series)

    Hack is a television series that aired on the CBS television network from 2002 to 2004. The show also aired in the UK on ITV3 and in Australia on Network Ten....
     (2002)
  • The Space Between (2002)
  • CSI: Miami
    CSI: Miami

    CSI: Miami is a Spin-off of the CBS network series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. The series is an American crime drama television series that trails the investigations of a team of Miami-Dade forensic scientists as they unveil the circumstances behind mysterious and unusual deaths and other crimes....
     (2003)
  • Without a Trace
    Without a Trace

    Without a Trace is an United States television program set in New York City. The show is about a fictitious full-time Federal Bureau of Investigation missing persons unit....
     (2004)
  • Fielder's Choice (2004)
  • ER
    ER (TV series)

    ER is an Emmy Award-winning Television in the United States medical drama television series created by the late novelist Michael Crichton and airing on NBC....
     (1997,2005)
  • Medium
    Medium (TV series)

    Medium is an American supernatural and dramatic television series which premiered on NBC on January 3, 2005. The series is about Allison DuBois who acts as a research medium for the Phoenix, Arizona, district attorney's office....
     (2005)
  • 24
    24 (TV series)

    24 is an United States serial action drama television series. Broadcast by Fox Broadcasting Company in the United States and syndicated worldwide, the show first aired on November 6, 2001, with an initial 13 episodes ....
     (2007)
  • Beautiful Ohio
    Beautiful Ohio (film)

    Beautiful Ohio is a 2006 in film American film, directed by Chad Lowe and starring William Hurt, Michelle Trachtenberg, and Julianna Margulies....
     (2007)


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