Post by Tommy on Feb 17, 2008 9:41:58 GMT -5
Role: Lucas Scott on One Tree Hill
Alias Name(s): Chad Murray, CMM
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Buffalo, New York
Birthday: 24/8-1981
Birth Name: Chad Michael Murray
Born in Buffalo, New York, Chad found a ready audience for his talents early on. When he was just 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. 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 Skechers, 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" (1993). Then he got the call he'd been hoping for. The WB's "Gilmore Girls" (2000) 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.
He admires the talents of actors Edward Norton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Al Pacino Robert De Niro and Sean Penn 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, in-line 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. Before he married Sophia Bush on April 16th, 2005, Chad had 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.
Some time ago, Chad and Sophia called it quits after just five months, after he confessed that he'd cheated on her.
Chad has starred and co-starred in many movies and shows. He has been voted as one of the Top Ten Hottest Male Star on VH1.
Role: Nathan Scott on One Tree Hill
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Hemet, California
Birthday: 25/7-1985
James Lafferty was born in raised in Hemet, California. He attended Hemet High School and played basketball for the bulldogs, even earning the MVP award. He has been steadily working since the age of 6 when his mother encouraged him and his brother Stuart to act as a hobby. At age ten, he received his first speaking part, and then later a role on the short lived television series "Emeril" as Emeril Lagasse's son.
James also made guest appearences as Once and Again (as Tad) and Boston Public. He also had a role in the ESPN movie "Season on the Brink", a basketball movie about the Indiana Hoosiers, where he was able to demonstrate his basketball skills. He graduated in 2003 from Hemet High and was enrolled at Cal State Long Beach before he received the role of "Nathan" on the WB Network's new series "One Tree Hill" filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina. Once in University, James plans on majoring in international studies.
His favorite episode of One Tree Hill is 'With Tired Eyes, Tired Minds, Tired Souls, We Slept.' The famous School Shooting episode. This episode was the 16th in Season 3 of OTH.
Role: Peyton Sawyer on One Tree Hill
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Loudoun County, Virginia
Birthday: 01/07-1982
Birth Name: Hilarie Ross Burton
American actress Hilarie Burton was born on July 1, 1982, and she was raised in Sterling, Virginia. She is a graduate of Parkview High School, and she attended New York University and Fordham University. Her first big break came when she worked as a VJ for the television show "Total Request Live" on MTV. Hilarie had a small part on the TV series "Dawson's Creek," and this led to her famous role as Peyton Sawyer on the series "One Tree Hill." She made her feature film debut in "Our Very Own," a comedy set in 1970s Nashville. Hilarie has a cat named after writer Edgar Allen Poe, and her hobbies include collecting antiques, knitting and crocheting.
Best known as one of the principals on the WB's popular drama series One Tree Hill, thesp Hilarie Burton launched herself out of obscurity and into celebrity by winning a national competition. In 2000 - as a student at Fordham University, a Jesuit college in New York - Burton signed up for a TRL contest to interview celebs at the annual MTV Music Video Awards. Because that position reportedly brought with it some disparaging treatment at the hands of obnoxious celebrities, it toughened Burton up; that spunk, when coupled with Burton's genial on-camera presence and photogenic qualities, paved the way for an acting career, doubtless made possible by the exposure of the MTV gig.
One Tree Hill marked Burton's most popular endeavor. She received third billing on that program, as Peyton Sawyer, a gorgeous teenager (not a stretch, that) who feels attracted to the lower-middle-class but warm-hearted local boy Lucas (Chad Michael Murray). Burton remained with the series for three seasons; she then branched off into films on an auspicious note, with a plum role in Cameron Watson's beautifully-crafted, small-town Miramax drama Our Very Own (2005). Following about a year of inactivity, Burton resurfaced in 2007 with several roles; most notably, she worked for Beth Schachter in that director's teen-oriented comedy Normal Adolescent Behavior and for Blair Witch helmer Daniel Myrick in his supernatural thriller Solstice.
Role: Brooke Davis on One Tree Hill
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Birthday: 08/07-1982
Sophia Bush was born July 8, 1982, in Pasadena, Calif. She attended an all-girls high school, participated in theater productions, and was crowned the Pasadena Rose Queen in 2000. She attended The University of Southern California and was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority.
Sophia made her acting debut in 2002's Van Wilder. The following year she appeared in three episode of Nip/Tuck and landed a starring role on One Tree Hill. In April 2005 she married her co-star Chad Michael Murray.
Like a lot of girls born into the upper-middle-class suburb of Pasadena, CA, Sophia Bush caught a whiff of the Hollywood air just down the road and took an interest in acting at an early age. After getting her feet wet in school plays at the Westridge School for Girls, she graduated in 2000 and enrolled at the University of Southern California, where she majored in journalism and minored in theater. It was that minor interest that proved to be her greatest passion, however, and in 2002, at the age of 20, she scored her first movie gig with a small role in National Lamthingy's Van Wilder.
Another onscreen role would follow in 2003, and a much more substantial one. Bush was cast as sassy cheerleader Brooke Davis in the WB series One Tree Hill. She left school to work full-time on the series, which paid off when One Tree Hill proved to be a huge hit. In addition to the professional success that the show brought her, the program also featured Bush's onscreen romance with co-star Chad Michael Murray -- which soon turned into a real-life love affair. The two were wed in 2005, but unfortunately, the union was not to last. After just five months, the two separated and eventually divorced, though they remained co-stars on the series.
She took the personal hit in stride, continuing to act in additional projects such as Supercross: The Movie and the popular 2006 comedy John Tucker Must Die. Bush also proved to have a knack for tense and scary subject matter, from a recurring part on the series Nip/Tuck to a starring role in the 2006 horror flick Stay Alive. In 2007, she appeared in an even bigger horror movie as the female lead in a remake of The Hitcher, starring opposite veteran actor Sean Bean.
While building up her impressive acting resumé, Sophia still didn't lose the interest in journalism that she pursued in college, working as an assignment editor for Annenberg TV News when she wasn't on-set.
Role: Haley James-Scott on One Tree Hill
Alias Name(s): Joy, Joy Lenz, Joyter
Gender: Female
Birthplace: Hollywood, Florida
Birthday: 02/04-1981
Birth Name: Bethany Joy Lenz
Actress and singer Bethany Joy Galeotti was born on April 2, 1981, in Hollywood, Florida, but she moved to Arlington, Texas, at age four. Joy moved to New Jersey when she was eleven, where she appeared in commercials for Eggos waffles and Dr. Pepper, and she soon made her film debut as Linda Halleck in the Stephen King thriller "Thinner."
This led to several guest appearances on the television shows "The Guardian," "Felicity" and "Charmed." The role she is most known for is Haley James-Scott on the CW hit series "One Tree Hill." She has starred as Marni Potts in the sequel to the cheerleading film "Bring It On Again," and she is also an incredible singer, with a four-octave vocal range. In her spare time, she enjoys horseback riding, playing piano and guitar and also writing music.
Bethany Joy Lenz married Micheal Galeotti on December 31, 2005. She took his name, and during Season 3 her credits change to Bethany Joy Galeotti.
