Chad Lowe

Charles Davis Lowe II (born January 15, 1968)^[2] is an American actor and director. He is the younger brother of actor Rob Lowe. He won an Emmy Award for his supporting role in Life Goes On as a young man living with HIV. He has had recurring roles on ER, Melrose Place, and Now and Again. Lowe played Deputy White House Chief of Staff Reed Pollock on the sixth season of 24,^[3] and played Byron Montgomery on Pretty Little Liars.

Chad Lowe
Born	Charles Davis Lowe II[1] (1968-01-15) January 15, 1968 (age 57) Dayton, Ohio, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1984–present
Spouses	Hilary Swank ​ ​ (m. 1997; div. 2007)​ Kim Painter ​ (m. 2010)​
Children	3
Relatives	Rob Lowe (brother) John Owen Lowe (nephew)

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Lowe at the event for 24 in 2001

Early life

Lowe was born in Dayton, Ohio,^[2] the son of Barbara Lynn Wilson (née Hepler; 1939–2003), a teacher, and Charles Davis Lowe, a trial lawyer.^[1] His parents divorced when Lowe was young.^[4] He has an older brother, actor Rob Lowe, and two half brothers from the second marriages of his parents, the producer Micah Dyer (maternal) and Justin Lowe (paternal). Lowe was baptized in the Episcopal Church.^[5] He is of German, English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry.^[6]

Lowe was raised in a "traditional midwestern setting"^[5] in Dayton, attending Oakwood Junior High School, before moving to the Point Dume area of Malibu, California, with his mother and brother. He attended Santa Monica High School, the same high school as fellow actors Holly Robinson Peete, Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Sean Penn, Chris Penn, and Robert Downey Jr..^[4]

Career

Lowe began his acting career in the 1980s when he appeared in a number of television films. Lowe co-starred with Charlie Sheen in the 1984 CBS Television drama Silence of the Heart.^[3] In 1988 he co-starred with Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Urich in the made-for-TV film April Morning, which depicted the battle of Lexington in the American Revolutionary War.^[7] Lowe played the titular character in the short-lived sitcom Spencer, which he left after six episodes.^[8]

From 1991 to 1993, he starred in Life Goes On, for which he received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 1993.^[9]

Lowe had recurring roles on Melrose Place, Popular, Now and Again, and ER, and guest-starring roles on Touched by an Angel, Superman, CSI: Miami and Medium.^[3] Lowe's feature film appearances have included roles in Nobody's Perfect, True Blood, Quiet Days in Hollywood, Floating, and Unfaithful.^[3] In 2000, he portrayed iconic singer John Denver in the television film Take Me Home. That year he also wrote and directed the short film The Audition.^[10] Lowe made his feature film directorial debut in 2007 with Beautiful Ohio.^[3] Lowe has directed episodes of Bones, Brothers and Sisters, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Hack, Without a Trace, and Pretty Little Liars.^[3]

In April 2010, Lowe replaced Alexis Denisof as Aria's father, Byron Montgomery, in Pretty Little Liars.^[11]

Personal life

While filming Quiet Days in Hollywood, Lowe met actress Hilary Swank. They married on September 28, 1997.^[12] On January 9, 2006, Lowe and Swank announced their separation,^[12] and in May 2006, they announced their intention to divorce.^[13] The divorce was finalized on November 1, 2007.^[14] Swank infamously forgot to thank Lowe during her acceptance speech after winning her first Academy Award in 2000 (for Boys Don't Cry).^[15] Upon winning her second Oscar in 2005, for Million Dollar Baby, Lowe was the first person she thanked.^[16]

On January 19, 2007, a representative announced that Lowe was dating producer Kim Painter.^[17] Lowe and Painter's daughter was born on May 16, 2009.^[18] Lowe and Painter were married on August 28, 2010, in a small ceremony in Los Angeles.^[19] They welcomed their second daughter on November 15, 2012.^[20] Their third daughter was born on March 18, 2016.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Oxford Blues	Computer Hacker	Uncredited
1988	Apprentice to Murder	Billy Kelly
1989	True Blood	Donny Trueblood
1990	Nobody's Perfect	Stephen/Stephanie
1992	Highway to Hell	Charlie Sykes
1996	Driven	LeGrand
1997	Floating	Doug
	Trading Favors	Marty
	Quiet Days in Hollywood	Richard
	The Others	VTV Director
1998	Suicide, the Comedy	J.J.
2000	The Audition	Uncredited	Short film
2001	Your Guardian	Parker Smith
2002	Unfaithful	Bill Stone
	The Space Between	Ticket Man	Short film
2003	Red Betsy	Orin Sanders
2014	California Scheming	Mr. Behrle
2015	Entourage	Chad Lowe
2019	7 Days to Vegas	Sheriff

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac	Al Hamilton	Television film
	Silence of the Heart	Skip Lewis	Television film
1984–1985	Spencer	Spencer Winger	Series regular; 7 episodes
1986	There Must Be a Pony	Josh Sydney	Television film
1988	April Morning	Adam Cooper	Television film
	CBS Schoolbreak Special	Michael Wells	Episode: "No Means No"
1990	So Proudly We Hail	Billy Kincaid	Television film
1991	Captive	Jeff Frost	Television film
	An Inconvenient Woman	Kippie Petworth	Miniseries; 2 episodes
1991–1993	Life Goes On	Jesse McKenna	Series regular; 35 episodes
1993	Candles in the Dark	Jaan Toome	Television film
1995	Fighting for My Daughter	Eric	Television film
	Siringo	Winton Powell	Television film
	The Show Formerly Known as the Martin Short Show	Rob "That's Right" Tarda	Television film
	Dare to Love	Stephen	Television film
	Snowy River: The McGregor Saga	Sam Taylor	2 episodes
1996	ABC Afterschool Specials	Roger	Episode: "Me and My Hormones"
1996–1997	Melrose Place	Carter Gallavan	Recurring role; 8 episodes
1997	In the Presence of Mine Enemies	Sergeant Lott	Television film
	The Hunger	Neville	Episode: "A Matter of Style"
1997–2005	ER	Dr. George Henry	4 episodes
1998	Target Earth	Commander Fauk, Alien Chief	Television film
	Poltergeist: The Legacy	Josh Miller	Episode: "The Covenant"
	Touched by an Angel	Arthur Bowers	Episode: "Miles to Go Before I Sleep"
	Superman: The Animated Series	Cosmic Boy	Voice, episode: "New Kids in Town"[21]
1999	The Apartment Complex	Stan Warden	Television film
	Popular	Luke Grant	4 episodes
1999–2000	Now and Again	Craig Spence	4 episodes
	The Wild Thornberrys	Buck the Ibex, Barking Deer #1	Voice, 2 episodes[21]
2000	Take Me Home: The John Denver Story	John Denver	Television film
2001	Acceptable Risk	Edward Welles	Television film
	The Zeta Project	Wade Pennington	Voice, episode: "Crime Waves"[21]
	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Jason Mayberry	Episode: "Pique"
	Night Visions	Andy Harris	Episode: "Hate Puppet
2003	Hack	Jimmy Scanlon	Episode: "Brothers in Arms"
	CSI: Miami	Scott Mandeville	Episode: "Blood Brothers"
2004	Without a Trace	Lawrence Pierce	Episode: "Upstairs Downstairs"
2005	Medium	David Call	Episode: "Being Mrs. O'Leary's Cow"
	Fielder's Choice	Philip	Television film
2007	24	Reed Pollock	Recurring role; 8 episodes
2009	Bones	Brandon Casey	Episode: "The Doctor in the Den"
	Ghost Whisperer	Nathan Weiss	Episode: "Cause for Alarm"
2010	Drop Dead Diva	Daniel Porter	Episode: "Back from the Dead"
2010–2017	Pretty Little Liars	Byron Montgomery	Main role (seasons 1-3) Special guest star (seasons 4-7); 52 episodes[22]
2011–2013; 2019	Young Justice	Captain Marvel	Voice, 5 episodes[21]
2016	Rizzoli & Isles	Charlie Douglas	Episode: "Murderjuana"
2017–2018; 2020	Supergirl	Thomas Coville	8 episodes[23]
2018	Hailey Dean Mystery: 2+2=Murder	Clyde Bennett	Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Television Movie[24][25][26]
	Hailey Dean Mystery: A Will to Kill
2019	Hell's Kitchen	Himself	Episode: "Poor Trev"
2022–2023	9-1-1: Lone Star	Robert Strand	5 episodes

Director

Year	Title	Notes
2000	The Audition	Directorial debut; short film
2002	The Space Between	Short film
2003	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Episode: "Soulless"
2004	Hack	Episode: "Extreme Commerce"
2006	Beautiful Ohio	Feature film
2007–2015	Bones	13 episodes
2008–2010	Brothers & Sisters	2 episodes
2011–2017	Pretty Little Liars	15 episodes
2014	Twisted	Episode: "Danny Indemnity"
2015	Rizzoli & Isles	Episode: "Bassholes"
2015–2018	Life in Pieces	6 episodes
2016	The Grinder	Episode: "Delusions of Grinder"
	Stitchers	Episode: "Red Eye"
	Notorious	Episode: "Chase"
2017	American Housewife	Episode: "The Snowstorm"
	Supergirl	2 episodes[27]
2018	Light as a Feather	2 episodes
2019; 2024	9-1-1	Episodes: "The Searchers", "Buck, Bothered and Bewildered", "Confessions"
2019–2023	The Flash	4 episodes
2019	High School Musical: The Musical: The Series	Episode: "Blocking"
2021–2024	9-1-1: Lone Star	6 episodes
2021	Titans	Episode: "Purple Rain"
2023	Found	Episode: "Missing While Homeless"

Producer

Year	Title	Notes
2005	Celebrity Charades	Executive producer
2006	Beautiful Ohio	Producer

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Title	Results
1989	Daytime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Performer in a Children's Special	CBS Schoolbreak Special	Nominated
1993	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	Life Goes On	Won
	Viewers for Quality Television	Best Supporting Actor in a Quality Drama Series		Won
2007	Sarasota Film Festival	Debut Director	Beautiful Ohio	Won
2021	Garden State Film Festival	Best Ensemble (Feature)	7 Days to Vegas	Won