Chad Allen & Chad Allen Online

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  • Chad Allen & Chad Allen Online

  • 35 / Male
  • Los Angeles, California, US

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About me:

This page is run by Chad's webmaster for Chad Allen Online: the official fan site. Chad does pop in on occassion.


Born June 5, 1974 in Cerritos, California, Chad Allen, whose full name is Chad Allen Lazzari, grew up in Long Beach, CA. He's the youngest of four boys, and his parents were hoping for a girl. They got one, in the shape of Chad's twin sister, Charity. Chad was the "extra change", as he puts it.
 
Chad got his start in show business when his mother started entering him and his twin sister Charity in "twin contests" at fairs, and they won quite a few times. People kept telling his mother how cute the twins looked together, and that she should try to get the them into acting.
 
Charity didn't much like show business at all, but Chad was bitten by the acting bug. It was decided that Chad Lazzari sounded like a name for a dark-haired Italian, not a blond, blue-eyed boy, and he started out on his acting career as Chad Allen instead. His first job was in a McDonalds television commercial, at age four. His first dramatic work came at age six, in a pilot for a television series that never went into production, Cutter to Houston.

 
His first big break in a television series happened when he was eight and joined the cast of

"St. Elsewhere" as Tommy Westphall, an autistic boy. He played that character literally until the very end, when he was the last actor on-screen in the final scene of the final episode of St. Elsewhere in 1988. During that period, he worked continuously (and sometimes simultaneously) on a succession of other successful TV shows: Webster (1985-1986), Our House (1986-1988) and My Two Dads (1989-1990).
 
Chad filled his "spare time" by guest-starring in a whole host of other television shows, such as
Airwolf, Hunter, The Wonder Years, Star Trek: The Next Generation, In the Heat of the Night, Highway to Heaven, Simon and Simon, and appeared in ten television movies. He also appeared in several stage productions, as a guest on TV game shows and in a series of public service anti-drug programs.
 
During these years, he became one of the biggest and most popular teen idols of the day, thanks to, as he later said, "a mega publicist, who put out an image of me that seemed ideal." He couldn't go anywhere in public without being pursued by his numerous fans. As Chad later put it, "It was difficult going to the malls, or trying to do the things I wanted to do. I felt bad in that the teen magazines portrayed me as a perfect teenager." Elsewhere he commented, "I was in teen magazines all the time and in reality, what was I? A 13-year-old who's as fucked up as every other 13-year-old across the country."

By the time My Two Dads ended in 1990, Chad was unsure about whether he wanted to go on with acting. He was 16 years old, and even though he had gone to a normal primary school, he hadn't been to a regular school since age 12, instead being taught by private tutors on the set. He felt he was missing out on a lot of normal life. "I left the business, went back to high school, joined the swim team, became vice-president of my class, did everything. I tried to be a normal teenager." He now describes it as "probably one of the best decisions I ever made", even though his fame initially made life difficult for him in school. "In high school I was sneered at a lot. I was the teen magazine guy, half the kids followed me around like disciples and the other half were going to kick my ass".
 
After high school, Chad was accepted as a student at New York University, however he decided to put off college when he was offered the part of Matthew Cooper on
Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman. With this new role he became one of the few former child stars to successfully make the transition to a career as an adult.

 
When Dr. Quinn was canceled after its sixth season, Chad said, "When we shut down I wasn't so sure that we were going to come back, I wasn't so sure I was wanting to come back. In six years, we had done ten months out of every year -- which is a lot of work -- in a remote location with a lot of dirt. But over the course of our hiatus everybody had been planning on it. They'd been writing scripts and stuff. So it was just a surprise. I'll miss the people. It was a fun part for me.
I had a great damn time. We put so much into it for so long, and to not have the opportunity, as actors, to say good-bye to each other has been really gut wrenching. And to not be able to say good-bye to the fans has been hard, too."
 
Despite being busy on Dr. Quinn, Chad was one of the co-founders of The Creative Outlet theater company in 1995, and has appeared in several theater productions during the summer breaks. He considers theater to be "my first love, without a doubt".
 
Chad has continued focusing his career on the theater since the end of Dr. Quinn, appearing in well received theatrical productions of

*Change at Babylon, in Los Angeles, Temporary Help, in Seattle and Westport, Connecticut and Sons of Lincoln, in L.A.
 
Courageously, in the October 9, 2001 issue of The Advocate, Chad came out as a gay man. He also acknowledged past problems with drugs and alcohol.

He also has spoken to a number of groups and at events about gay rights issues including taking part in a forum on Larry King Live on the issue of gay marriage.


 
He has also lent his support to a large number of charities over the years, including The American Diabetes Association, The March of Dimes, Project Angel Food, the Autistic Children's Foundation, the American Cancer Society, the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund, AIDS Project Arizona, and AIDS Project Los Angeles.

In 2001, the same year as he came out in the Advocate issue, Chad proved to all the critics that said he would have a hard time finding work as actor wrong. Three movies followed that year A Mother’s Testimony (co-starring with Kate Jackson) the horror movie .. Do You Wanna Know a Secret.. and the critical acclaimed independent movie What Matters Most. The latter one earning him several nominations in the best actor category. ..

In addition to the movies he made that year he also stepped back on stage in two theatre productions; Mike Ambrose's play Dearboy’s War – which addressed the treatment of gay soldiers and the meaning of freedom and the controversial Corpus Christi in which he starred and produced for it’s Los Angeles premiere.

Who I'd like to meet:

Details

  • Status: In a Relationship
  • Here for: Networking, Friends
  • Hometown: Los Angeles
  • Orientation: Gay
  • Body type: 5' 6" / Athletic
  • Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
  • Zodiac Sign: Gemini
  • Education: College graduate
  • Occupation: Actor/Producer

Interests

  • General


    Crystal Meth Use Prevention
    Depression
    Gay Rights
    HIV/AIDS Prevention
    Team Lazzari
    AIDS Lifecycle
    ..
  • Music

  • Movies

    Save Me
    Shock to the System
    Third Man Out
    End of the Spear
    What Matters Most
    Paris
    Downtown: A Street Tale
  • Television

    Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman
    My Two Dads
    Webster
    Our House
    St. Elsewhere
  • Heroes

Comments

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  • Nov 23 2009 1:48 PM

  • Nov 23 2009 6:15 AM

    Great profile.
    Peace and progress.
    Many thanks for adding me and looking
    forward to your comment..
    Any suggestion is welcome.
    Hope you enjoy and dance to my Music.

    All the best wishes.
    Farid
  • Nov 21 2009 11:31 PM

    thx for being urself
  • Nov 21 2009 11:31 PM

    thanks for adding yourself
  • Nov 21 2009 6:44 AM

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  • Nov 20 2009 2:49 PM

  • Nov 19 2009 7:03 PM

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  • Hal

    Nov 18 2009 4:01 PM

    Thank you!
    it's no problem being there, to be a friend.

    HUGZ
  • Nov 18 2009 5:59 AM

    Can you comment my pic? =)
  • Nov 17 2009 6:47 AM

    Happy Thanksgiving Chad!
    I would offer a vintage cask of 
    Elderberry Wine to go with your 
    turkey, but since my great aunt,
    JOSEPHINE HULL (left) was in
    "Arsenic & Old Lace", it may have 
    quite a kick to it!  (She believed in 
    the "lay-away plan", meaning the
    cellar, and not just for wine!) - 
    Have a great Turkey Day - 
    Cortlandt



  • Nov 17 2009 6:47 AM

    Hey there stranger
  • Nov 17 2009 6:47 AM

    hi  thank you for added me ,your website is very nice, and you are very handsome ,very charming, like you
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  • Nov 15 2009 6:16 PM

    you're beautiful.  i had a crush on you before i even knew what i was thinking or before i knew what "gay" meant.  thanks for being my friend, even if it's only a myspace thing :)
  • Nov 15 2009 1:52 AM

    Thank you for accepting my request!
  • Nov 15 2009 1:52 AM

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  • Nov 15 2009 1:52 AM

    Great profile.
    Peace and progress.
    Many thanks for adding me and looking
    forward to your comment..
    Any suggestion is welcome.
    Hope you enjoy and dance to my Music.
    All the best wishes.
    Farid
  • Nov 8 2009 2:10 PM

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  • Nov 8 2009 2:10 PM

    hey!
    u just being urself helped me today,tx
  • Nov 2 2009 5:21 AM

    thanx 4 da approving..
    keep in touch
    n smile always....
  • Nov 1 2009 5:26 PM

    Thank you for the add Chad. Hope you had an Awesome Halloween!!!
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