Chad Allen

At 49 years old, Chad Allen has this physical status:

Chad Allen (born June 5, 1974) is a retired American actor.

Allen, who started his career at the age of seven, is a three-time Young Artist Award winner and a GLAAD Media Award winner.

During the 1980s, he was a youth idol on television's Our House as David Witherspoon and as Zach Nichols on the NBC family drama My Two Parents before transitioning to an adult role as Matthew Cooper on CBS western drama Dr. Xomas.

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In April 2015, he announced his resignation from acting.

Early life

Allen was born Chad Allen Lazzari in Cerritos, California, on June 5, 1974, and grew up in Artesia. He has a twin sister named Charity, as well as a brother named Steve Lazzari, who works with Union Pacific Railway. Allen is of mainly Italian origins, with a "dose" of German origins. He was born in a "strict" Roman Catholic family and sees himself as a "deeply spiritual being" because of his upbringing. Allen attended St. John Bosco High School in Bellflower, California.

Personal life

Allen was outed as gay at a party in 1996 when the national tabloid The Globe announced photographs of him kissing another man in a hot tub. Someone who posed as a friend of the couple was selling the images. Allen has since become an LGBT advocate in addition to his continuing acting and producing work. Allen appeared on CNN's Larry King Live with San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom on January 17, 2006 to represent his views in a discussion about same-sex marriages. Allen praised Newsom for his efforts to legitimize same-sex marriages in the area. Allen has been published in The Advocate magazine several times before and has appeared on three of its pages.

Allen's partner, Jeremy Glazer, appeared in the film Save Me in November 2006. Allen said in an interview with Out.com in September 2008 that he was still in a three-year relationship and had been sober for eight years. AfterElton.com said that his boyfriend was Glazer in October 2008. Allen was named winner of the Davidson/Valentini Award in May 2009 by a GLAAD Media Award. He said in his acceptance address that he had met Glazer, his partner, four years ago. They stopped growing in 2015 and ended up in the mountains.

Allen earned a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles, in June 2015. He graduated from the Psy.D. In 2020, Antioch University, New England, will have a program in Clinical Psychology.

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Career

Allen appeared on several prime time television shows, including an early episode of Airwolf for which he was named as the "Best Young Actor: Guest in a Series" at the 6th Youth in Film Awards and St. Antoine. Elsewhere, where he starred autistic child Tommy Westphall (1983–88). All of the series's storylines ended in Tommy's imagination, as shown in the series's last episode, "The Last One." He appeared on Cutter to Houston in 1983, playing "a child who got sick and had to be carried by mouth to mouth and then to the waiting chopper by Dr. Hal Wexler (Alec Baldwin). "I thought it was the best job I had ever had," he later said. Allen's first regular role was as David Witherspoon on Our House (1986–88). He appeared in My Two Parents from 1989 to 1990. Matthew Cooper in Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman with Jane Seymour (1993–98) was Allen's next work. During his time on St. Brute, he made his last season of his career. Allen was also teamed with his sister Charity Allen on an episode of NBC's Saturday morning children's game show I'm Telling!

Allen plays Donald Strachey, a gay private detective in a monogamous relationship, in a series of television movies for the here. Richard Stevenson's novel was the basis of the network. Shock to the System (2006) was preceded by On the Other Hand, Death (2008), and Ice Blues (2008). Allen said that Strachey was the first gay character to play outside of theater and that, although his work is "different" since being out, he finds it "more exciting and enjoyable for him than ever."

As Allen was portrayed as real-life Christian missionary Nate Saint in the docudrama End of the Spear (2006), some conservative Christians retaliate against the producers for casting an openly gay man in the role.

Allen appeared in the film Save Me in 2007. Allen wrote and directed the film, which was produced by Robert Cary and written by Robert Desiderio. Save Me, a film about the ex-gay movement at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, was selected for release by independent studio Fine Line Features.

Allen appeared in Looped, a play based on the life of Tallulah Bankhead, at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California, from June to August 2008.

Allen portrayed Dr. Kyle Julian in five episodes of the ABC Daytime soap opera General Hospital, beginning on September 23, 2008.

Allen revealed in a YouTube video in April 2015 that he had to abandon his acting career to become a clinical psychologist.

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