Christopher Gorham
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| Born | Christopher David Gorham August 14, 1974 Fresno, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1997-present |
| Spouse | Anel Lopez Gorham (m. 2000-present) 3 children |
Christopher David Gorham[1] (born August 14, 1974) is an American actor.
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[edit] Early life
Gorham was born in Fresno, California to David Gorham, a certified public accountant and Cathryn Gorham, a school nurse. He attended high school at Roosevelt School of the Arts and graduated from UCLA with a BA in Film & Theater Arts. While in college, he participated in many sports including martial arts, stage combat, fencing, rollerblading, and ballroom dancing.[2][3]
[edit] Career
His first job in the business was as an intern on Baywatch (1989).[2] Gorham has appeared in a number of science fiction TV series, ranging from a starring role in Odyssey 5 to the title character in Jake 2.0. He also had roles on Party of Five, Felicity and Without a Trace. Gorham has also acted in films, including 2001's The Other Side of Heaven co-starring Anne Hathaway.
Gorham played Harrison John in the WB series Popular, Dr. Miles McCabe in the NBC drama Medical Investigation, and played the lead role in the short lived CBS series Out of Practice. He was also the lead of ABC Family's original movie Relative Chaos.
Three years after Jake 2.0 ended, Gorham again worked with series creator Silvio Horta for a recurring role in Horta's new series, Ugly Betty. Gorham played Henry Grubstick, the main love interest for the series' heroine Betty Suarez (played by America Ferrera). Gorham joined the cast full-time for the series' second season. He then left in July 2008, but returned for the Season 3 and also Season 4 finale.[4]
Gorham starred in the 2009 CBS TV miniseries, Harper's Island, in which characters were killed off every week leading to the eventual reveal of the murderer.
In the summer of 2010, he was cast as one of the leads in Covert Affairs, playing a blind special ops agent Auggie Anderson, who leads the main character, a trainee CIA agent played by Piper Perabo, at her new job. The series on the USA cable network received high ratings right from the airing of its pilot episode and has been renewed for a third season. Consequently, BuddyTV ranked him #5 on its list of "TV's Sexiest Men of 2011".[5]
[edit] Personal life
Gorham is married to his former Popular co-star, Anel Lopez Gorham, with whom he has three children: sons Lucas (born c.2001) and Ethan (born c.2003), and a daughter named Alondra Cecilia Lopez Gorham (born January 10, 2009) [6]
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Films
| Year | Film | Role | Other notes |
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| 1997 | Shopping for Fangs | Extra | |
| A Life Less Ordinary | Walt | ||
| 2000 | Dean Quixote | Real Happy Fella | |
| 2001 | The Other Side of Heaven | John Groberg | Won - Camie Award[7] |
| 2004 | Spam-ku | Roy | |
| 2006 | Relative Chaos | Dil Gilbert | TV Movie |
| 2010 | My Girlfriend's Boyfriend | Ethan Reed | Somebody's Hero |
| Answer This! | Paul Tarson | Premiered in Ann Arbor, 2011 Detroit International Film Festival, Theatrical Release Premiere Royal Oak, MI October 2011. |
[edit] TV Shows
| Year | Show | Role | Other notes |
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| 1997 | Spy Game | Daniel/Lucas | Episode: "Nobody Ever Said Growing Up Was Easy" |
| 1997–98 | Party of Five | Elliot | Four Episodes |
| 1998 | Buffy the Vampire Slayer | James Stanley | Episode: "I Only Have Eyes for You" |
| Vengeance Unlimited | Jason Harrington | Episode: "Noir" | |
| 1999 | Saved by the Bell: The New Class | Mark Carlson | Episode: "Liz Burns Eric" |
| 1999–2001 | Popular | Harrison John | 43 episodes |
| 2001–02 | Felicity | Trevor O'Donnell | Eight episodes |
| 2002–03 | Odyssey 5 | Neil Taggart | 19 episodes |
| 2003 | Boomtown | Gordon Sinclair | Episode: "Monster's Brawl" |
| CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Corey | Episode: "Crash and Burn" | |
| Without a Trace | Josh Abrams | Episode: "Victory for Humanity" | |
| 2003–04 | Jake 2.0 | Jake Foley | 16 episodes Nominated – Cinescape Genre Face of the Future Award[8] |
| 2004–05 | Medical Investigation | Dr. Miles McCabe | 20 episodes |
| 2005–06 | Out of Practice | Benjamin Barnes | 19 episodes |
| 2006–10 | Ugly Betty | Henry Grubstick | 33 episodes Series nominated for Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series[9] |
| 2008 | The Batman | William Mallory | Episode: "The End of the Batman" (voice) |
| 2009 | Harper's Island | Henry Dunn | 13 episodes |
| 2010–present | Covert Affairs | Auggie Anderson | Main cast |
| 2011 | Love Bites | Dale | Episode: "Boys to Men" |
| 2012 | Hot in Cleveland | Casey | Episode: "Tangled Web" |
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0330913/
- ^ a b "IMDB bio"
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Ugly Betty: Henry Is Back!". TVGuide.com. http://www.tvguide.com/News/Ugly-Betty-Gorham-1005365.aspx. Retrieved 2009-04-22.
- ^ "TV's 100 Sexiest Men of 2011". BuddyTV. http://www.buddytv.com/slideshows/white-collar/tvs-100-sexiest-men-of-2011-29104.aspx. Retrieved January 13, 2012.
- ^ "It's a Girl for Ugly Betty's Chris Gorham!", People.com, January 11, 2009
- ^ "Camie Award Web Site". http://www.camie.org/the-other-side-of-heaven.html.
- ^ "IMDB Awards". http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0330913/awards.
- ^ "The 14th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards". Screen Actors Guild. http://www.sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/14th-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards. Retrieved 2010-07-21.
