Christopher Gorham Biography
Summary
"Christopher Gorham" (born August 14, 1974) is an American actor.
Early life
Gorham was born an only child in Fresno, California. 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, roller-blading, and ballroom dancing. In the fourth grade he starred as the Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll's "Alice Through the Looking Glass", for which he won the Best Actor award that was usually reserved for sixth graders. While still in high school, he won Young Male Talent of the Year at an International Modeling Talent Association competition in New York City.
Career
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. He also has done voice-overs for some computer and video games.
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 finale on May 21, 2009.
Gorham appears in the TV mini-series, "Harper's Island". The show started airing April 2009. In this, he played pauper Henry Dunn, a young man marrying the girl of his dreams, Trish Wellington (Katie Cassidy).
Personal life
Gorham is married to his former "Popular" co-star, Anel Lopez Gorham, with whom he has three young children: sons Lucas (born c.2001) and Ethan (born c.2003), and a daughter named Alondra Cecilia Lopez (born January 10, 2009). He proposed to her on a bench outside of Tiffany's on Rodeo Drive, where he had made a picnic breakfast so that they could have a Breakfast at Tiffany's-style meal before going in and buying their wedding rings, they were college sweethearts.
External links
(Christopher Gorham Fan: A Chris Gorham fan site)
Credit
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