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Chad Lowe

American actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionAug 3, 2026
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Charles Davis "Chad" Lowe II 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, and played Byron Montgomery on Pretty Little Liars.

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The public source identifies “Chad Lowe” as american actor. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Chad, Lowe and American.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current 77-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Chad, Lowe and American providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Chad Lowe” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.