Shelter

Background:

Actor Brad Rowe began his professional acting career in Los Angeles in the mid 1990s after working as a financial manager in Washington D.C. He has amassed a number of film credits, including “Invisible Temptation” (1996), “Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss” (1998), “Christina's House” (1999), “Body Shots” (1999), “Nailed” (2001), “Full Frontal” (2002), “Shut Up and Kiss Me” (2004), “Love for Rent” (2005), “Shelter” (2007, as Shaun), “National Treasure: Book of Secrets” (2007, as Agent Hopper) and “Freckle and Bean” (2010). He also played regular roles on “Wasteland” (1999), “Leap of Faith” (2002) and “IQ-145” (2008) and recurring roles in “NewsRadio” (1998), “1-800-Missing” (2003-2006) and “General Hospital” (2010, as Murphy Sinclair). In addition, he has guest starred in numerous shows, among them “Criminal Minds,” “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” “CSI: Miami,” “CSI: NY” and “Cold Case” and produced several projects, including the 2001 documentary “Carving Out Our Name” and the films “Getting Hal” (2003) and “For Better or for Worse” (he starred in both films).

Rowe is married and has one son named Hopper. He volunteers as a teacher for the homeless and economically disadvantaged.

Finance Manager

Childhood and Family:

Brad Rowe was born Bradley Thomas Rowe on May 15, 1970, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 1993, he graduated from the University of Wisconsin in Madison with a BS degree in economics. He spent his junior year in Seville, Spain, where he played in a blues band. He worked as a finance manager for political campaigns in Washington, D.C. before moving to Los Angles to try his hand at acting.

Rowe married Lisa Fiori on September 18, 1999. They have one son named Hopper.

General Hospital

Career:

Following a stint as a finance manager, Brad Rowe moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting. He began with a mail room job at the United Talent Agency and after taking acting classes, began landing auditions. He made his feature acting debut in “Invisible Temptation” (1996). In 1997, he landed the recurring role of Zack Rossler on the syndicated series “Pensacola: Wings of Gold” (2 episodes) and appeared as Brian in an episode of “Clueless” called “Valley of the Malls.” The next year, he played the recurring role of Walt on the critically acclaimed sitcom “NewsRadio” (NBC, 1995-1999), which starred Dave Foley, Stephen Root, Andy Dick, Joe Rogan, Maura Tierney and Vicki Lewis, and guest starred in the series “Pacific Blue” (USA Network, 1996-2000). Still in 1998, he was cast as Gabriel in “Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss,” a comedy written and directed by Tommy O'Haver. He then portrayed Lieutenant Tim Lacy in the thriller “The Pandora Project,” starring Daniel Baldwin, Erika Eleniak and Richard Tyson.

In 1999, Rowe made his debut as a regular on the ABC drama “Wasteland,” opposite Sasha Alexander, Marisa Coughlan, Rebecca Gayheart and Eddie Mills. Created by Kevin Williamson, the show premiered on October 7, 1999 but was canceled after three episodes. The same year, he made his TV movie debut in the Uli Edel directed “Purgatory,” which received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special. 1999 also found him costarring with Brendan Fehr and Allison Lange in “Christina's House,” which was directed by Gavin Wilding and written by Stuart Allison, and Seth Green and Zoe McLellan in Byron W. Thompson's “Web of Lies,” which was nominated for the Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing - Direct to Video - Sound Editorial at the 2001 Motion Picture Sound Editors. In addition, he teamed up with Sean Patrick Flanery, Jerry O'Connell, Amanda Peet, Tara Reid, Ron Livingston, Emily Procter and Sybil Temchen for New Line Cinema's “Body Shots,” which was written by David McKenna and directed by Michael Cristofer.

Rowe next provided the voice of Big Ibex in an episode of “The Wild Thornberrys” titled “Every Little Bit Alps” (2000), starred as Byron Shales in the TV film “The '70s” (NBC, 2000), which won the Excellence in Production Design Award for Television Movie or Mini-Series at the 2001 Art Directors Guild, guest starred in “The Outer Limits” (2001, episode “A New Life) and played Detective Murphy in the short “Feather Pimento” (2001). He also portrayed the son of Harvey Keitel, Jeff, in the independent drama “Nailed” (2001), by filmmaker Joel Silverman, and costarred with Jesse Bradford, Mia Kirshner, David Krumholtz and Adam Goldberg in Shane Edelman's “According to Spencer” (2001). He returned to series television as a regular on the CBS situation comedy “Leap of Faith” (2002), playing Dan Murphy. Despite having good ratings, the show only lasted six episodes. Later in 2002, he appeared in the Steven Spielberg film “Full Frontal,” with David Duchovny, Nicky Katt, Catherine Keener, Mary McCormack, David Hyde Pierce, Julia Roberts and Blair Underwood and starred with Susan Ward and Jonathan Penner in the direct to video “Would I Lie to You,” a romantic comedy adapted from “The Importance of Being Earnest.”

In 2003, Rowe joined the cast of the Lifetime series “1-800-Missing” in the recurring role of Jack Burgess. He would stay with the show until 2006. He then portrayed Hal in the film “Getting Hal” (2003, opposite Brian Doyle-Murray, Delicia Lanza and Carlo Glorioso), Daniel McCandles in the TV film “Lucky 7” (2003, with Kimberly Williams-Paisley and Patrick Dempsey), Danny in Brian Austin Green's “Fish Without a Bicycle” (2003, with Jenna Mattison and Bryan Callen), and Pete Waddle in Gary Brockette's “Shut Up and Kiss Me” (2004). He then appeared as Jason in the TV film “Mystery Woman: Sing Me a Murder” (2005), Adam in the TV movie “Nadine in Date Land” (2005), Jesse in “Love for Rent” (2005), a film starring Angie Cepeda, Ken Marino and Martita Roca, and Doug Lathrop in the Elizabeth Puccini film “Four Corners of Suburbia” (2005). The actor also appeared in short films like “The Uninvited,” “October,” “Certainly Not a Fairytale” (all 2003) and “Jessica” (2004), as well as in episodes of “Miss Match” (2003), “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” (2005, as Mark Kyman), “The Closer” (2005), “The Bad Girl's Guide” (2005), “CSI: Miami” (2006) and “Criminal Minds” (2006). He was next cast in the Hallmark Entertainment drama “Though None Go with Me” (2006), starring Cheryl Ladd, Amy Grabow and Denise Grayson, and appeared in the Lifetime TV thriller “Vanished” (also 2006).

2007 saw Rowe appear in three episodes of the HBO series “Tell Me You Love Me,” starring Michelle Borth, Tim DeKay and Aislinn Paul, guest star in “Ghost Whisperer” (as Hugh Bristow), “Drive” (as Richard Patrakas), “How I Met Your Mother” (as George) and “CSI: NY” (as Benjamin Sutor). He also played roles in the films “The Insatiable,” starring Sean Patrick Flanery, Michael Biehn and Charlotte Ayanna, Jonah Markowitz's “Shelter,” opposite Trevor Wright and Tina Holmes, and the Nicolas Cage hit “National Treasure: Book of Secrets,” a sequel to the 2004 film “National Treasure.” Rowe then starred as Jake Berringer in the science fiction TV series “IQ-145,” which premiered on April 16, 2008. Costars of the series included Thomas Dekker and Lindsey McKeon. The same year, he also appeared in the episode “New Year's Eve” of “Happy Hour,” in an episode of “Cold Case” called “Triple Threat” and as Detective Marco Francis in the episode “Seeing Red” of “The Mentalist.” In addition, he costarred in the film “Whore,” which was written, directed by and starred Thomas Dekker.

After a guest spot in “Make It or Break It” and an appearance in Tony Zierra's documentary “My Big Break” (both 2009), Rowe resurfaced the next year when he landed the role of Murphy Sinclair on the daytime television drama “General Hospital.” He appeared in 11 episodes from August to September 2010. In November 2010, he played the supporting role of Devin in the comedy “Freckle and Bean,” which starred Bailey Conway, Betsy Cox and Elena Crevello.

Recently, Rowe appeared in the direct to video comedy “Your Love Never Fails,” which was released on February 4, 2011. He is set to star in the upcoming feature “For Better or for Worse,” in which he also contributed story to and served as a producer.

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