If one was to believe the tag line “You’re nobody until you’re talked about” from the “Gossip Girl” (CW, 2007- ) marketing materials, then the casting of its breakout star Chace Crawford could not have been more perfect. The Texas native did not even consider acting until he was in college, but just less than a year after his show debuted, the hunky Crawford suddenly found himself a favorite topic of weekly entertainment magazines and gossip blogs, as well as a viewer favorite on the popular New York-based program.

Christopher Chace Crawford was born on July 18, 1985 in Lubbock, TX to father