Christopher Chace Crawford was born on July 18, 1985. He is an American actor best known for his role as Nate Archibald in Gossip Girl on The CW.

Crawford was born in Lubbock, Texas, and raised in Plano, Texas. His father, Chris, is a dermatologist, and his mother, Dana, is a teacher. He has also a younger sister, Candice Crawford, who was Miss Missouri USA 2008. He lived in Bloomington, Minnesota, for four years. After high school, he moved to Malibu, California, to attend Pepperdine University, where he studied broadcast journalism. He struggled to identify a career path, vacillating among...