BROOKE DAVIS - Sophia Bush

BROOKE DAVIS

Age: 18

Date of birth: 1988
Occupation: Student / Fashion designer
Relatives: Richard Davis (father)Barbara Davis (mother)
Episode count: 82
Portrayed by: Sophia Bush
Created by: Mark Schwahn

Brooke is Peyton's former best friend and captain of the cheerleading squad. Feisty and flirtatious, she has fallen for Lucas twice but both times, their relationship didn't work out because of Lucas and Peyton's closeness and infidelity. Brooke has recently moved in with Rachel, her one-time nemesis, having lived in several different places since her parents moved to California without her. She creates a clothing line, Clothes Over Bro's in Season Three - it is accepted by Rogue Vogue and later by Victoria's Secret.

SOPHIA BUSH

Birth name: Sophia Anna Bush
Born: July 8, 1982 (age 24)Pasadena, California, USA
Years active: 2002 - present
Spouse(s): Chad Michael Murray(16 April 2005 - 29 December 2006) (Divorced)
Notable roles: Brooke Davis in One Tree Hill (2003-present)Grace Andrews in The Hitcher(2007)

Biography

Early life

Bush, an only child, was born and raised in Pasadena, California to Charles William Bush, one of the top advertising and celebrity photographers working in the United States today, and Maureen, a photography studio manager. Bush attended Westridge School for Girls (Pasadena) and the University of Southern California and was a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, where she served as Social Chair. She attended USC for three years before getting the role of Brooke Davis on One Tree Hill (2003). In 2000, she was the Tournament of Roses Parade Queen.

Career
Bush made her first big screen appearance in the comedy Van Wilder as Sally (the freshman who seduces Van and doesn't know who Air Supply is). Since then, she has made appearances in several television shows including Nip/Tuck, Sabrin the Teenage Witch, and Punk'd after being tricked by her friend Brittany Snow.
She was cast as Kate Brewster in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines but was replaced by Claire Danes as the director thought she was too young. In 2003 she won the role of Brooke Davis in One Tree Hill. The show is one of The CW network's biggest hits and is exported all around the world. It was here she met future ex-husband Chad Michael Murray, whom she would divorce a few months later.
In between working on One Tree Hill, Bush has been cast in many films, such as Supercross, Stay Alive, John Tucker Must Die and a remake of The Hitcher.
Sophia recently received a "Rising Star" award at Vail Film Festival for her work in The Hitcher.

Personal life
On April 16, 2005, Bush married actor Chad Michael Murray, her One Tree Hill co-star, but they announced their separation on September 26 after five months of marriage. Bush sought an annulment in February 2006. The reason is believed to be Chad had an affair with Paris Hilton. In December of 2006 Bush and Murray's divorce was made final. Bush is now dating Stay Alive co-star Jon Foster. The two have been spotted on several occasions, sometimes in very romantic circumstances. The relationship between Bush and Foster was confirmed as of 2006.
Sophia is said to be best friends with many hollywood starlets, including John Tucker Must Die co-star Britney Snow, and fellow One Tree Hill co-star Bethany Joy Galeotti.

PEYTON SAWYER - Hilarie Burton

PEYTON SAWYER

Nickname: P.Sawyer
Age: 17
Year of birth: 1989
Occupation: Student / Artist
Family:
-Larry Sawyer (Adoptive father)

-Ellie Harp (Birth mother; deceased)

-Anna Rebecca Sawyer (Adoptive Mother; deceased)
Relationships:
-Lucas Scott (boyfriend)

-Jake Jagielski (Ex-boyfriend)

-Pete Wentz (Ex-boyfriend)

-Nathan Scott (Ex-Boyfriend)
Episode count: 80
Portrayed by: Hilarie Burton

Peyton is an interesting and unusual girl. Her two greatest passions in life are music and art; she is an expert in the punk-rock genre and uses her art to express the issues that play out in her life. Peyton's father Larry works on a dredging boat and is never at home and her mother Anna is dead. In Season Three, she discovers that she is actually adopted. She has never met her biological father although she has met his son, her half-brother, Derek. After getting to know her birth mother Ellie, she loses her to breast cancer. In Season Four, Lucas and Peyton finally admit their feelings for each other and begin a relationship.

HILARIE BURTON:

Birth name: Hilarie Ross Burton
Born: July 1, 1982 (age 24)Sterling, Virginia, USA
Notable roles: Peyton Sawyer in One Tree Hill

Biography:

Early life
Burton was born in Sterling, Virginia and grew up in a close-knit family with four siblings. Her father, Bill, is an antiques dealer and her mother, Lisa, is a real estate agent. She is the eldest of four, including herself. Her three younger brothers Billy, John and Conrad, consecutively. Hilarie attended Park View High School in Sterling, and was very active in the school's drama club, appearing on-stage in numerous productions. She also finds herself to be very much like her character was in highschool. She was not only in the drama club, but a cheerleader as well. She was also School President. Burton relocated to New York City and attended both New York University and Fordham University.

Career
Prior to her role on One Tree Hill, Burton worked as a VJ for the television show Total Request Live on MTV. She was supposed to be a guest commentator for one segment, but producers decided to offer her a permanent job. Burton appeared on the television series Dawson's Creek, and was cast as Peyton Sawyer, a high school cheerleader with an artistic side, on One Tree Hill, which debuted in 2003. She also unsuccessfully auditioned for the role of the coach's daughter in Radio. In 2005 she starred in Our very own opposite Jason Ritter. Since then she has starred in Solstice - 2006, Normal Adolescent Behaviour - 2007 and The List - 2007

Personal life
Burton currently splits her time between New York City and Wilmington, North Carolina, where One Tree Hill is filmed. She has a cat named Poe (named after Edgar Allan Poe) and enjoys collecting antiques, knitting and crocheting. She is also married to Ian Prange, the son of an executive producer of "One Tree Hill". Burton's favorite musicians are David Bowie, Elvis Presley, Dolly Parton, Elvis Costello and Loretta Lynn. Her favorite TV show is Freaks and Geeks.

NATHAN SCOTT - James Lafferty

NATHAN SCOTT:

Nickname: Nate
Age: 18
Year of birth: 1988
Occupation: Student
Family:
-Dan Scott (father)

-Deborah Lee (mother)

-Keith Scott (Uncle; deceased)

-Cooper Lee (Uncle)

-Lucas Scott (Half-brother)

-Royal Scott (Grandfather)

-May Scott (Grandmother)
Relationships:
-Haley James Scott (Wife)

-Peyton Sawyer (Ex-girlfriend)

-Brooke Davis (ex-lover)
Children: unborn son carried by Haley James Scott
Episode count: 83
Portrayed by: James Lafferty

Nathan, a stereotypical jock, is the son that Dan did claim, although his relationships with both his parents are strained at the best of times. Nathan marries Haley in Season One and again in Season Three and she is about to have his baby. He and Lucas start out as enemies but bond as friends and as brothers as the show progresses. Nathan is the star player of the Ravens and is named MVP in Season Four. Basketball has always been his greatest passion and he sees it as his "way out".

JAMES LAFFERTY:

Birth name: James Martin Lafferty
Born: July 25, 1985 (age 21)Hemet, California United States
Other name: Baby James, Jamie, J
Notable roles: Nathan Scott on One Tree Hill

Biography:

James Lafferty was born on July 25, 1985 in Hemet, California. His acting career began in 1992 at age seven. He was encouraged by his mother to act as a hobby. She also urged his brother to act. He attended Hemet High School, where he played basketball for the Varsity team, earning him an MVP award and an All-League award.
At age 10, he earned his first speaking role. In 2001, he landed a role on the short lived television series, Emeril. He played Emeril's son. Lafferty also guest starred on Once and Again, Get Real, and Boston Public. This led to his role in the movie, A Season on the Brink. This was a basketball movie, about the 1985-1986 season of Indiana University's men's basketball team. It was based on the book by John Feinstein. James played the character of Steve Alford.
In 2003, he graduated from high school and enrolled at California State University, Long Beach, before receiving the role of Nathan Scott. He currently resides in Wilmington, North Carolina. James lives with his girlfriend Vittoria Colosimo, and his Dog Nino.Lafferty is also a supporting partner of the professional basketball team the Wilmington Sea Dawgs, part of the American Basketball Association. He is currently working on a docudrama about this minor league basketball team in Wilmington, North Carolina

LUCAS SCOTT - Chad Michael Murray

LUCAS SCOTT:

Nickname: Luke

Age: 18

Year of birth: 1988

Occupation: Student

Family:

-Dan Scott (father)
-Karen Roe (mother)
-Nathan Scott (half-brother)
-Unborn baby (half-sibling)
-Keith Scott (Uncle; deceased)
-Unborn baby (nephew)

Relationships:

-Peyton Sawyer (Girlfriend)
-Brooke Davis(Ex-girlfriend)
-Anna Taggaro(Ex-girlfriend)
-Nikki(Ex-lover)

Episode count: 80

Portrayed by: Chad Michael Murray

Lucas Scott (played by Chad Michael Murray) - Lucas is the son that Dan never claimed, although Keith more than made up for the lack of a father figure in his life. He and Nathan start out as enemies but bond as friends and as brothers as the show progresses. Lucas' best friend is Haley and he is a romantic interest for both Peyton and Brooke. Lucas has a serious heart condition known as HCM, which he concealed for a long time. Aside from basketball, his greatest passion is literature and quotes from the books he reads are used on the show.

CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY:

Birth name: Chad Michael Murray
Born: August 24, 1981 (age 25)
Other name: Chad Murray
Notable roles: Lucas Scott on One Tree Hill

Biography:

Early life:
Murray was born in Buffalo, New York; he has three brothers (Rex, Nick, Brandon), one sister (Shannon Victoria Murray) and one half brother (Tyler). His mother left his family when he was 10 years old. His father (Rex), an air traffic controller, had to raise Chad and his siblings all by himself. He attended Clarence High School in his hometown of Clarence, NY. Murray describes himself as a loner in high school. At the age of fifteen, he began playing football as a kicker and punter. But when he was 15, a high school football injury landed him in a hospital where a nurse encouraged him to pursue a modeling career

Career:

Murray's first job was at the age of ten as a newspaper delivery boy, he also worked at a doughnut shop. In high school, Murray won a scholarship from a modeling agency in Buffalo to attend a modeling convention in Orlando. There, a manager named Jon Simmons from Los Angeles spotted him and persuaded the seventeen-year-old to pursue his dream of acting after graduation from high school. Under the guidance of Mr. Simmons, Murray turned his talent into major TV potential.
In 1999, the aspiring actor headed for Hollywood where he supported himself modeling for such clients like Sketchers, Hilfiger and Gucci before breaking into acting with a guest-star appearance on Diagnosis Murder in the episode The Cradle Will Rock. He slowly emerged to the limelight by taking roles in Aftermath, Murphy's Dozen and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. Besides that, he appeared in a small role in the feature-length thriller Megiddo: The Omega Code 2.
Murray's role began his association with the WB when he appeared in a recurring role as Rory's overconfident classmate, Tristan DuGrey, on Gilmore Girls. Later, he played the love interest to both Katie Holmes's Joey and Michelle Williams' Jen on Dawson's Creek. He starred as the title character in a pilot for a new Lone Ranger series for the WB, which did not get picked up.
He also appeared in the popular TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Tom Haviland in the episode The Accused Is Entitled(2002). Other television credits include Aftermath, with Meredith Baxter Birney and Robert Ulrich.
In 2003, he appeared in the remake of Disney's Freaky Friday opposite Lindsay Lohan. He then portrayed Austin Ames as Prince Charming in Warner Bros' A Cinderella Story (2005), opposite Hilary Duff. Additionally, he starred as the lead in Joel Silver's remake of House Of Wax, opposite Elisha Cuthbert.
In 2003, he starred in the WB series One Tree Hill as Lucas Scott. It is one of the shows that carried over to the CW.

Personal life:
Murray quoted that his role-models are fellow actors Edward Norton, Leonardo DiCaprio, Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro. He keeps himself in shape by working out at the gym, inline skating, playing soccer, volleyball and basketball, in addition to football pick-up games.
He was married to Sophia Bush in April 2005 but Bush filed court papers to have their marriage annulled in September of the same year. Chad was recently engaged to Kenzie Dalton, a cheerleader extra on the One Tree Hill set in North Carolina. She and Murray began seeing each other in December 2005 when she was only 17, and a senior in high school. She was runner-up in the Miss North Carolina Teen USA pageant, 2005. Murray and Bush's divorce was finalized in January 2007. Contrary to rumors, Murray has no intentions of reuniting with his cheating ex-wife.

WELCOME IN ONE TREE HILL WORLD

One Tree Hill is an American teen television drama. It premiered on September 23, 2003 and aired on The WB in the United States until May 3, 2006. On September 18, 2006, The WB merged with UPN and formed the The CW, so One Tree Hill kicked off its fourth season on the The CW on September 27, 2006 at 9/8C, and now airs weekly. One Tree Hill is filmed in Wilmington, North Carolina.