Chace Crawford

Christopher Chace Crawford was born in Lubbock in 1985 and grew up largely in Plano after several childhood years outside Texas. He graduated from Trinity Christian Academy in Addison before attending Pepperdine University in California.

Crawford became nationally known as Nate Archibald on Gossip Girl and later took on a sharply different satirical superhero role as The Deep in The Boys. His Texas connection is straightforward and verifiable: West Texas birthplace followed by a North Texas upbringing and schooling.

Crawford moved from teen-drama fame into a durable adult television career that often plays against his early screen image.

Lubbock and Plano provide a clear Texas biography without needing to overstate later state ties.

Crawford's Texas connection is more than a birthplace footnote: his Lubbock birth and North Texas upbringing place the beginning of his story in the state even though his best-known screen work was made elsewhere. That distinction helps explain why he belongs in a Texas media roster without pretending his career was primarily Texas-based.