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Sexy Nicholas Alexander Chavez is Making Good Impressions in Hollywood
Timothy Rawles READ TIME: 4 MIN.
It might seem like producer Ryan Murphy and Nicholas Alexander Chavez have a special working relationship. Chavez has been cast in Murphy's shows that take up half of his acting career. The 25-year-old actor only has four titles on his IMDb credits with one in production: a reboot of the '90s slasher "I Know What You Did Last Summer."
Murphy has a sixth sense when it comes to casting his projects. His male stars are usually talented, sexy, and relatively unknown. That is the case of Chavez who may be popular among soap fans who know him as Spencer on "General Hospital," but for the rest of us, he is the other murderous Menendez brother, Lyle, in Murphy's highly successful Netflix series "Monsters." He plays opposite Cooper Koch, another Murphy find.
He returned to TV right after finishing "Monsters" to star in "Grotesquerie," another Ryan Murphy production, this time playing a sexy priest.
"It was so cool that Ryan felt compelled to involve me in another one of his worlds, in another one of his projects," Chavez told Town and Country. "It's very different than Menendez, and the character that I play allows me to lean into different colors and pockets of my artistry, which I was very thankful for. It was definitely a cool and demanding experience."
Chavez has been acting since high school. In ninth and tenth grade he pursued speech and debate, and then in his third year he got into theater, his first role being Atticus Finch in "To Kill a Mockingbird."
"It happened in a funny way because the kid who was supposed to play Atticus got sick a few weeks before [opening], and the director asked if I could [take] his place," he told Tudum. "A lot of people in the faculty came to watch the show, and they gave me really, really positive feedback and suggested I think about doing this as my career."
It's a far cry from what he was doing before his big break. He spent a little time delivering items for customers through Postmates and then he tried selling cars and insurance.
"There's probably not a product under the sun that I haven't tried to sell–it really does a good job of preparing you to hear all the nos that sometimes come along with acting," he said, "especially in those early days as you're trying to make a name for yourself." In 2021, he built that name into something big, winning a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Performer just a year later for his role as Spencer Cassadine.
