Chace Crawford is the sexy Nate Archibald in the television series Gossip Girl which is broadcast on the CW network. Gossip Girl began as a book series and because of its popularity became a major network television series. Gossip Girl has only been on for one season, and that includes a writers strike hiatus, and its popularity is off the charts. Shows like Dawsons Creek, Beverly Hills 90210 and The O.C. paved the way for this show by creating an entire genre of teen to young adult dramas on primetime.



Gossip Girl finds its niche because it addresses issues that people can relate to from across the world. The show centers around six main characters that all attend same sex, private high schools in the prestigious Upper East Side. The girls go to the Constance Billard School for Girls while the boys attend St. Judes.

The six main characters are Blair Waldorf, Serena van der Woodsen, Jenny Humphrey, Nate Archibald, Chuck Bass and Dan Humphrey. All of them live in the Upper East Side and come from wealthy families except Dan and Jenny Humphrey who hail from Brooklyn. One of the most interesting parts of the television show Gossip Girl is that the main character is someone that you never even see. Gossip Girl actually refers to the narrator of the show and she is someone whom we never see on the show. She only communicates with the other characters on the show via cell phone text messaging. All of the gossip filters through her and then she sends out mass texts to everyone on the network, which is pretty much everyone who attends those private and prestigious high schools. A lot of the time she receives her gossip from some of the main characters in the show when they are trying to instigate trouble or drama.

The real Nate Archibald is Chace Crawford, and he is just as handsome in real as his charming character is on Gossip Girl. Chace Crawford is originally from Plano, Texas and was raised by his father, a dermatologist and his mother, a teacher. He grew up with one sister who won the Miss Missouri USA title in 2008. After graduating from high school he moved to Malibu, California to attend Pepperdine University. He struggled to find a career path so half way through his second year, his mother suggested that he try out acting. He credits her for initiating his bold move and it is clear by his performance on Gossip Girl that he made the right choice.