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Chad Allen (born June 5, 1974) is an American actor. Beginning a prolific career as a child actor at the age of seven, Allen is a three-time Young Artist Award winner and GLAAD Media Award honoree, best known for rising to prominence as a teen idol during the late 1980s as David Witherspoon on the NBC family drama, Our House and as Zach Nichols on the NBC sitcom, My Two Dads, before transitioning to an adult career as Matthew Cooper on the CBS western drama, Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman. Allen was born Chad Allen Lazzari in Cerritos, California and grew up in Artesia. He has a twin sister... MORE

Chad Allen (born June 5, 1974) is an American actor. Beginning a prolific career as a child actor at the age of seven, Allen is a three-time Young Artist Award winner and GLAAD Media Award honoree, best known for rising to prominence as a teen idol during the late 1980s as David Witherspoon on the NBC family drama, Our House and as Zach Nichols on the NBC sitcom, My Two Dads, before transitioning to an adult career as Matthew Cooper on the CBS western drama, Dr. Quinn: Medicine Woman. Allen was born Chad Allen Lazzari in Cerritos, California and grew up in Artesia. He has a twin sister named Charity. Allen is of predominantly Italian origin, with the "dose" of German origin. He was raised within a "strict" Roman Catholic household and regards himself as being a "deeply spiritual person" because of his upbringing. Allen attended St. John Bosco High School in Bellflower, California. A young Allen guest-starred on several prime time series including St. Elsewhere, in which he played autistic child Tommy Westphall from 1983 to 1988. Notably, the series' final episode "The Last One" ends with the indication that all of its storylines occurred within Westphall's imagination. In 1983, he LESS