* Adorable Chad Alien was born on June 5, 1974 in Cerritos, California, where he still lives!

* His real last name is Lazzari, but his middle name is actually Allen!

* His parents' names are Ed and Faith, and Chad has three (very handsome!) older brothers-Steven, Bobby and Jimmy-and one identical twin sister named Charity!

* Before he got into TV acting, Chad and Charity used to enter "twin contests" at state fairs! Can you just imagine how cute they must have been?

* One of Chad's favorite hobbies is polishing rocks and making them into jewelry! This got him quite a few rocks in the mail from his sweet fans, as well as some other surprises! "They go into their garden and dig up a little clump of dirt with pebbles in it and send it!" laughs Chad, who still appreciates the offer!

* Chad used to have two turtles earned Scrappy and O.J.

* The only pet in Chad's house now is the family dog, Mai Mai!

* Chad's first acting job came when he was only six years old-it was for a McDonald's commercial, and he had to eat cheeseburgers all day long!

* Are you a fan of the Charlie Brown cartoons that come along every holiday season? Well, if you are, you may have heard Chad's voice as Charlie Brown himself! It was one of his first jobs a few years ago-too bad we didn't get to see that cute face to go with the voice!

 


* Health-minded Chad once did a whole TV show for teenagers about the dangers of drugsl "It was called Straight Up," explains Chad, "and I play a boy of 12 who's going through the pressures of doing drugs, and Louis Gossett Jr. played Cosmo, a character who takes me away to other worlds and I learn all about drugs and alcohol and what they can do to you." Sounds intense!

* Chad's favorite food? It's just gotta be his mom's spaghetti, a big hit in the Lazzah household!

* Two of Chad's most recent projects were his starring role as David Witherspoon on the recently-cancelled Our House and a semi-regular role as a sick boy on St. Elsewhere, in which Chad was so convincing he had folks wiping the tears away!

* Everyone knows that Chad's a way cool actor himself, but even he has a hero-Tom Cruise! Chad's all-time favorite movie is Top Gun (he's seen it hundreds of times!), and he also liked Cocktail a lot too!

* Chad's worst habit? "My nails grow like crazy," he blushes, "and my worst habit is I never remember to cut 'em, so I've always got these long nails!"

Whenever anyone asks about Chad's favorite city, he's quick to tell them it's Rome, Italy! "My favorite acting job was probably the movie I did in Rome, Terrorvision. It was a really stupid movie but we had so much fun making it because we were in Rome! We were there for about six weeks and we had a blast!" smiles Chad!

Fun-loving Chad has great ideas for Halloween: Every year he and his next­door neighbor make a haunted house! "We're going to plan on doing it for Halloween every year and make different rooms and things! We have three rooms and several hallways that people walk through! I get dressed up for my part that I play in the haunted house-a zombie!" he laughs!

* When you meet Chad, remember to just be yourself-he doesn't go for girls who put on an act!

* What is Chad really like? Just ask him."I think I'm probably a little headstrong, very high spirited, a go-getter," he says thoughtfully. "I don't like to give up on anything."