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Jesse Spencer is an Australian actor best known for his role as Dr. Robert Chase on House, M.D.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Roles 2.1 Billed Roles 2.2 Major Roles 2.3 Minor Roles 3 Memorable Moments 4 Awards and Accolades 4.1 Silver Logie Awards, Australia 4.2 Teen Choice Awards, USA 5 Trivia

[edit] Biography

Jesse Gordon Spencer was born on February 12, 1979 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. His father, Dr. Rodney Spencer, was a doctor who, along with his wife and Jesse's mother Robyn Spencer, founded the right-wing political party, Australians Against Further Immigration. Robyn also worked with the One Nation party and ran for the Australian Senate but was not elected.

From an early age, Spencer showed a talent for music. He sang in the Australian boys choir and became skilled at playing the violin, piano, guitar and drums. He was also a gifted student and was offered a chance to study medicine at Melbourne University and become a doctor like his father and all three of his siblings, but he declined to chase his goal of acting.

After an early role in the Australian soap opera Neigbours, he came to America and landed roles in such films as Swimming Upstream and Uptown Girls. In 2004, he debuted as Dr. Robert Chase on the TV series House, M.D., and became a recognized star in the United States. Appropriately enough for his background, he plays an intensivist and diagnostician whose father is also a doctor.

[edit] Roles

[edit] Billed Roles

• Neighbours: Billy Kennedy (Seasons Ten through Sixteen and Season Twenty-One)

• House, M.D.: Robert Chase (Seasons One through Three)

[edit] Major Roles

[edit] Minor Roles

• Time Trax: Young Bill
  • 2x04 - A Close Encounter

• Hercules: Triton Jr.
  • 1x33 - Hercules and the Son of Poseidon

• Always Greener: Kyle
  • 2x11 - A Death in the Family

[edit] Memorable Moments

[edit] Awards and Accolades

[edit] Silver Logie Awards, Australia

(1 Nomination)

• Nominated: Most Popular Actor (1998)

Neighbours

[edit] Teen Choice Awards, USA

(1 Nomination)

• Nominated: Choice TV Breakout Performance - Male

House, M.D.

[edit] Trivia

• He dated House, M.D. co-star Jennifer Morrison. The two are still friends, and Spencer appears in and co-stars with Morrison in Flourish, a film she produced.