Attractively rumpled blue-eyed blond performer Chad Michael Murray began as a model and successfully segued to an acting career with high profile roles on The WB on the small screen and parts as teen queen love interests on the big screen.

 Though some may have seen talented ingenue Alexis Bledel in modeling assignments that featured her brown-haired, blue-eyed angelic beauty, or even less likely, caught her performances in Houston community theater productions, for the great majority of the audience, she first appeared as Rory Gilmore, the younger of The WB's "Gilmore Girls"(2000-) Though the actress began her craft as a way to combat shyness beginning at age eight, the Texas native landed a modeling contract that led to work throughout her teens, thanks in no small part to her untarnished, pink-cheeked all-Am