Nicholas Alexander Chavez

About

Nicholas Alexander Chavez (born September 6, 1999) is an American actor. He played Spencer Cassadine on the ABC soap opera General Hospital from 2021 to 2024, for which he won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Performer in a Drama Series. He portrayed Lyle Menendez in the crime drama series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story and priest Charlie Mayhew in the horror series Grotesquerie, both co-created by Ryan Murphy in 2024.

Chavez was born in Houston, Texas. He has three younger half-siblings. He lived in Sugar Land, Texas, before his family relocated to Denver, Colorado. His parents had never married, but they split when he was five and they decided to split his time between his mother’s home in Denver and his father’s hometown of Arvada, Colorado. As a child, Chavez spent a lot of time outdoors, snowboarding, hiking and mountain biking. He described himself as a “precocious kid”. At an early age, Chavez developed an interest in performing, including recreating the blessing of the Eucharist, which he saw at Sunday Mass. He was also a member of the Colorado Children’s Chorale and performed at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House and the…