Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman (born October 21, 1984) is an Canadian actor. He portrays Charles Zeller in the Disney+ Original Series Doogie Kameāloha, M.D..
Biography[]
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman was born on October 21, 1984 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He was adopted when he was 12 days old and his last name is a hyphenate of his adoptive parents' last names. His biological younger brother is Cleyon Laing, defensive end for the Toronto Argonauts. His biological father is Jamaican.
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman was raised, with one sister, in Rimbey, Alberta, a small "predominantly Caucasian" town of less than 2000 people, which he says people in the area refer to as "the Texas of the north." According to Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, the region was "very much, like, oil and gas and farming and ranching" and growing up there as a biracial gay man was akin to "a sick social experiment." He was, in his own words, "exposed to a lot at a very young age and expected to be very adult in very bizarre situations."
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman lived in Rimbey until his teenage years, at which point he moved to Vancouver, then began traveling as a model at age 15 throughout Europe, South Africa, and all across North America. He later moved to Vancouver again at age 21, which was when he began to take his acting career more seriously. He acted in his first movie, then moved to New York, living there for seven years before moving to Los Angeles in September 2016.[1]
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