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CHAD MICHAEL COLLINS

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Born and raised in rural upstate New York, actor Chad Michael Collins landed in Los Angeles after being offered a job in entertainment public relations. But since the day that a successful talent manager convinced him to try an acting class several years ago, Collins has gone on to amass over two dozen major television and film credits.

Collins is best known for his franchise-starring role in Sony’s reboot  SNIPER: RELOADED (2011), playing the son of Tom Berenger’s original legendary Marine sniper. The film co-starred Billy Zane, and Collins reprised his lead role as ‘Sgt Brandon Beckett’ in SNIPER: LEGACY last fall.

In  SNIPER: LEGACY, Collins teams up with Oscar-nominee Tom Berenger as father and son team up to track a deadly assassin. Gritty fight sequences, breathtaking locations, and strong performances from a cast that also included Dennis Haysbert and Mercedes Masohn are featured in Director Don Michael Paul’s action-packed addition to the SNIPER film canon. SNIPER: LEGACY was released on DVD and Digital HD on September 30th, 2014.

Collins also starred as the lead for Sony’s WWII action film COMPANY OF HEROES (2013), co-starring Tom Sizemore, Neal McDonough, and Vinnie Jones, which was based on the popular THQ video game franchise.

Last fall, Collins was seen in guest-starring roles in two long-running hit television series: ABC’s “Castle” opposite stars Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic and FOX’s “Bones” opposite stars David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel. This past spring, Collins guested on the CBS “CSI: Cyber” planted spinoff pilot in an episode of “CSI” opposite new franchise star Patricia Arquette.

Last summer, Collins shot a lead role in the AFI Director’s Workshop for Women finalist short THE HAIRCUT, about the first class of female cadets allowed to enlist in military academies in 1976 after a 174-year ban. The film also starred Bailey Noble (“True Blood”) and Molly Quinn (“Castle”), and saw Collins playing a nasty drill instructor hazing new recruits.

Collins is known to sci-fi/fantasy fans for his work playing ‘Frankenstein’s Monster/Gerhart’ in ABC’s hit show “Once Upon a Time” as well as in lead roles for the SyFy Channel/Sony film LAKE PLACID 2 and SyFy’s ROCK MONSTER. His recent TV guest-starring credits include “Blue Bloods” (CBS), “Major Crimes” (TNT), “2 Broke Girls” (CBS), and a recurring role in “Last Resort” (ABC). Additional TV work includes “CSI: NY” (CBS), “CSI: Miami” (CBS), “NCIS” (CBS), “90210” (The CW), “Enlightened” (HBO), and “Ringer” (The CW). He also starred in the indie SUNKEN CITY and the indie mockumentary ROCK BARNES: THE EMPEROR IN YOU.

A self-proclaimed “accidental” actor, Collins made his way west to Hollywood in pursuit of a public relations career after majoring in journalism at Ithaca College. He was a few years in with an entertainment PR firm when a successful talent manager and producer they shared a client with convinced him to take an acting class. Instantly hooked, acting was simply a hobby for Collins at first as he continued to work in personal publicity and build his freelance writing career. But successive projects with bigger roles – and budgets – soon followed, and it became clear to him that he had found his true calling: playing pretend for a living.

Collins grew up in Canajoharie, NY, a town west of state capital of Albany. Collins is a weekend warrior who enjoys playing league basketball and boxing, mountain biking, and ran his first Tough Mudder last spring.  He is an avid reader of Bernard Cornwell’s historical fiction and all things fantasy, a lover of all things comic book-related, and is a certified rock 'n' roll-ophile. He also enjoys getting his game on with World of Warcraft, old school Contra, or Magic: The Gathering.