Editing Chad Lowe (section)

==Early life==
Lowe was born in [[Dayton, Ohio]],<ref name=TV/> the son of Barbara Lynn Wilson ({{née|Hepler}}; 1939–2003), a teacher, and Charles Davis Lowe, a trial lawyer.<ref name=birthref/> His parents divorced when Lowe was young.<ref name="Lowe"/> He has an older brother, actor [[Rob Lowe]], and two half brothers from the second marriages of his parents, the producer Micah Dyer (maternal) and Justin Lowe (paternal). Lowe was [[baptized]] in the [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal Church]].<ref name="guardian">{{Cite news|url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/interview/interviewpages/0,,671671,00.html|work=The Guardian|location=London|title=Pretty witty|first=Simon|last=Fanshawe|date=March 23, 2002|access-date=October 14, 2012}}</ref> He is of [[Germans|German]], [[English people|English]], [[Irish people|Irish]], [[Scottish people|Scottish]], and [[Welsh people|Welsh]] ancestry.<ref>Stated on ''[[Who Do You Think You Are? (U.S. TV series)|Who Do You Think You Are?]]'', April 27, 2012</ref>

Lowe was raised in a "traditional midwestern setting"<ref name="guardian"/> in Dayton, attending Oakwood Junior High School, before moving to the Point Dume area of Malibu, California, with his mother and brother. He attended [[Santa Monica High School]], the same high school as fellow actors [[Holly Robinson Peete]], [[Emilio Estevez]], [[Charlie Sheen]], [[Sean Penn]], [[Chris Penn]], and [[Robert Downey Jr.]]<ref name="Lowe">{{cite web|title=Rob Lowe Biography|url=http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/rob-lowe.html|work=[[The Biography Channel|Bio]]|access-date=October 14, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901213448/http://www.thebiographychannel.co.uk/biographies/rob-lowe.html|archive-date=September 1, 2012}}</ref>