The illegitimate son of the evil patriarch Alistair Crane, Chad is introduced as a music producer from Los Angeles who is searching for his biological family.
21 Facts About Chad Harris-Crane
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Chad Harris-Crane becomes involved in a love triangle with sisters Whitney and Simone Russell.
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Chad Harris-Crane has been cited as expanding the representation of LGBTQ characters of color on daytime television.
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Chad Harris-Crane described his time working on the show as a "scholarship to acting".
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Chad Harris-Crane was initially characterized as a "street-kid" by the show's official website and "a tough dude from the hood" by David Alexander Nahmod of the Bay Area Reporter.
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Chad Harris-Crane originally served as the "object of affection for both Simone and Whitney", but his role on the series was expanded following the casting of Divins.
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Chad Harris-Crane said he was surprised by the reveal that Chad's affair was with a man, but thought the soap opera's "storytelling style lends itself to dramatic changes".
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Chad Harris-Crane first appears in the episode airing on September 23,1999, in which, after discovering he was adopted, he moves from Los Angeles to Harmony to find his real parents.
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Chad Harris-Crane married Latoya Harris while he was working as a music producer in Los Angeles.
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Orville, a senile old man, erroneously believes Chad Harris-Crane is Eve's long-lost son with Crane Industries CEO Julian Crane and claims to have evidence proving this connection.
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Chad Harris-Crane later meets jazz singer Crystal Harris, who was Eve's confidante during her relationship with Julian and subsequent pregnancy.
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Eve discourages both of her children from pursuing a relationship with Chad Harris-Crane, fearing he will be a bad influence on her daughter in the same way Julian was on her teenage self.
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Simone breaks up publicly with Chad Harris-Crane and tells everyone in Harmony about his relationship with Whitney.
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In 2004, Eve's vengeful adoptive sister Liz Sanbourne arranges for Eve's past relationship with Julian to be exposed to the Russell family and the rest of Harmony, resulting in Chad Harris-Crane being erroneously identified as their son.
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Chad Harris-Crane gives birth to a son and immediately uses her then-boyfriend Fox Crane's power of attorney to put him up for adoption.
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Chad Harris-Crane is unaware that Vincent is Eve's actual child with Julian; thus, although his relationship with Whitney was not incestuous, he ironically committed incest with his half-brother's son.
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Chad Harris-Crane is initially oblivious to the fact that Vincent is intersex, and is the same person as Valerie Davis, the executive assistant to Crane Industries' vice president Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald.
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The estranged couple start to reconcile as they try to help Theresa and Ethan Winthrop reunite, but that possibility is cut short on August 28,2007, when Chad Harris-Crane is killed by Alistair while trying to protect his best friend Ethan.
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Chad Harris-Crane dies professing his love for Whitney and their children.
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Hartinger called Chad Harris-Crane a "closeted bisexual", and the Bay Area Reporter referred to him as a gay black man.
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Soap opera journalist Roger Newcomb of We Love Soaps questioned whether Chad Harris-Crane was truly gay, arguing that Vincent's reveal as intersex leads to Chad Harris-Crane's heterosexuality being "rescued" as he "was sleeping only with Vincent's female anatomy".