Cast Bios

Jesse Spencer Dr. Robert Chase

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Jesse Spencer's film credits include a starring role in "Uptown Girls" with Brittany Murphy, the biopic "Swimming Upstream" with Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis and the independent film "Flourish" by up-and-coming writer/director Kevin Palys, starring in the lead role of "Eddie Gator."

Spencer has worked extensively in the U.K. and Australia, both in television and on stage. He starred in the acclaimed BBC drama "Death in Holy Orders" and has had starring roles in the BBC adaptation of "Lorna Doone" and Hallmark's "Stranded." He began his career starring in the long-running Australian soap, "Neighbours."

The Australian actor's lead roles in the theater have included "Terrence" in "The Modernists," directed by Robert Delamare at the Sheffield Crucible Theatre, and the title role in "Peter Pan" at the Hammond Theatre.

Spencer lives in Los Angeles.

Dr. Robert Chase is generally amiable and eager to please his boss, particularly if in doing so he's also protecting his own interests.

A former seminary student, Chase's early life was one of privilege, but it was also marked by the death of his alcoholic mother and the failings of his renowned doctor father. Chase was estranged from his father when he learned of his death from lung cancer.

Chase dated fellow doctor Allison Cameron, and the two were briefly married. However, they were irrevocably split following the case of African dictator Dibala, whose death Chase helped facilitate, arguing that in doing so he was saving the lives of many others threatened by the genocidal leader. Cameron suggested that Chase had changed, for the worse, by working with House.