The world knows many cult TV shows. Entire generations grow on them, and their heroes become idols. The American series "One Tree Hill", released in September 2003, was no exception to this rule. The actors, along with screenwriters and directors, did their job with their vibrant game, and for nine seasons people around the world, with bated breath, followed the life of the characters. The plot of the series tells the story of a small American town. Two guys, Lucas and Nathan, bear the same loud surname in their city - Scott. Nathan lives with their common rich father Dan in a posh house, and Lucas and his mother try to make ends meet in order to pay bills for water and electricity. A different fate created a huge gap between the brothers, until their common love for basketball united them again in their hometown called One Tree Hill. Actors who played roles filled with complex meaning were loved by viewers. Therefore, both they and their characters deserve more detailed consideration.
Lucas scott
One of the main male roles was played by actor Chad Michael Murray. The life of his hero, young Lucas, was supposed to be the most ordinary - the average parents, parties with friends on the basketball team, no worries.
But his fate was changed even before his birth, when his beloved mother abandoned his pregnant mother, barely graduated from school. It would seem that the story is not so rare if his father did not become one of the most influential people in the city and constantly did not make an eyesore for the guy thrown. A single mom, financial difficulties and an eternal resentment against his father made him a loner. In the afternoon, he loves to play basketball on a playground in the park, and spends evenings reading books.
Chad Michael Murray himself felt the need. When the parents divorced, the 12-year-old boy worked part-time as best he could: a janitor, a peddler of newspapers. So he could play his role as the sole support of his mother very realistically.
Nathan Scott
James Lafferty played the brother of Lucas - Nathan. The young man grew up in a wealthy family, which was imprinted on his character. The guy is eccentric, narcissistic, selfish and always used to get everything he wants. So did his father Dan Scott, who expects from him constant basketball victories. Instead of intimate conversations around the fire and fishing with his father, Nathan received from Dan only constant reproaches and heard the demands that he had to meet. Outwardly, it seems that only his brother Lucas was deprived of fatherly love, but in fact, both guys never received it.
James Lafferty himself, before he got the role of Nathan, played basketball for a long time. He played as part of the University of California team and was even awarded the most valuable player. To take part in the filming, he had to drop out of school and move to the town of Wilmington, where the filming took place.
Hayley James Scott
Another owner of the high-profile surname Scott in the city was the modest girl Haley. Played her singer Bethany Joy Lenz. Haley is a good girl from a modest family. Her parents are not rich and, despite this, never allow themselves to be sad. The same view was held by their daughter. Fate decreed rather ironically, Lucas's best friend eventually began to bear his last name, marrying his brother.
Narcissistic Nathan and high school student Haley at first glance seem like a strange couple. But over and overcoming all the obstacles in their path, they will ultimately prove to everyone that true family happiness exists even in such an initially doomed relationship. It was their union that became the strongest and most indicative in the whole picture "One Tree Hill". The television series showed the audience how couples break up, but Nathan and Haley Scott were together from the very first to the last season. Bethany herself at the time of filming the third season got married, but this marriage was unsuccessful. So all that unites her and Haley is a passion for music.
Payton Sawyer
The magnificent actress Hilary Burton got the role of her beloved Lucas, but she did not immediately become her. Clever, bright, beautiful, a little sad, and at the same time unusually creative, Payton first met with Lucas's brother. It was she who was the first to see in him something more than just a star of the school basketball team. But in the end, fate will bring her to Lucas, the very person who is destined to make her happy.
Like most heroes, Hilary Burton is close to her heroine. She became independent very early, just like Payton, who had lost her mother early and lived on her own while her father worked at sea. When the actress moved to New York, she was able to achieve her dream and got the coveted VJ position on MTV. It is noteworthy that her heroine also worked in the musical field.
Brooke davis
Actress Sophia Bush in the series played a rather controversial role. On the one hand, she is a rich young lady who does not take into account the feelings of others and has rather limited interests. On the other hand, she is an incredibly kind and sympathetic girl with a pure heart and clever judgments. This is probably why she was able to attract the mysterious Lucas.
By the way, the life of the artists who played these two roles, radically changed the series "One Tree Hill". The actors, meeting on the set, quickly fell in love and got married. But unfortunately, they divorced in the same year that they got married. According to rumors, the cause of the gap was the infidelity of Chad.
Dan scott
The role of the main villain of the series went to actor Paul Johansson. Dan used to be the best in everything: the star of the school basketball team, the husband of a girl from a wealthy family, the owner of a large house and a successful business. But to get it all, he abandoned his pregnant school girlfriend and this forever tarnished his reputation. Over the course of eight seasons, the hero is revealed from the worst side. He cheats, blackmails and even kills his own brother. Having ruined the life of all his relatives, he ultimately decides to reform and regain his family’s disposition. Paul, like his hero, grew up in the family of an athlete and from childhood he was fond of sports, including basketball. For two years he even played in the Canadian national basketball team.
Karen Rowe
Karen, the mother of Lucas, in the series personifies an example of a strong and truly loving woman.
Actress
Moira Kelly was able to convey to the viewer the whole idea embedded in the image of her heroine. Left with the child in her arms and without education behind her, she gets to her feet, educates Lucas an honest and decent man. In the life of the actress, there was a similar moment when she left the film industry to give more time to raising children. As a result, years later, she returned and continued to build a career, as if this break was not at all. It happened in the same way with her heroine.
Marvin Maut McFadden
Against the backdrop of the bright characters of the series, you will not immediately notice how the life of the young man Marvin, played by Lee Norris, flows. Faithful and faithful, he always remains somewhere in the shade. Girls perceive him only as a friend, classmates mock, even his best friend dies. But all these circumstances did not embitter Maut, and ultimately he becomes significant for his city under the name of One Tree Hill. The television series shows how important it is to have a dream and go to it, it is through this seemingly plain-looking hero. Maut, for his ability to wait, got the post of a news presenter and a beautiful girl. The actor himself admitted that in his youth he really had problems with girls, but today he lives with his beautiful wife and has left all past troubles in the past.
Millicent Huxtable
Lisa Goldstein in the role of assistant Brooke Davis appeared only in the fifth season of the cult series. The modest, unprepossessing and even a little notorious Millicent gradually blossomed in front of the viewers under the strict guidance of Brooke. The girl had everything: mind, natural beauty, sense of humor.
All that was lacking was the confidence which, having gained, she also gained her lover - Marvin McFadden, who at one time, like her, suffered from the fact that everyone around him considered him a failure. The actress, just like
Sophia Bush, became the one to whom the television picture "Hill of One Tree" presented the family happiness. The actors met on the set. Brendan Kirsch played only a few episodic roles, but they were enough for Lisa to notice him. Currently, they live in a happy union and raise a child.
So, for several years of its existence, the youth series has changed the fate of people. Actors fell in love, met and married, the audience learned from the mistakes of the heroes. The cult series will remain in the memory of people for a long time.