Andrew Shue's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Melrose Place Billy Campb…

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BIOGRAPHY:

Andrew Eppley Shue (born February 20, 1967) is an American actor, known for his role as Billy Campbell on the television series Melrose Place (1992–1998). He is on the Board of Directors for Do Something (which he co-founded) and is the co-founder of the social networking website CafeMom.

Born in Wilmington, Delaware. His mother, Anne Brewster (née Wells), is a bank executive who was the vice president of the private division of the Chemical Bank Corporation. His father, James W. Shue (d. May 24, 2013), was a lawyer and real estate developer who was the president of the International Food and Beverage Corporation and was active in Republican politics, having once unsuccessfully run for the U.S. Congress in New Jersey. His mother was a descendant of Pilgrim leader William Brewster and his father has German ancestry from Pennsylvania.

Shue attended Columbia High School in Maplewood, New Jersey. As a young boy, he attended YMCA Camp Widjiwagan, backpacking in the Absaroka Range with a friend from the midwest. Along with his sister, actress Elisabeth Shue, he was inducted into the CHS Hall of fame in 1994. At Dartmouth College, as he was in high school, Shue was a Regional All America soccer player and spent a winter studying and playing soccer in Glasgow, Scotland for Queen's Park FC. Shue received his B.A. in history from Dartmouth in 1989. After graduating, he visited Zimbabwe, where he simultaneously played soccer and taught high school math.

From 1994-2008 he was married to floral designer Jennifer Hageney. Together they had three sons Nate (1997), Aidan (1999), and Wyatt (2004). They divorced.

Shue met former The Today Show co-anchor and ABC News correspondent Amy Robach in April 2009 at a book party; by September they were engaged. They were married on Robach's 37th birthday, (February 6, 2010) at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers, adjacent to the Hudson River. She brings to their marriage her two daughters Ava (2003) and Analise (2006).


TRIVIA:

• 1989 graduate of Dartmouth College (undergrad)
• Brother-in-law of 'Davis Guggenheim' (qv).
• Co-founder of the "DO Something" foundation.
• Plays soccer for the 'Los Angeles Galaxy' in the professional soccer league (aka MLS - Major League Soccer) [1996]
• The first child of Andrew Shue, Nathaniel William, was born the 1st August 1996.
• He lived in Zimbabwe for a year and played for the Highlanders football team. He still has a passion for Africa and in February 2004 he met with Zimbabwean filmmaker 'Chloe Traicos' (qv) and discussed the current situation with her.
• Like his sister, Elisabeth Shue, Andrew named his son after their late brother, William, who died at the family's summer home on Block Island, Rhode Island (off Long Island).
• Brother of 'Elisabeth Shue' (qv)