WILL ANTHROS
Chris Bowers
Character Biography:
William Maretta Anthros was born in the winter of ’76 in Danville, CA to Anthony and Helen Anthros. At the time of Will’s birth his father was a highly respected Biochemical Engineer and his mother was a Supervising Registered Nurse. Most of Will’s early childhood was spent moving from school to school due to his father’s work. It was this lack of social stability and no real sense of home that led Will to gravitate towards academics, an area in which he shone brightly. Throughout grade school Will excelled in all of his classes but leaned towards math and sciences.
By Will’s 13th birthday his father, Dr. Anthros, received a grant through the U.S. Military to research and develop more sophisticated prosthetic limbs for soldiers injured in the Gulf War, which he hoped would then benefit the general public years down the line. Dr. Anthros’ job planted the Anthros family in one place for the first time since Will was born and as a result his confidence blossomed. Throughout high school, Will held various positions in Student Government and participated in several extra curricular activities including the Model U.N., Honor Society, and Track and Field where he set school records in Pole Vault and 1000m.
Upon graduating as Salutatorian of his high school class, Will was accepted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied Chemical Engineering and Medicine. After completing his undergraduate, Will continued his studies at Harvard/M.I.T.’s prestigious School of Medicine. Throughout this time he continued to participate in Student Government and found himself organizing protests against various injustices as well as helping gather aid for the refugees of the Kosovo Conflict. He wrote his thesis on, “Ethics In American Medicine and It’s Effect On Global Healthcare”.
In 2004, at the age of 27, Will graduated from Medical School and accepted a university teaching position. While lecturing a class on Bio/Environmental Ethics in Spring of 2007, Will would meet his future girlfriend Jaime Sommers.
Will was brought onboard as Head Surgeon at the Berkut Group to help after his father’s sudden departure. He was able to decode his father’s research journals and convinced the senior officials to let him continue research and development in the Bionics program on a limited scale and with strict guidelines against human experimentation. He has been successfully captaining the Bionics Program for 3 years now without incident.
Actor Biography:
Chris Bowers, son of an American foreign service officer, was born in Panama and has lived in Poland, Singapore and attended high school in Bonn, Germany. In between overseas posts, home was Arlington, Virginia. His father was the United States Ambassador to Bolivia in the mid-1990s and his sister was a competitive, nationally-ranked swimmer.
Bowers graduated Brown University with a bachelors of arts degree in semiotics and English literature. He studied acting in New York City with instructor Maggie Flanigan, and landed his first professional acting job on Broadway in Arthur Miller’s “After the Fall." Most recently, Bowers has made guest appearances on “Rescue Me” and NBC’s “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."
Prior to pursuing acting full-time, Bowers was a rock musician, playing guitar and bass. He has toured supporting and shared billing with such acts as Cheap Trick, Joey Ramone and Joan Jett. In his free time, Bowers enjoys board sports and playing music.
Bowers currently resides in New York City and his birthday is December 26.
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