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BIOGRAPHY

Charlie was born as Charles Fowler Spillers II on January 15, 1987 in South Miami Hospital of Miami, Florida. His biological parents are Kim and David. However, when Charlie was just six months old, his parents divorced. His mom re-married soon after to Kevin Hand. It was his mom's request that Charlie became known as Charlie Hand, because she preferred that he had her last name. This was also because his mom and his dad had a falling out and Charlie would not see him again for five-or-so years. However, Charlie now has a healthy relationship with his biological parents and step-dad. He was known as Hand for a while before using his legal name once again, which will also be his stage name.

Charlie was born and raised in Miami, Florida and had always been interested in movies and performing. He would often do skits around the house with his brothers, though they were most unwilling to oblige. He doesn't know when he got interested in performing; he just knows it was at a young age where this interest first emerged. Charlie had also always been very shy, so he never had the urge to take an acting course until the end of eighth grade.

Soon Charlie would enroll in Miami Palmetto Senior High School where he would take his first acting course. He was very excited considering Palmetto's reputation -- he was excited to become a real actor rather than just a fan. His first assignment would be to write a monologue and then perform it. It took a lot of guts and a lot of anxiety to get over to actually step on stage and speak his own words. It was then that Charlie understood why performers were some of the bravest people around.

Charlie remained involved in the acting program at Palmetto for the rest of his years there. Just the next year he was cast in his first lead role, in Flowers for Algernon. He also did many competition pieces, such as "Antic Spring" and "Crosses to Bear," earning him an All-Star Cast award. He also competed with individual events and even won an acting scholarship out of his whole district in his senior year. At Palmetto, he also did other plays such as Once Upon A Mattress and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Soon after graduating from Palmetto as an Honor Thespian, he discovered his love for film acting. That is where his true ambition lies because he appreciates the level of realism it takes to act in a movie. Charlie has done student films at both the University of Miami and Florida State University.

FSU was his college of choice for a degree in theatre. He is still working hard to secure his dream of being successful in the film business.