Charley Smith

Actor and model Charley Smith, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, was adopted a few months old by his loving parents, Doug and Christy. He is of Japanese and Hawaiian decent from his biological parents, another word for his mixed ethnicity is Hapa. Charley still has not met his biological family but stays in touch with a few of them via social media after finding out their names at the age of 18. Charley attended private christian school through his whole academic life, elementary school through high school. He left private christian school January of his junior year to avoid being suspended or even expelled for his sexuality. Graduating out of his junior year with his GED. In 2006, at the age of 8, Charley took his first stage role as Hunter #2 in Red Riding Hood and since then has been in 9 more performances including some of Shakespeare's plays. He has been Macbeth, Hamlet, Bassanio, Petruchio, and Christopher Sly just to name a few. Can You Hear Them Crying was a one act play in remembrance of the Holocaust Charley was in. A second act was added by the director where each actor brought an art piece he or she had prepared and Charley interviewed a holocaust survivor and presented the interview edited in video format. Along with his stage career, since 2010 up to now, he also creates videos for his YouTube channel. Charley Smith ventured from stage to film when he starred as an extra in his first feature, At the End of the Day. Appearing as a runner in a 'fun run' for funds to build an LGBT teen shelter and later playing himself taking on the role of a scared and emotionally hurt teenager who was rejected by his family for being gay and went to a LGBT teen shelter where he received effective and caring counseling. Having been in stage plays for the majority of his life, creating his own YouTube videos for almost a decade, and expanding his social network, has begun his career in film.