Chuck Bartowski | |
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Chuck character | |
Zachary Levi as Chuck Bartowski
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First appearance | "Chuck Versus the Intersect" |
Last appearance | "Chuck Versus the Goodbye" |
Portrayed by |
Zachary Levi Joshua Rush (Young Chuck) |
Information | |
Nickname(s) | Chuck, Chuckles |
Aliases |
Charles Carmichael |
Gender | Male |
Occupation | Former CIA Agent Nerd Herd Supervisor Owner of the Burbank Buy More & Private intelligence company (Carmichael Industries) |
Title | Special Agent |
Family |
Dr. Ellie Bartowski-Woodcomb (sister) Stephen J. Bartowski (father; deceased) Mary Elizabeth Bartowski (mother) Dr. Devon Woodcomb (brother-in-law) Clara Woodcomb (niece) Jack Burton (father-in-law) Jesse Gunter (maternal grandfather) Mary Gunter (maternal grandmother) |
Spouse(s) | Sarah Lisa Bartowski |
Born | September 18, 1981 |
Affiliation |
Central Intelligence Agency Operation Bartowski Buy More Carmichael Industries Morgan Grimes (best friend, partner-cum-employee) Sarah Walker (partner/wife) John Casey (partner-cum-employee) Brigadier General M. Diane Beckman (former commanding officer) |
Expertise | Computer expert and genius level intellect; Exceptionally high rate of subliminal information retention; Engineering and Electronics Expert (Engineering Diploma attained from Stanford University in 2008); Espionage and self-defense training; Strong marksmanship skills (honed through Duck Hunt); Intersect provides instantaneous access to high-level classified government information (Level 6 Clearance) and advanced skills via "flashes". |
Charles Carmichael
The Intersect (codename)
Piranha (hacker)
Charles Irving "Chuck" Bartowski is the main and title role character of the American fiction television show Chuck on NBC. He is portrayed by Zachary Levi. UGO.com named him one of the best TV nerds.
At the outset of the show, Chuck Bartowski is presented as a twenty-something underachiever who lives in the Echo Park Section of Los Angeles, California and works at a dead end job at the Burbank Buy More in its Nerd Herd division (a fictionalized Geek Squad). Chuck's life stalled after his college roommate, Bryce Larkin, planted test answers under Chuck's bed and then reported him to the officials, which led to Chuck's expulsion from Stanford University (where he was a scholarship student) in 2002 — only twelve credits shy of completing his Bachelor of Engineering degree. For a long time, Chuck hated Bryce for his betrayal, but he later learns that Bryce got him expelled to protect him from being recruited into the CIA because he knew Chuck wouldn't survive in the field. He also lost his college girlfriend, Jill Roberts (Jordana Brewster). Following his expulsion, Chuck moved in with his sister and began working at the Burbank, California branch of Buy More. At some point over the next five years Chuck becomes the Nerd Herd supervisor.
That's his job at the time of the pilot, when the viewers are introduced to the key people in Chuck's current life: his older sister, Eleanor Fay "Ellie" Bartowski, M.D. (Sarah Lancaster), her live-in boyfriend, Devon "Captain Awesome" Woodcomb (Ryan McPartlin) and Chuck's best friend since childhood, Morgan Grimes. Very little else is known about his family. His mother left when Chuck was in the fifth grade and his father was "never really around" even before he also left (roughly eleven years ago), so Chuck and Ellie increasingly had to fend for themselves.