Nate Archibald (Gossip Girl)

Nate Archibald
Gossip Girl character
Chace Crawford as Nathaniel Archibald
First appearance	Novel: Gossip Girl Television: "Pilot" (episode 1.01)
Last appearance	Novel: I Will Always Love You Television: "New York, I Love You XOXO" (episode 6.10)
Created by	Character Cecily von Ziegesar Developed for Television Josh Schwartz Stephanie Savage
Portrayed by	Chace Crawford
Information
Full name	Nathaniel Fitzwilliam Archibald
Nickname(s)	Nate Nathaniel (by his grandfather and Chuck) Novels: Natie (by Serena and Blair)
Aliases	N Golden Boy
Gender	Male
Occupation	Novels: Sailor and lacrosse captain High school student (at St. Jude's; graduated) College student (at Yale; later Deep Springs College) Television: High school student (at St. Jude's; graduated) College student (at Columbia) Editor-in-chief (at The New York Spectator)
Family	Novels: Captain Archibald (father) Mrs. Archibald (mother) Television: Howard Archibald (father) Anne Archibald (mother; née van der Bilt) William van der Bilt I (maternal grandfather) William van der Bilt II (maternal uncle) William "Tripp" van der Bilt III (first cousin)

Nathaniel Fitzwilliam "Nate" Archibald is a character in the best selling Gossip Girl book series. He is portrayed by Chace Crawford in the television series of the same name. In the novels, he is considered the primary male character, always being fought over by the two most prominent females, Blair Waldorf and Serena van der Woodsen.

Nate Archibald is a lacrosse player at the elite St. Jude's School for Boys. His mother, Anne Archibald, is a French socialite, and his father, Captain Archibald, is a former Navy captain and a wealthy banker. His closest friends are Chuck Bass, Serena van der Woodsen and Blair Waldorf.

He has been dating Blair since middle school. However, Nate is shown to have deep, unresolved feelings for Serena. They have sex during the summer at a wedding. He reveals this to Blair in the first novel after Serena returns, and right before they were supposed to lose their virginity to each other, which causes their first breakup. He gets together with freshman Jenny Humphrey, but later dumps her for Blair for being too clingy. He and Blair have an on-again-off-again relationship throughout most of the novels.

Nate's family resides in a stately townhouse off Park Avenue on the exclusive Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, and his mother's French socialite family owns a summer chateau in Nice. He is a fan of sailing like his father, and wished to do that instead of attending Yale with Blair, although he expressed interest in attending Brown University. At the end of the series he sails around the world with a friend of his father's, Captain Charles "Chips" White to avoid getting in between Blair and Serena again. In I Will Aways Love You, on break from Deep Springs College, Nate chooses Blair in part I and then Serena in part II.