Stacie Orrico

Up-and-comer Trevor Wright is used to making a big impression in as little time as possible. First, the California boy's appearance in pop singer Stacie Orrico's "Stuck" video so wowed the TRL crowd that he was invited to return in a follow-up clip. And tonight at 10 pm/ET, you can catch the Tiger Beat dreamboat in what sounds like an especially nasty episode of ABC's NYPD Blue.

"It's a great part," he tells TV Guide Online with enthusiasm. "I play a guy who made a suicide pact with his 15-year-old girlfriend because she got pregnant, but my intentions were never to actually kill myself. So it's sort of Romeo and Juliet with a twist — [this time] Romeo's a [jerk]!"

Messing with his Clearasil-heartthrob image at this early stage in the game might seem like career hari-kari for Wright, who starred with a snowboarding chimp in his first feature, MXP: Most Extreme Primate. But the ambitious actor has his e read more