He played Spencer Cassadine on the ABC soap opera General Hospital from 2021 to 2024, for which he won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Performer in a Drama Series.
At an early age, Chavez developed an interest in performing, including recreating the blessing of the Eucharist, which he saw at Sunday Mass.
[5] Chavez attended East High School, where he played football and joined the speech and debate team headed by his mentor, Matt Murphy.
When Murphy took over the drama department a year later, he recruited Chavez, then a junior, to play Atticus Finch in the school's production of To Kill a Mockingbird.
[7] After two years, Chavez took a leave of absence from Rutgers and relocated to Los Angeles to pursue acting full time.
[12] In 2023, Chavez was cast in the second season of Ryan Murphy's Netflix anthology series Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story (2024).