User:Zythe/Chloe Sullivan

Chloe Sullivan is a fictional character from the television series Smallville, played by Allison Mack. Introduced by Smallville creators to be a "Lois Lane archetype" (but not Lois herself). She was created independently of the canonical, although DC Comics since acquired the character and have plans to introduce her to mainstream continuity in 2008.

Chloe was reporter and editor at Smallville High's The Torch newspaper (named after Jerry Siegel's school paper). She is in the same grade as Pete Ross, Lana Lang, and Clark Kent. At one time she maintained the "Wall of Weird" — a collection of articles concerning the often bizarre and eerie events that take place in Smallville, many of which are related to the mutagenic effects of kryptonite left over from the meteor shower of 1989.

Casting
Allison Mack toyed with the idea of auditioning for the role of Lana Lang, but chose instead to audition for the role of Chloe Sullivan. The character was created just for the series, and was intended to add ethnic diversity to the cast. Part of the reason she was cast was because Gough and Millar felt she had a "rare ability to deliver large chunks of expositionary [sic] dialogue conversationally."