 As an actor, Chel White had a role in "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" (1993), playing a brain surgeon in a scene with Uma Thurman.In December 2005, White and his then-girlfriend Laura Ivey were stranded in a mountain snowstorm for four days, in the Cascade Mountains, Oregon.They were found by Marion County, Oregon Search and Rescue officers who traveled to the remote location by snowmobile.