Chris Noth

Noth at his "Once Upon A Tea Cup" house in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, on February 9, 2008
Born Christopher David Noth
November 13, 1954 (1954-11-13) (age 55)
Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.
Other name(s) Christopher Noth
Occupation Actor
Years active 1988–present
Official website

Christopher David "Chris" Noth (born November 13, 1954) is an American actor and poet. He is known for two long-running television roles: as Det. Mike Logan on Law & Order and Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and as Mr. Big on Sex and the City. For the latter role, he has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award. He is currently starring in The Good Wife on CBS.

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[edit] Early life

The youngest of three sons, Noth was born in Madison, Wisconsin, the son of Jeanne Parr, a former CBS news reporter, and Charles Noth, an insurance salesman.[1] Noth's father died when he was nine. During his childhood, Noth traveled with his mother and brothers throughout the United Kingdom, Yugoslavia, and Spain.[2]

Noth spent a part of his undergraduate years at Marlboro College in Vermont,[3] where he built himself a log cabin.[4] He earned a MFA from Yale School of Drama where he acted in some 25 plays and was a pupil of acting coach Sanford Meisner.[2]

[edit] Career

Noth's first starring role was in the low-budget 1988 film Jakarta previous to which he had also played small parts in films including Smithereens (1982) and Baby Boom (1987). On television, Noth joined the cast of Hill Street Blues in the sixth season in 1986, where he was billed as "Christopher Noth." He also appeared in Another World. In 1988, he filmed a pilot for the legal/police drama series Law & Order. In 1990, NBC began airing the show, which slowly gained recognition from critics and fans.[5] Noth was fired from the show in 1995.[6] Personality differences between Noth and L&O creator/executive producer Dick Wolf settled down long enough to film a TV movie, Exiled: A Law & Order Movie (1998).

in 1998 Noth returned to prime-time television when he took the role of Carrie Bradshaw's enigmatic on-again, off-again boyfriend "Mr. Big" on HBO's Sex and the City.[5] He played the role for six years, during which he also appeared in a small role as Helen Hunt's husband in the hit film Cast Away (2000) and starred in a Broadway revival of The Best Man. In 2001, he played an FBI agent on a three-episode arc of Crossing Jordan, re-uniting him with Law & Order co-star Jill Hennessy. In 2005, Noth returned to the role of Mike Logan on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, joining the show in its fifth season following a guest appearance on a fourth-season episode.[5] On this spin-off of the original Law & Order, Noth's detective team alternates episodes with Vincent D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe's characters. On 26 June 2008, it was announced that Noth was leaving the series, and that Jeff Goldblum would be joining the cast.[7]

Noth reprised the role of Big for the Sex and the City film, released on 30 May 2008.[8] Currently, Noth is starring with Julianna Margulies in the CBS series The Good Wife, which debuted on 22 September 2009. Also in 2009, Noth became the spokesperson for the North American market for the Biotherm line of male skin-care products.[9]

[edit] Personal life

With Steve Walter, a former student of Berklee College of Music, Noth is co-owner of The Cutting Room, an intimate music venue in New York City that opened in late 1999.[10][11][12][13] Noth met his fiancée Tara Lynn Wilson while she was working at The Cutting Room, and their son, Orion Christopher Noth, was born in January 2008.[14][15] He also owned the semi-private club The Plumm with his girlfriend Tara Wilson, Noel Ashman, and others.[16][17]

Noth and Wilson also own Once Upon A Tea Cup, a tea-party themed restaurant franchise with branches in Windsor, Ontario, and London, Ontario.[18]

[edit] Filmography

[edit] References

  1. ^ filmreference.com: Chris Noth Biography (1954?-) Retrieved 21 June 2010
  2. ^ a b Starpulse.com Retrieved 21 June 2010
  3. ^ Yahoo Movies Retrieved 21 June 2010
  4. ^ TV Guide Retrieved 21 June 2010
  5. ^ a b c Stated in interview on Inside the Actors Studio
  6. ^ Vancouver Sun Retrieved 21 June 2010
  7. ^ "Jeff Goldblum Has 'Criminal Intent,'Chris Noth leaving 'Law & Order' series". Zap2it. http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-jeffgodlblumlandocriminalintent,0,2869315.story. Retrieved 2008-06-26. 
  8. ^ Yahoo news: "More 'Sex' puts Mr. Big on big screen" Retrieved 21 June 2010
  9. ^ Cosmetics mag Retrieved 21 June 2010
  10. ^ Cutting Room web site Retrieved 21 June 2010
  11. ^ boston.com traverl articles Retrieved 21 June 2010
  12. ^ Sydney Morning Herald Retrieved 21 June 2010
  13. ^ Lee, Linda (May 12, 2002). "GOOD COMPANY; There's a Party (and a Host) Somewhere Around Here". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/12/style/good-company-there-s-a-party-and-a-host-somewhere-around-here.html. Retrieved April 29, 2010. 
  14. ^ Chris Noth & His Girlfriend Have a Boy people.com retrieved 21 June 2010
  15. ^ Baltimore Sun Retrieved 21 June 2010
  16. ^ Cityfile: Chris Noth Retrieved 2010-05-30
  17. ^ Chris Noth Biography - Yahoo! Movies Retrieved 2010-05-30
  18. ^ Once Upon A Tea Cup Retrieved 21 June 2010

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1954年11月13日，克裡斯·諾斯出生在美國威斯康辛州的麥迪遜，他在家中排名第四，上有三個哥哥，阿爾薩斯後裔。在他十歲那年，父親由於一場交通意外離開了他們，他的親，一位CBS記者將他和兩個兄弟撫養長大。據說克裡斯小時候很頑皮讓母親非常頭痛。由於母親工作的原因，他們經常要搬家，英國、南斯拉夫、西班牙……在不斷地遷徙中，克裡斯領略到了各國文化並且學會如何積極堅強地去面對困難與挫折。母親得知克裡斯熱愛戲劇後，便極鼓勵他投身其中，不負母望的克裡斯考入耶魯大學戲劇系學習表演。

　　克裡斯的電影處女作是「Off Beat」，他在其中飾一個次要角色。其後又出演了「Smithereens」「Baby Boom」以及迷你劇集「I'll Take Manhattan」（茱麗安·摩爾也曾在該片中出演女配角）和電影「Jakarta」。直到1989年，才終於獲得了一個對他的演藝事業相當有幫助的機會，那就是出演當紅警匪影集《法網游龍》中英俊機智的麥克警探，自此克裡斯·諾斯在美國家喻戶曉。

　　1995年克裡斯離開《法網游龍》之後，接演了許多截然不同的角色，挑戰自己的各種戲路。他演過平民英雄類的聯邦探員，協助一架受歹徒挾持的民航機安全降落演過毫無心理準備的年輕父親，從失職的母親手中「綁架」親生女兒的悲喜劇；甚至演過令人毛骨悚然的變態殺手。但由於麥克警探一角深入人心，經過三年來各地影迷的書信郵件催促，克裡斯與他的多年合夥伴查理·科普斯共同編寫並出演《法網游龍》的電視電影版本，讓麥克警探重回舊管區，該特別節目當時於1998年11月播出。
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