Chris Noth Biography

Christopher David "Chris" Noth ( ; born November 13, 1954) is an American actor. He is known for his television roles as Detective Mike Logan on Law & Order (1990-95), Mr. Big on Sex and the City (1998-2004), and Peter Florrick on The Good Wife (2009-16). He reprised his role of Mike Logan on Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2005-08), and reprised his role of Mr. Big in the films, Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010). He has twice been nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television.

Early life

Noth was born in Madison, Wisconsin, one of three sons of Jeanne L. Parr (March 30, 1924 - May 20, 2016), a former CBS News correspondent, and Charles James Noth, an insurance salesman turned marketing-company executive who died after a car accident in 1966.

Noth has German and Irish ancestry. During childhood, Noth traveled with his mother and brothers throughout the United Kingdom, Spain and Czechoslovakia. Chris reminds people that his last name rhymes with "both."

Noth spent part of his undergraduate years at Marlboro College, where he built a cabin for himself. He earned an MFA from the Yale School of Drama, where he acted in some 25 plays and was a pupil of acting coach Sanford Meisner.

Career

Noth played small parts in films, including Smithereens (1982) and Baby Boom (1987) before his first starring role in the low-budget 1988 film Peluru dan Wanita (Bullets & Women) in Indonesia. 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. He filmed a pilot for the legal/police drama series Law & Order in 1988. In 1990 NBC began airing the show, which slowly gained recognition from critics and fans. Noth was fired from the show in 1995. 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 "Big" on HBO's Sex and the City. 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. Noth returned to the role of Mike Logan on Law & Order: Criminal Intent in 2005, joining the show in its fifth season following a guest appearance on a fourth-season episode. On this spin-off of the original Law & Order, Noth's detective team alternated episodes with Vincent D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe's characters. On June 26, 2008, it was announced that Noth was leaving the series, and that Jeff Goldblum would be joining the cast.

Noth reprised the role of Big for the Sex and the City film, released on May 30, 2008. and its 2010 sequel. Noth stars with Julianna Margulies in the CBS series The Good Wife, which debuted on September 22, 2009. Also in 2009, Noth became the spokesperson for the North American market for the Biotherm line of male skin-care products.

Noth starred in a revival of Gore Vidal's 1960 Broadway play The Best Man in 2000, and also starred in a Broadway revival of the 1972 play That Championship Season in 2011, playing Phil Romano, a role originated by his one-time Law & Order co-star Paul Sorvino. In 2013 he appeared in the Napa Valley, California, theater festival Plaza Del Sol with other performers including Dennis Haysbert.

Personal life

Noth is co-owner of The Cutting Room, a music venue in New York City that opened in late 1999, with Steve Walter, a former student at Berklee College of Music.

Noth met his wife, Tara Lynn Wilson, while he was working the bar at The Cutting Room. Wilson has appeared in Frame of Mind and Law and Order: Criminal Intent before Noth joined the cast. The couple began dating in 2004. Their son, Orion Christopher Noth, was born in January 2008., and the couple married on April 6, 2012.

Noth also owned the semi-private club The Plumm with Noel Ashman, David Wells, Damon Dash, Ann Dexter-Jones, Joey McIntyre, and Bo Dietl. Noth and Wilson owned Once Upon a Tea Cup, a tea-party themed restaurant franchise with branches in Windsor and London, Ontario (both locations now closed). He is also a supporter of Da Marino in New York City, where he has performed as a singer.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1981	Cutter's Way	Guard	Uncredited
1981	Waitress!	Cowley's office
1982	Smithereens	Prostitute
1986	Off Beat	Ely Wareham, Jr.
1987	Baby Boom	Yuppie Husband
1988	Peluru dan Wanita	Falco
1993	Naked in New York	Jason Brett
1995	Burnzy's Last Call	Kevin
1995	Nothing Last Forever	Dr. Ken Mallory
1997	The Deli	Sal
1997	Cold Around the Heart	T
1998	The Broken Giant	Jack Frey
1999	Getting to Know You	Sonny
1999	The Confessions	Camposo
1999	A Texas Funeral	Clinton
1999	Pigeonholed	Devon's father
2000	The Acting Class	Martin Ballsac
2000	Cast Away	Jerry Lovett
2001	Double Whammy	Chick Dimitri
2001	The Glass House	Uncle Jack
2002	Searching for Paradise	Michael De Santis
2004	Mr. 3000	Schiembri
2004	Tooth Fairy	Dad	Short film
2005	The Perfect Man	Ben Cooper
2008	Sex and the City	Mr. Big
2008	Frame of Mind	Steve Lynde
2009	My One and Only	Harlan
2010	Sex and the City 2	Mr. Big
2010	Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths	Lex Luthor
2010	Sure Fire Hit	Tony
2012	From Up on Poppy Hill	Akio Kazama
2013	Lovelace	Anthony Romano
2014	Elsa & Fred	Jack
2015	After the Ball	Lee Kassell
2016	White Girl	George Fratelli
2016	Chronically Metropolitan	Christopher	Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Killer in the Mirror	Johnny Mathews	Television movie
1986	Hill Street Blues	Officer Ron Lipsky	3 episodes
1986	Apology	Roy Burnette	Television movie
1987	At Mother's Request	Steve Klein	Television movie
1987	I'll Take Manhattan	Fred Knox	Television movie
1989	Monsters	The Devil	Episode: "Satan in the Suburbs"
1990-1995	Law & Order	Mike Logan	111 episodes
1993	With Harmful Intent	Dr. Ferries	Television movie
1994	Where Are My Children?	Cliff Vernon	Television movie
1995	Homicide: Life on the Street	Mike Logan	Episode: "Law & Disorder"
1996	Abducted: A Father's Love	Larry Coster	Television movie
1996	Born Free: A New Adventure	Dr. David Thompson	Television movie
1997	Rough Riders	Craig Wadsworth	Television movie
1997	Touched by an Angel	Carl Atwater	Episode: "Full Moon"
1997	Medusa's Child	Tony DiStefano	Television movie
1998-2004	Sex and the City	Mr. Big	41 episodes
1998	Exiled: A Law & Order Movie	Mike Logan	Television movie
2001	Crossing Jordan	FBI Special Agent Drew Haley	2 episodes
2001	The Judge	Paul Madriani	Television movie
2003	Julius Caesar	Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus	Television miniseries
2004	Bad Apple	Mike Tozzi	Television movie
2005-2008	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Mike Logan	36 episodes
2009-2016	The Good Wife	Peter Florrick	101 episodes
2012	Titanic: Blood and Steel	J.P. Morgan	6 episodes
2016	Tyrant	General Cogswell	10 episodes

Awards and nominations

Year	Association	Category	Nominated work	Result
1994	Viewers for Quality Television	Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series	Law & Order
1995	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
1996	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
2000	Golden Globe Awards	Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film	Sex and the City
2003	Satellite Awards	Best Supporting Actor - Television Series
2009	People's Choice Awards	Favorite Cast	Sex and the City
2011	Golden Globe Awards	Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or Television Film	The Good Wife
	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series
2012	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series