Chris Noth starred in the first two seasons of the 2021 revival of The Equalizer, on CBS, and appeared in And Just Like That.
50 Facts About Chris Noth
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Chris Noth was born November 13,1954, in Madison, Wisconsin, the youngest of three boys, to news reporter Jeanne Parr.
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Chris Noth's family settled in Stamford, Connecticut, when he was five.
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Chris Noth grew up in Connecticut while his parents worked in New York City.
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Chris Noth's parents separated when he was 9 or 10, and his father died in a car accident in 1966 when he was 11.
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Chris Noth was into vandalism and was smoking marijuana and driving at a very young age.
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Chris Noth said that he started taking LSD with friends at age 15, once walking into someone else's house in Newport Beach while high and jumping naked off their pier into the water.
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Chris Noth persuaded his mother to let him leave Storm King School to attend an experimental coed school called The Barlow School in Dutchess County, New York, instead.
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Chris Noth attended Marlboro College in Vermont, originally intending to be a writer or poet.
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Chris Noth received a classically oriented education and studied English literature and religion.
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Chris Noth first appeared on stage in the play She Stoops To Conquer, where he enjoyed the audience's unexpected laughter.
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Chris Noth was accepted into the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre to study with acting teacher Sanford Meisner.
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Chris Noth stayed in maid's rooms for little or no money in exchange for cleaning the house on a weekly basis.
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The school did not allow students to work in the theatre, and Chris Noth was expelled after a photo appeared of him in The New York Times acting in a 1979 Manhattan Theatre Club play about an IRA bombing victim.
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Chris Noth got his Actors' Equity membership while at the Circle Rep Lab.
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Chris Noth auditioned for Juilliard and Yale University and was accepted by both.
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Chris Noth chose the shorter three-year degree at Yale School of Drama, where he got a scholarship.
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Chris Noth acted in 25 or more plays while studying at Yale School of Drama, attending classes during the day and acting in plays at night.
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In 1985, Chris Noth acted in Keith Reddin's Rum and Coke at Yale Repertory Theatre, a play about the orchestration of the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
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Chris Noth was in Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters and William Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre at YSD.
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The play was performed for student groups in the spring season that year and Chris Noth felt the enthusiastic response of students from the inner cities to Hamlet's soliloquies made it one of his greatest experiences.
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Chris Noth appeared in George Bernard Shaw play Arms and the Man at the Roundabout Theatre in 1989 as Sergius Saranoff.
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In 1997, Chris Noth played an opera composer in the Romulus Linney play Patronage at Ensemble Studio Theatre's 20th Annual Festival of New One-Act Plays.
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Chris Noth performed in the 2002 staged reading of Linney's play Klonsky and Schwartz at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's annual Playwrights Conference and helped workshop the play at the 2003 Last Frontier Theatre Conference.
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In 2000, Chris Noth made his Broadway debut in a revival of Gore Vidal's 1960 play The Best Man at Virginia Theatre as the conniving Senator Joseph Cantwell.
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Chris Noth played Colonel Thayer in a 2005 staged reading of a revival of another Gore Vidal play, the 1961 drama On the March to the Sea, presented by Theater Previews at Duke at Duke University.
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Chris Noth received glowing reviews as petty criminal "Teach" in David Mamet's play American Buffalo at the 2005 Berkshire Theatre Festival.
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In 2008, Chris Noth portrayed Paul Zara in Beau Willimon's Off-Broadway debut play Farragut North staged by the Atlantic Theatre Company.
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In 2011, Chris Noth starred in a Broadway revival of the 1972 play That Championship Season, playing Phil Romano.
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In 2019 Chris Noth appeared with Isabelle Huppert in an Off-Broadway production of Florian Zeller's The Mother.
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Chris Noth played small parts in films, including Smithereens and Baby Boom before his first starring role in the low-budget 1988 film Peluru dan Wanita in Indonesia.
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Chris Noth appeared in a 1997 episode of the TV series Touched by an Angel.
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Chris Noth had a small role as Helen Hunt's husband in the film Cast Away starring Tom Hanks.
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Chris Noth was not a full-time regular on the series, leaving him time to do plays and indie films.
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In 2009, Chris Noth guest-starred as an authoritarian military man in the film My One and Only starring Renee Zellweger as woman searching for a spouse.
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Chris Noth portrayed a sleazy lawyer in the 2016 film White Girl.
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In 2017, Chris Noth played FBI agent Don Ackerman on the Discovery Channel's series Manhunt: Unabomber, about the hunt for the serial killer Ted Kaczynski and was the narrator for the "Sharks and the City: New York" episode of Discovery channel's Shark Week.
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Chris Noth portrayed FBI agent Frank Novak in Gone, a 12-episode procedural drama produced by NBC Universal.
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In 2021, Noth played the lead role of William Bishop in CBS reboot crime drama series The Equalizer, which was written by Andrew W Marlowe and Terri Edda Miller.
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Chris Noth is co-owner of The Cutting Room, a New York lounge and music venue that opened in late 1999, with Steve Walter.
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Chris Noth co-owned the New York nightclub The Plumm with Noel Ashman and other investors including David Wells and Damon Dash.
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Chris Noth had a relationship with model Beverly Johnson from 1990 to 1995.
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Johnson filed a restraining order against Chris Noth, accusing him of physical, verbal, and racial abuse.
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Chris Noth began a relationship with Tara Lynn Wilson, a Canadian model, actress, and former beauty queen after meeting her in 2001 or 2002.
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Chris Noth announced the birth of their second son Keats in February 2020.
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Chris Noth moved with his family to the Los Angeles suburb of Sherman Oaks.
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Chris Noth owns an apartment in Greenwich Village that he had since 1994 and another in a Lenox Hill co-op since 2017.
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Chris Noth denied the allegations, claiming the incidents were consensual and that he did not cross the line of "no means no".
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Chris Noth's publicist denied the incident happened and said Chris Noth did not know the woman.
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Chris Noth said he forcibly kissed her and grabbed and squeezed her breasts.