Christopher David Chris Noth was born on 13th November 1954, in Madison, Wisconsin USA, of German and Irish descent, and is a veteran TV and movie star perhaps best known for his roles in the famous TV legal drama series “Law and Order”, and “Sex and the City”.
So just how rich is Chris Noth? Sources estimate that Chris has a net worth of over $15.5 million, accumulated during his career in the entertainment industry stretching back over 35 years .
Chris Noth Net Worth $15.5 Million
Chris lost his father, Charles James Noth, an attorney, when he was 12, and lived in different parts of the UK, Spain and Czechoslovakia with his two older brothers and his CBS news reporter mother Jeanne Parr. He eventually graduated with a Master of Fine Arts degree in drama from the Yale School of Drama, where he was coached by Stanford Meisner, and where he performed in about 25 plays. Noth then worked with a number of theatre companies including the Manhattan Theatre Club before making his debut on television in 1982. TV shows and small roles in movies like “Off Beat” (1986) and “Baby Boom” (1987). followed, before Noth rose to prominence playing Det. Mike Logan in “Law and Order” for five seasons from 1990-95. Even so, all these roles contributed to Chris’ growing net worth
Chris appeared in minor roles in several TV and big screen movies before he was cast as Mr. Big in “Sex and the City” in 1998, which ran for several seasons and over 40 episodes. He also worked with Tom Hanks and Helen Hunt in “Cast Away” (2000) and in the 2001 thriller “The Glass House”. Noth also starred in a Broadway revival of “The Best Man” in 2000. In the year 2008, Noth left the series “Law and Order”, to reprise his role of Mr. Big in the “Sex and the City” films in 2008 and 2010, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination. Chris’ net worth grew consistently during this period.
Also in 2000 Chris became the spokesperson for the “Biotherm” line of male skin–care products in America. Noth played Phil Romano from the 1972 version of the Broadway play “That Championship Season” in the year 2011. This role was originated by his “Law and Order” colleague Paul Sorvino, and became a big hit.
Noth currently appears in the CBS series “The Good Wife”, since its airing in 2009, and since 2013, he has appeared regularly in the theatre festival of Napa Valley, California by the name of “Plaza Del Sol” along with the actor Dennis Haysbert.
Noth co-owns a music venue, “The Cutting Room” in NYC with former Berklee student, Steve Walter. Opened in 1999 employing Tara Lynn Wilson, Noth fell in love with Wilson and married her in 2012. The two have a son named Orion Christopher Noth, who was born in 2008.
Noth co-owned a semi-private club “The Plumm” with Noel Ashman, Damon Dash, Joey McIntyre, David Wells, Ann Dexter-Jones and Bo Dietl. Noth and Wilson also ran a tea-party themed restaurant called “Once upon a Tea Cup”. The franchise had branches in Windsor and London, Ontario.
Noth has also performed as a singer and now supports Da Marino of New York. With so many talents a successful continuation of Chris’ career seems assured.
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Series, Miniseries, or Motion Picture Made for Television, People's Choice Award for Favorite Cast, TV Land Coolest Crime Fighting Team Award, Satellite Award for...
Movies
“Off Beat” (1986), “Baby Boom” (1987), “Law and Order” (1990-1995), “Sex and the City” (1998), “Cast Away” (2000),“The Glass House” (2001)
TV Shows
The Good Wife, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order, Sex and the City
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I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.
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I have been walking these [New York] streets and taking subways all of my adult life, and before I was just another face in the crowd. It's pretty annoying to be suddenly looked at as some exotic bird in the zoo.
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[on why he left Law & Order (1990)]: "'Law and Order' is completely story-driven and completely characterless, really. If you do that format for five years and you're an actor, you're bound to get bored. It wears on you. And it was really wearing on me. But you need a job, and I felt awfully blessed to be in New York City and to be doing a show that was considered intelligent in the world of TV. But hey, five years is enough time."
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I don't like NYPD Blue (1993) because it tries to pretend it's a New York show. You know it's shot in a Hollywood back-lot. It's so L.A., so un-New York....They all try to talk New York. They all sound stupid. Law & Order (1990) is one hundred times more authentic.
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Currently starring in "Farragut North" at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. [July 2009]
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In Israel starting a new advertising campaign for a famous hand- cream company. Will stay in Israel for a few weeks. [July 2004]
Attended Vermont's Marlboro College before going to the Yale School of Drama.
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Grew up in Stamford, Connecticut. His father died when he was young. Got into delinquent-styled trouble while he was young.
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His father, Charles J. Noth (died March 1966), grew up in Stamford, Connecticut, where he lived with his wife and children in 1962, and was an insurance salesman.
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He and his longtime girlfriend, Tara Wilson, welcomed their son, Orion Christopher, on January 18, 2008 in Los Angeles, weighing seven pounds, ten ounces.
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Met his longtime girlfriend, Tara Wilson, while she was working at The Cutting Room, the New York City lounge and music club that he co-owns.
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Co-owns The Cutting Room, a lounge and music club in New York City's Flatiron District, with Steve Walter, a Berklee College of Music alumnus. Since opening in 1999, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sheryl Crow, and Norah Jones are among the many people who have performed there.
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He won the World Theater Award 2001- Best Broadway Debut for "Best Man".
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Was in a longterm relationship with supermodel/actress Beverly Johnson.
Ranked #8 on Tropopkin's Top 25 Most Intriguing People [Issue #100]
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Lives with actress Tara Wilson, whom he met while she was working at his bar, "The Cutting Room". [2002]
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Was the last original cast member of Law & Order (1990) to leave the series. Although Steven Hill (District Attorney Adam Schiff) is often touted as an original cast member, he did not appear in the series until after its first episode.
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His character Mike Logan on Law & Order (1990) was Irish-American. In real life, Chris's father was of German and Irish descent, while Chris's mother's ancestry is Irish, German, and English. His father's name, "Noth", originates from the Strasbourg region of eastern France on the border of Germany--now called Alsace-Lorraine, where the name is properly pronounced "note." In his case, however, it rhymes with "both".
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Has been confirmed that he will return as detective Mike Logan in a guest appearance on Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) in January, 2005. He last appeared as Mike Logan in the TV movie, Exiled (1998) in 1998.
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He toured Vietnam with singer Nanci Griffith to support the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation's campaign against land mines.
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Studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in Manhattan before graduating from the Yale School of Drama.
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Became more well-known as Sarah Jessica Parker's on-again, off-again romancer Mr. Big in the TV cable hit Sex and the City (1998), after becoming a heart-throb playing Detective Mike Logan in Law & Order (1990).
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Mother, Jeanne Parr, was a television news reporter (European correspondent) for CBS.
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Proud owner of a Manhattan bar called "The Cutting Room." So named after the cutting-room floor, where a lot of actors' best performances often end up.
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He spent three years as an undergraduate at Marlboro College in southern Vermont.