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THE BULLETIN • FEBRUARY 25 - MARCH 3, 2021
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CHRIS
NOTH
Christopher David Noth was
born on Nov. 13, 1954, in
Madison, Wis., but was raised in
Connecticut. His mother, Jeanne
Parr, was one of CBS News’ first
female reporters and a talk-show
host; his father was a World War
II pilot and Korean War officer
who later became a market-
ing-company executive.
After his parents’ separation
and his father’s car-accident
death, the teenage Noth got into
self-admitted trouble that encom-
passed vandalism and drug use.
Though his mother was going to
send him to an all-boys board-
ing school, he convinced her to
let him attend the coed Barlow
school instead. There, he devel-
oped a love for the arts, and he
joined a repertory theater com-
pany while attending Marlboro
College later.
Expelled from a school where
the celebrated Sanford Meisner
taught – since students weren’t
allowed to do professional act-
ing while there, and Noth was
discovered doing so – Noth also
studied with the renowned Stella
Adler. Eventually accepted into
both the Juilliard and Yale drama
programs, Noth went with the lat-
ter and got a scholarship there.
Performing in many plays at
Yale ultimately landed Noth an
agent. He found theater jobs
scarce on the East Coast, but
stage employment suddenly
picked up for him, and he was
in such classics as “Hamlet” and
“Arms and the Man.”
Following appearances on “Hill
Street Blues,” Noth filmed the
pilot for “Law & Order,” and that
series became his ticket to star-
dom. After being fired, reportedly
over conflicts with executive pro-
ducer Dick Wolf, he reprised the
role of Detective Mike Logan in
“Exiled: A Law & Order Movie”
and again on the spinoff “Law &
Order: Criminal Intent,” which he
joined as a regular.
Noth played “Mr. Big,” the true
love of Carrie Bradshaw, on the
series “Sex and the City” and in
the two feature films it inspired.
Later, he returned to series work
in “The Good Wife” as the
disgraced politician husband of
title character. Married with two
children, Noth is back on weekly
TV now opposite Queen Latifah
in CBS’ new reboot of “The
Equalizer.”
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