Chris Noth

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Chris Noth as Mr. Big on Sex and the City

Christopher Noth (born November 13, 1954, in Madison, Wisconsin) is an actor in American film, stage and television. He is best known for two long-running television roles—as Detective Mike Logan on Law & Order, and as "Mr. Big" on Sex and the City.

Noth (pronounced with a long "o", rhyming with "both") traveled throughout the United Kingdom, Yugoslavia, and Spain with his mother, former CBS News reporter Jeanne Parr.

After graduating college, Noth starred in the low-budget film Jakarta, and had small parts in films such as Smithereens and Baby Boom and on TV series such as Hill Street Blues and Another World.

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Noth, as Detective Mike Logan in the opening credits to Law & Order.

In 1988, he filmed a pilot for the dramatic legal/cop series Law & Order. In 1990, NBC began airing the show, which slowly gained recognition from critics and fans. The darkly handsome Noth's intense portrayal of the cocky, troubled Det. Mike Logan made him the most popular actor on the show, so viewers were stunned when producers fired him in 1995.

Frequent personality clashes between Noth and the writers were cited; both sides remained cool toward each other but warmed up long enough to film a Logan-dominated TV movie, Exiled: A Law & Order Movie (1998).

Noth scored a strong comeback in 1998 when he began the role of Carrie Bradshaw's enigmatic on-again/off-again boyfriend "Mr. Big" on HBO's cultural phenomenon, Sex and the City. Noth 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.

Noth co-owns a New York City nightclub called The Cutting Room. He often can be found on the NYC party scene, or in the local gossip rags. His long list of female friends includes actress Winona Ryder and supermodel Beverly Johnson, with whom he had an extremely volatile relationship that ended in litigation.

In 2005, Noth returned again to the role of Mike Logan for the 2005-2006 season of the Law & Order series spinoff, Criminal Intent.

Filmography

• The Perfect Man (2005) -- Uncle Ben
• Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) TV Series -- Det. Mike Logan (2005-)
• Tooth Fairy (2004) -- Dad
• Mr 3000 (2004) -- Schiembri
• Bad Apple (2004) (TV) -- Tozzi
• This Is Your Country (2003) (TV) -- Host
• Julius Caesar (2002) (mini)
• Searching for Paradise (2002) -- Michael De Santis
• The Glass House (2001/I) -- Uncle Jack
• The Judge (2001/I) (TV) -- Paul Madriani
• Double Whammy (2001) -- Chick Dimitri
• Cast Away (2000) -- Jerry Lovett
• The Acting Class (2000) -- Martin Ballsac
• Pigeonholed (1999) -- Devon's Father
• A Texas Funeral (1999) -- Clinton
• The Confession (1999) -- Camposo
• Getting to Know You (1999) -- Sonny
• Exiled: A Law & Order Movie (1998) (TV) -- Det. Mike Logan
• The Broken Giant (1998) -- Jack Frey
• Medusa's Child (1997) (TV) -- Tony DiStefano
• Cold Around the Heart (1997) -- T
• The Deli (1997) -- Sal
• Rough Riders (1997) (TV) -- Craig Wadsworth
• Born Free: A New Adventure (1996) (TV) -- Dr. David Thompson
• Abducted: A Father's Love (1996) (TV) -- Larry Coster
• Nothing Lasts Forever (1995) (mini) TV Series -- Dr. Ken Mallory
• Burnzy's Last Call (1995) -- Kevin
• Where Are My Children? (1994) (TV) -- Cliff Vernon
• In the Shadows, Someone's Watching (1993) (TV) (as himself) -- Dr. Ferris
• Naked in New York (1993) -- Jason Brett
• Law & Order (1990) TV Series -- Det. Mike Logan (1990-1995)
• Jakarta (1988) -- Falco
• Baby Boom (1987) -- Yuppie Husband
• I'll Take Manhattan (1987) (mini) TV Series (as himself)
• At Mother's Request (1987) (TV) -- Steve Klein
• Apology (1986) (TV) -- Roy Burnette
• Off Beat (1986) -- Ely Wareham Jr.
• Killer in the Mirror (1986) (TV) -- Johnny Mathews
• Another World (1964) TV Series -- Jimmy (1985)/Dean Whitney (1988)
• Smithereens (1982) -- Prostitute
• Waitress! (1981) -- Bit role

External links

• Chris Noth at IMDb
• The Cutting Room