Chris was born in Shelby, North Carolina and started performing in theatre in the early 1980s. Since then he has lived in several parts of the country and performed in many TV shows, movies, commercials, radio and plays as well as numerous print modeling jobs. He is a former college football/track athlete at North Carolina State Univ. He has spent several years working as a firefighter and emergency medical technician. He has a vast amount of talent in the area of video production and computer graphics and actually spent many years working for several television studios such as ABC, UPN, and FOX. Chris loves martial arts and still actively fights in competitions. He also competes in power lifting events. Chris was also a contestant on NBC's "Fear Factor". He was the morning show comedian on Radio's 98.7 Simon's Wicker In The Morning Show. Having lived in both urban and rural America makes Chris an extremely versatile performer with a lot of range and diversity.