Chris Messina Biography
Chris Messina is an American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer most known for his role as in the television series The Mindy Project, for which he received two Critics’ Choice Television Award nominations for most Actor in A Comedy Series.
Age
He is 49 years old as of 11 August 2023. He was born in 1974 in Northport, New York, United States. His real name is Christopher Messina.
Chris Messina Family – Education
Messina grew up on Long Island in Northport, New York, and went to high school to study theater. He enrolled at Marymount Manhattan College, but dropped out after one semester.
Chris Messina Wife – Kids
He was married to actress Rosemarie DeWitt for 12 years before divorcing in 2006. Messina and his second wife, Jennifer Todd, have two kids named Milo and Giovanni, who were born in 2008 and 2009.
Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $4 million.
Height
He stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches(1.70 m).
Based on a True Story
In the American comic thriller television series Based on a True Story, he played Nathan Bartlett, Ava’s husband and a tennis teacher at the Beverly Club who was formerly a prominent tennis player before sustaining a career-ending knee injury.
Ava and Nathan Bartlett, a Los Angeles couple, hire plumber Matt Pierce to install a new toilet. They befriend Matt and have a flirtatious experience with bartender Chloe Lake, who is slain. Ava, a true crime enthusiast, feels Matt is the Westside Ripper. Ava suggests that they start a podcast to interview Matt, but Matt refuses it. At the Beverly Club, LAPD officers ask Nathan about his relationship with Chloe and Matt.
Nathan insists on handing up Matt to the authorities, but Matt surprises Ava at their home. They visit CrimeCon, a true-crime event, to promote their podcast. At the convention, Matt doubts Dahlia Stone’s account of how she survived the Westside Ripper and confronts her on the rooftop balcony. Nathan and Ava stop by booths and run into Ruby and Carlos, but Dahlia falls to her death.
The Mindy Project
He played Dr. Daniel Alan “Danny” Castellano (seasons 1-4; guest season 5; recurring season 6), another OB/GYN (previously at Shulman & Associates, now at Freedom Tower Women’s Health) and Mindy’s main antagonist and love interest.
The series follows Mindy Lahiri, an obstetrician/gynecologist, as she struggles to balance her personal and professional lives while working in a tiny medical practice in New York City with colorful coworkers. Kaling’s persona was inspired by her own mother, an OB/GYN.
With the assistance of her coworkers, Mindy explores life: Tamra Webb, a blunt nurse; Beverley Janoszewski, the libidinous older office receptionist; Jeremy Reed, an English physician who manages the practice; Peter Prentice, another physician who was a fraternity jock while attending Dartmouth; and her best friend and love interest, Danny Castellano, whose religious sensibilities occasionally cause some tension.
Sharp Objects
He appeared as Detective Richard Willis, a detective from Kansas City who arrives in Wind Gap to assist with the ongoing murder investigations in the 2018 American psychological thriller television miniseries Sharp Objects. After years of self-harm, crime reporter Camille Preaker, who suffers from alcoholism, was recently released from a mental health facility and goes back to her hometown of Wind Gap, Missouri, to look into the killings of two young girls. Camille is forced to face her inner problems when she returns to her childhood home and finds herself scrutinized by her small-town socialite mother, Adora.
Career
He concentrated on acting secretly with instructors around Manhattan, and began his vocation as an off-Broadway entertainer. He has showed up in episodes of the TV series Regulation and Request, Third Watch, and Medium. He played a common part in the fifth and last time of the HBO show series Six Feet Under as Ted Fairwell. His film credits incorporate Rounders, The Attack, You Have Mail, and Towelhead.
He featured in a HBO pilot Life structures of Trust, coordinated by J. J. Abrams. Simon Puerile additionally featured, yet the pilot was not gotten to series. In October 2007, Everyday Assortment named him as one of ten entertainers to watch. He featured in Demon, under the bearing of John Erick Dowdle and Drew Dowdle, for maker M. Night Shyamalan and General Pictures. In April 2010, Monogamy, coordinated by Dana Adam Shapiro and featuring Messina and Rashida Jones, debuted at the Tribeca Film Celebration, where the film won the jury prize for Best New York Account.
Messina joined the cast of Harms for its fourth and fifth seasons. He played a common person on HBO’s The Newsroom. Messina was a series normal on the Fox/Hulu sitcom The Mindy Undertaking, playing Dr. Danny Castellano, until his personality was in the end eliminated in seasons 4 and 5. He made his return in three episodes, including the season and series finale, in season 6.
In 2014, Messina assumed the part of a conning mate in the music video for Sam Smith’s “I’m Not alone”. That very year, he coordinated the autonomous show, Alex of Venice, featuring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Wear Johnson and Matthew Del Negro. He co-featured in Ben Affleck’s wrongdoing show Live Around evening time, which was delivered in December 2016. In 2018, Messina featured in a main job close by Amy Adams in the HBO series Sharp Items.
In 2020, Chris Messina featured as crowd executioner Victor Zsasz in Flying predators. At the point when gotten some information about playing a curved person, Messina answered, “I’ve played such a large number of decent folks in my profession. So it resembled super loads of enjoyable to set free.” In 2021, Messina depicted lawyer Senior member Ericson in the dark parody spine chiller I Care very much.
Movies
♦ 2023 – Air
♦ 2023 – The Boogeyman
♦ 2023 – I.S.S.
♦ 2022 – Call Jane
♦ 2022 – The Aviary
♦ 2022 – Dreamin’ Wild
♦ 2020 – Birds of Prey
♦ 2020 – She Dies Tomorrow
♦ 2020 – Love Is Love Is Love
♦ 2020 – I Care A Lot
♦ 2020 – The Secrets We Keep
♦ 2019 – The True Adventures of Wolfboy
♦ 2017 – Blame
♦ 2016 – Ordinary World
♦ 2016 – Live by Night
♦ 2016 – The Sweet Life
♦ 2015 – Digging for Fire
TV Shows
♦ 2023 – Based on a True Story
♦ 2022 – Gaslit
♦ 2020 – The Sinner
♦ 2019 – Robot Chicken
♦ 2018 – Sharp Objects
♦ 2012–2014 – The Newsroom
♦ 2012–2017 – The Mindy Project
♦ 2011–2012 – Damages
♦ 2007 – Medium
♦ 2005 – Six Feet Under
♦ 2003 – Law & Order
♦ 2001 – Big Apple
♦ 2000 – Third Watch
♦ 1996 – Law & Order
♦ 1995 – Law & Order