Christopher David Noth (/noʊθ/ NOHTH; born November 13, 1954) is an
American actor. He is perhaps best known for his television roles as
NYPD Detective Mike Logan on Law & Order (1990â€"95), Big on Sex and
the City (1998â€"2004), and Peter Florrick on The Good Wife
(2009â€"16). He reprised his role of Mike Logan on Law & Order:
Criminal Intent (2005â€"08), and reprised his role of Big in the
films, Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010). He was
nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor on
Television for Sex and the City in 1999 and for The Good Wife in
2010.Noth was born November 13, 1954, in Madison, Wisconsin, the
youngest of three boys to news reporter Jeanne Parr (1924â€"2016).
Parr was one of the first female correspondents for CBS News and host
of her own CBS talk show The Jeanne Parr Show. His father was Charles
James Noth (1922â€"1966), a marketing-company vice-president and
insurance agent who was a naval aviator in World War II and served as
Ensign on the USS Antietam during the Korean War. Charles came from a
wealthy family in Chicago and his mother had Irish ancestry that
traces back to Knockbride in Cavan County.Noth's family settled in
Stamford, Connecticut when he was five. Noth grew up in Connecticut
while his parents worked in New York City. His parents separated when
he was 9 or 10 and his father died in a car accident in 1966 when he
was 11. According to Noth, "losing my father left a crater in my life"
and he found father figures in many teachers and certain friends of
his mother's. While Parr was working as a CBS news reporter in New
York during the 1960s, Noth often got into trouble. He was into
vandalism and was smoking marijuana and driving at a very young age.
During a brief second marriage, the family moved to southern
California in 1969, returning to New York in the early 1970s. Noth
said that he started taking LSD with friends at age 15, once walking
into someone else's house in Newport Beach while high and jumping
naked off their pier into the water.
American actor. He is perhaps best known for his television roles as
NYPD Detective Mike Logan on Law & Order (1990â€"95), Big on Sex and
the City (1998â€"2004), and Peter Florrick on The Good Wife
(2009â€"16). He reprised his role of Mike Logan on Law & Order:
Criminal Intent (2005â€"08), and reprised his role of Big in the
films, Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010). He was
nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor on
Television for Sex and the City in 1999 and for The Good Wife in
2010.Noth was born November 13, 1954, in Madison, Wisconsin, the
youngest of three boys to news reporter Jeanne Parr (1924â€"2016).
Parr was one of the first female correspondents for CBS News and host
of her own CBS talk show The Jeanne Parr Show. His father was Charles
James Noth (1922â€"1966), a marketing-company vice-president and
insurance agent who was a naval aviator in World War II and served as
Ensign on the USS Antietam during the Korean War. Charles came from a
wealthy family in Chicago and his mother had Irish ancestry that
traces back to Knockbride in Cavan County.Noth's family settled in
Stamford, Connecticut when he was five. Noth grew up in Connecticut
while his parents worked in New York City. His parents separated when
he was 9 or 10 and his father died in a car accident in 1966 when he
was 11. According to Noth, "losing my father left a crater in my life"
and he found father figures in many teachers and certain friends of
his mother's. While Parr was working as a CBS news reporter in New
York during the 1960s, Noth often got into trouble. He was into
vandalism and was smoking marijuana and driving at a very young age.
During a brief second marriage, the family moved to southern
California in 1969, returning to New York in the early 1970s. Noth
said that he started taking LSD with friends at age 15, once walking
into someone else's house in Newport Beach while high and jumping
naked off their pier into the water.
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