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Chris Noth
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- #001
Chris Noth played the same character, Detective Mike Logan, in three different series: Law & Order (1990), Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) and Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001).
- #002
He traveled through Vietnam with singer Nanci Griffith in support of the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation's campaign against land mines.
- #003
He met his longtime girlfriend Tara Wilson while she was working at The Cut Room, the New York City lounge and music club he co-owns.
- #004
He grew up in Stamford, Connecticut. His father died when he was young. As a youth he got into delinquent-style trouble.
- #005
Before graduating from the Yale School of Drama, he studied with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse in Manhattan.
- #006
The character Mike Logan on Law & Order (1990) was Irish American. In real life, Chris's father was of German and Irish descent, while Chris's mother's ancestry is Irish, German and English. His father's surname "Noth" comes from the Strasbourg region in eastern France, near the German border, an area known as Alsace-Lorraine, where the name is properly pronounced "note." In his case, however, it rhymes with "both."
- #007
His mother, Jeanne Parr, was a CBS television news correspondent (European correspondent).
- #008
Together with Berklee College of Music graduate Steve Walter, he co-owns The Cut Room, a lounge and music club in New York City's Flatiron District. Since it opened in 1999, Gwyneth Paltrow, Sheryl Crow and Norah Jones are among the many who have performed there.
- #009
Before attending the Yale School of Drama, he went to Marlboro College in Vermont.
- #010
In January 2005 it was confirmed that he would return as Detective Mike Logan in a guest role on Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001). He had last appeared as Mike Logan in the 1998 TV movie Exiled (1998).
- #011
He did three years of undergraduate study at Marlboro College in southern Vermont.
- #012
His brother appeared several times as a court clerk on Law & Order (1990). He also has a sister. Both are married.
- #013
He is currently appearing in "Farragut North" at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.
- #014
He won the 2001 World Theatre Award (Best Broadway Debut) for "Best Man."
- #015
He was a guest at Sarah Jessica Parker's 40th birthday party.
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