Chris Parnell

Chris Parnell at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival

Thomas Christopher "Chris" Parnell (born February 5, 1967 in Memphis , Tennessee ) is an American actor and comedian .

Life

Parnell first attended the high school in German Town and then graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem the Bachelor of Fine Arts . He taught acting at his former school before moving to Los Angeles , where he was initially a member of the improvisational theater The Groundlings for a few years . In 1998, he joined the ensemble of the NBC - Comedy - TV show Saturday Night Live on, he will be including as Bing Crosby , Eminem , George W. Bush , John McCain and Tom Hanks occurred. In 2001 he was fired by producer Lorne Michaels due to budget constraints , but was hired again shortly afterwards. Due to further budget cuts, Parnell was fired in 2006 alongside Horatio Sanz and Finesse Mitchell . With eight seasons he is one of the longest-standing ensemble members of the show.

Between 2006 and 2013 he played the recurring guest role of Doctor Spaceman in 25 episodes in the sitcom 30 Rock , which was produced by SNL producer Lorne Michaels. From 2011 and 2014 he played Fred Shay in the comedy series Suburgatory .

Filmography (selection)

Movies

• 1996: A Promise is a Promise (Jingle All the Way)
• 2000: The Ladies Man
• 2003: Down with Love - To the devil with love! (Down with Love)
• 2004: Anchorman : The Legend of Ron Burgundy
• 2004: Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie
• 2007: My name is Fish (I'm Reed Fish)
• 2007: The Grand
• 2007: Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story)
• 2009: (K) a little pregnant (Labor Pains)
• 2009: Paper Man - Time to Grow Up (Paper Man)
• 2012: 21 Jump Street
• 2012: Almost married (The Five-Year Engagement)
• 2013: Nix wie weg - vom Planet Earth ( Escape from Planet Earth , voice)
• 2013: Anchorman : The Legend Continues
• 2017: Battle of the Sexes (Battle of the Sexes)
• 2018: Slice
• 2018: Hotel Transylvania 3 - A Monster Vacation ( Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation , voice)
• 2018: Goosebumps 2: Scary Halloween (Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween)

TV Shows

• 1996–1998: Susan (Suddenly Susan)
• 1998: Conrad Bloom
• 1998-2006: Saturday Night Live
• 2001: Friends (episode 8x05)
• 2006-2013: 30 rock
• 2007-2013: WordGirl
• 2008: Miss Guided
• since 2009: Archer (voice)
• 2010: Eureka - The Secret City ( Eureka , episode 4x10)
• 2011-2014: Suburgatory (45 episodes)
• since 2013: Rick and Morty (voice)
• 2014: Glee (episode 5x17)
• 2015: Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2 episodes)

Web links

• Chris Parnell in theInternet Movie Database(English)