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Name: Chris Messina
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Date of Birth:
August 11, 1974
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Place of Birth:
Not available
Mini-bio:
Chris Messina will next be seen onscreen opposite Amy Adams in Nora Ephron’s
Julie & Julia. His most recent film was Woody Allen’s
Vicky Cristina Barcelona, with Rebecca Hall and Academy
...( read more) Award winner Penélope Cruz.
The native New Yorker was directed by his fellow Away We Go actor John
Krasinski in the independent feature Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. Mr. Messina’s other films include Robert Cary’s award-winning Ira and Abby, as one half of the titular duo, opposite screenwriter Jennifer Westfeldt; Paul Weiland’s
Made of Honor; Darren Grodsky and Danny Jacobs’ Humboldt County; J.J. Abrams’ soon-to-air telefilm Anatomy of Hope; and Alan Ball’s Towelhead.
Mr. Messina first worked with the latter writer/director in a guest-starring arc on the acclaimed series "Six Feet Under." The actor’s other guest appearances on TV shows include ones on "Medium" and "Law & Order."
Among his many stage appearances are ones in Caryl Churchill’s Far Away, opposite Frances McDormand for director Stephen Daldry at the New York Theatre Workshop; Oscar Wilde’s Salome opposite Al Pacino and Marisa Tomei, in Estelle Parsons’ Broadway production; Adam Rapp’s Faster; This Thing of Darkness, for Craig Lucas at the Atlantic Theatre Company, Melanie Marnich’s Blur, at Manhattan Theatre Club; Jessica Goldberg’s Good Thing directed by Jo Bonney, at The New Group; and Frank Pugliese’s Late Night, Early Morning, which premiered at the 2004 Tribeca Theatre Festival and won the Jury Award for Best Theater at the 2005 Aspen Comedy Festival.