Chris Messina

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Biography

As a young actor working in New York City, Chris Messina grew accustomed to playing a variety of characters, and showed a particular penchant for playing dangerous, untrustworthy sorts, despite a long run of good guy roles once he arrived in Hollywood. Messina first came to national attention as Ted Fairwell, the upstanding Republican boyfriend of Lauren Ambrose's Claire on HBO's "Six Feet Under" (2001-05), and would reprise the type in a …
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Job Title

Actor, Producer

Born

August 11, 1974

LATEST CREDITS

Ira & Abby

Ira Black

Devil

Detective Bowden

Fairhaven

Dave

28 Hotel Rooms

Actor

The Mindy Project

Danny

Along the Highways

Franklin

The Giant Mechanical Man

Tim

Monogamy

Theo

The Trouble With Bliss

N J

Turn It Up

Baz

Ruby Sparks

Harry

Julie & Julia

Eric Powell

Greenberg

Phillip Greenberg

An Invisible Sign

Ben Smith

Towelhead

Barry

Bittersweet Place

Seymour

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

Subject #19

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Doug

Like Crazy

Mike Appletree

Celeste and Jesse Forever

Paul

Made of Honor

Dennis

Argo

Malinov

Away We Go

Tom

Humboldt County

Max

Big Apple

Ricky