Chris Noth Biography

Fast Facts

• The youngest of three boys whose widowed mother, CBS reporter Jeanne Parr, was often at work, he wasn't a stranger to mischief
• He was sent to boarding school by his mother after he took a neighbor's car for a joyride and damaged it when it rolled into another neighbor's house
• Lived in a cabin he built himself while he studied American transcendentalism at Vermont's nontraditional Marlboro College
• Performed in 25 plays while he was a student at the Yale School of Drama
• Co-owns the Cutting Room, a Manhattan nightclub, and Once Upon a Teacup, a chain of kid-friendly tea rooms in Canada
• Named his son Orion after his favorite constellation