Chris Elliott Movies and Career Information

For Australian Actor with same name see Christopher Elliott Christopher Nash "Chris" Elliott (born May 31, 1960) is an American actor, comedian and writer. Elliott was born in New York City, the son of Lee and Bob Elliott, who was a well-known comedian as part of the very successful comedy team Bob and Ray. He attended the National Theater Institute in 1979. Elliott often tends to play a smarmy character who thinks he is a "ladies' man" and is clueless to the fact that women cannot stand him. He exploited that in a series of TV advertisements touting snack foods, in which the women tell him "Get out of here!" (though he does not "get it"). Elliott became known in the early 1980s, when he was a writer and performer on Late Night With David Letterman, playing an assortment of recurring oddball characters. His characters on the show included: In 1986 Elliot starred in FDR: A One Man Show about the life and times of the president; however, he looks and sounds nothing like the man, portrays him as occasionally ambulatory, and he re-enacts events from Roosevelt's life that never happened, such as the Japanese bombing of the White House. In 1990, Elliott created and starred in his own