Biography

Chris Wylde

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Chris was born and raised in New Jersey, the son of a preacher man and a preacher mama. When he was a kid in the 80's he lived in New York City at the St. Thomas Choir School and sang in the choir on the track "Let the River Run" with Carly Simon, which appeared in Mike Nichols's classic flick Working Girl (1988). Chris attended Northern Highlands Regional High School in Allendale, New Jersey, and was selected for the NJ Governor's School of the Arts for acting. Chris graduated from the American University in Washington, DC, with a bachelor's degree in Theater-Performance. In the 1990s, Chris hosted his own late-night talk show, which started on campus television at the American University and ended up on Comedy Central. His big-screen debut was in Clint Eastwood's Space Cowboys (2000), flipping and flying alongside Tommy Lee Jones and Jon Hamm, another actor making his first film foray. Since landing in Hollywood in the summer of 1998, Chris starred in thousands of episodes of TV, dozens of films, and hundreds of commercials. Chris Wylde hosts the longest running Clippers podcast ClipCast and started the show in 2012. Chris was married on October 10, 2009, to Shilpa Shah and a year later they had a happy, healthy and handsome son.
- IMDb mini biography by: Chris

To promote his AMC show FilmFakers (2004) he disguised himself as the "hip hop nanny" and auditioned for American Idol (2002) in San Francisco (which aired on February 2nd, 2005) using his birth name "Christopher Scott Noll". He rapped and Paula Abdul really liked him, but the other judges decided to not invite him to Hollywood. VH1 named it one of the Top 40 Pranks in TV History.
Graduated American University, Washington DC (1998) - Drama Major.
Starred in his own television show which aired on American Univ's TV network.
Graduated from Northern Highlands Regional High School in Allendale, NJ (1994).
Starring in his own TV series on Comedy Central (the AU show imported to cable) called Midnight with Chris Wylde Starring Chris Wylde. Begins airing August 5, 2001 on Sundays at 11:30.

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