Christopher J. Buchko
- Actor
Christopher James Buchko was born in Wyandotte, Michigan on December 6th, 1983. His mother was a single parent still living at home, so he spent most of his early years being raised by his grandparents. He credits his time with his grandmother as sparking both his love of the creative arts and his interest in true crime and law enforcement. He bought his first electric guitar at twelve and started meeting other music-minded classmates, eventually singing and playing guitar for a three-piece punk band with other kids from his Junior High School. After fronting a series of bands throughout his early teens, Christopher founded a series of successful creative projects and musical endeavors that would dominate most of his life between ages 13 and 30.
His family relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1991. While struggling as a musician in his teens, he worked odd jobs around town as an Elvis impersonator, a strip-club bouncer, a caretaker at an assisted living facility, and a haunted house actor. After blindly walking into a talent agent in 2002, he was cast for a single scene opposite Brendan Fraser in the Warner Brothers production Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003). He married at age 19 to Deborah - a woman 13 years his senior, and the pair moved to Portland, Oregon in 2003.
Christopher signed with Pentagram Records in 2004 and released three albums between 2004 and 2005. He then launched his own underground record label - Gutter.Press Records - and released four more albums between 2005 and 2007. He retired as a professional musician after the sudden and unexpected death of his bass player and best friend in 2006. He then divorced his first wife in 2009 and stared working more as an actor. He would get engaged again in 2010 and then spent a year homeless in 2011. He would get engaged and married again in 2012, and then relocated again to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2014. Christopher and his second wife, Ashley, would welcome their first daughter Ripley Renée in May of 2015, and then divorce before the end of 2016.
He married a third time - to Maria - in 2017, and the pair welcomed their first daughter, Scarlett Rose in 2017, and their first son, Tristan Richard in 2019. The family lives in a private suburb of Pittsburgh, where Christopher works as a novelist, an occasional actor, and began work on his first solo album due out in 2020.
His family relocated to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1991. While struggling as a musician in his teens, he worked odd jobs around town as an Elvis impersonator, a strip-club bouncer, a caretaker at an assisted living facility, and a haunted house actor. After blindly walking into a talent agent in 2002, he was cast for a single scene opposite Brendan Fraser in the Warner Brothers production Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003). He married at age 19 to Deborah - a woman 13 years his senior, and the pair moved to Portland, Oregon in 2003.
Christopher signed with Pentagram Records in 2004 and released three albums between 2004 and 2005. He then launched his own underground record label - Gutter.Press Records - and released four more albums between 2005 and 2007. He retired as a professional musician after the sudden and unexpected death of his bass player and best friend in 2006. He then divorced his first wife in 2009 and stared working more as an actor. He would get engaged again in 2010 and then spent a year homeless in 2011. He would get engaged and married again in 2012, and then relocated again to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2014. Christopher and his second wife, Ashley, would welcome their first daughter Ripley Renée in May of 2015, and then divorce before the end of 2016.
He married a third time - to Maria - in 2017, and the pair welcomed their first daughter, Scarlett Rose in 2017, and their first son, Tristan Richard in 2019. The family lives in a private suburb of Pittsburgh, where Christopher works as a novelist, an occasional actor, and began work on his first solo album due out in 2020.
