Chris Wood Biography

 

Chris Wood Biography

Overview :-

• Born : April 14, 1988 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
• Birth name : Christopher Charles Wood
• Height : 6′ (1.83 m)

Mini Bio :-

Ohio's Dublin is where Chris Wood was born. All of Wood's free time as a child was spent writing plays that he performed alongside his sister and their friends. At age eleven, he acquired his first super-8 camera and started writing and directing short films that he submitted to nearby film festivals. This contained the book PROBLEM: SOLUTION, which told the tale of a youngster who accidentally dropped his contact lens and later realised he was out of contact solution. Critics agreed, calling it "pretty good."

His theatrical teacher at Dublin Jerome High School, where Wood went to public school, inspired him to pursue a career in performing and writing. A drama he composed about a talking dead body that is found on a building's rooftop was performed by his school's theatre programme during his final year. His mother wasn't a fan.

 

Wood earned a B.F.A. in Music Theatre from Elon University in North Carolina. He first visited Los Angeles a few weeks before graduation when he was cast in the main role of Spring Awakening's national tour. Wood received his first representation as a result of the show, and soon after the tour was through, he was hired for an Amazon Studios comedy pilot. following the pilot's absence.

In the limited event series Containment (2016), he played an Atlanta-based cop stuck in the quarantine zone of a hazardous virus epidemic, which was his first leading part in a series. After that, Wood appeared in a two-season arc of the comic book television series Supergirl (2015) as the superhero "Mon-el." He then made a short film that he wrote and directed to get back to his filmmaking origins, and he is currently working on his first movie.

Wood's father work of banking, and his mother is a financial professional. He has a sister who dances and teaches dance. By encouraging individuals to talk openly about their minds, Wood's nonprofit initiative IDONTMIND, which promotes mental health awareness, hopes to lessen the stigma associated with mental illness.

 

Family :-

• Spouse : Melissa Benoist(September 3, 2019 - present) (1 child)
• Children : Huxley Robert Wood
• Relatives : Libby Wood(Sibling)
• Atticus Wood(Sibling)
• Emmett Wood(Sibling)

 

Trivia :-

Became engaged to Melissa Benoist on 11 February 2019.

Chris has an older sister (Libby) and two younger brothers (Atticus and Emmett).

Regarding mental illness We need to discuss it. We continue to stigmatise it if we don't talk about it.

Kai was a significant step forward for me because it was the longest arc I had ever completed for a show.

 

Quotes :-

[on mental illness] We have to talk about it. If we do not talk about it we continue to stigmatize.

Kai was my longest arc that I had done on a show, so it was a big step forward to me.

Sometimes you hate villains, but you love that you hate them, and it finds this happy medium where you enjoy the process of loathing them so much that you want them to be there. It's such a weird, twisted thing that our minds do.