Chris Farley
Movie Actor — born 1964
Chris Farley was an American comedian and actor who made millions of people laugh with his lively comic acts.
Chris Farley was an American comedian and actor whose 14-year career — abruptly ended by his December 18, 1997 drug-overdose death at age 33 — produced multiple defining American TV-comedy roles, particularly his 1990–1995 cast-member tenure on NBC's Saturday Night Live. He was born Christopher Crosby Farley on February 15, 1964, in Madison, Wisconsin, into an Irish-Catholic-American working-class family. His father Thomas Farley was a Madison-area asphalt-paving-business operator, and his mother Mary Anne Crosby was a homemaker.
His education at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (B.A. in Communications and Theatre, 1986) launched his early-career path. His 1986–1988 Madison-Chicago-area improv-comedy career and his subsequent 1988–1990 Chicago Second City improv-comedy theater work launched his early-career American improv-comedy public profile.
His September 29, 1990 first-broadcast appearance as a cast member of NBC's Saturday Night Live launched his 1990–1995 American TV-comedy public profile. His five-year SNL run produced his sketch characters — particularly his Matt Foley motivational-speaker character (the chubby man living in a van down by the river), his Chippendales male-stripper-audition sketch with Patrick Swayze, his recurring Schmitts Gay Beer commercials, and his "The Chris Farley Show" celebrity-interviewer sketches.
His parallel feature-film career has produced multiple defining American comedy films — particularly Chris Farley's first lead-role feature film Tommy Boy (1995, opposite David Spade), Black Sheep (1996, opposite David Spade), Beverly Hills Ninja (1997), and his 1997 Almost Heroes (his final feature-film appearance). His later biographical narrative was shaped by his ongoing 1985–1997 substance-abuse-and-obesity issues. He died on December 18, 1997, at age 33, in his Chicago John Hancock Center apartment, of an opiate-and-cocaine speedball drug overdose. His Madison, Wisconsin funeral was attended by approximately 500 American comedians, family-members, and friends.
His name Chris is the English short form of Christopher (from the Greek Christophoros meaning "Christ-bearer"). Chris has been continuously among the most-popular American boys' names since 1880.
About the name Chris
Gender: Male · Origin: English
Abbreviation Of Christopher And Christian.