Chris O'Donnell
Chris O'Donnell was born in Winnetka, Illinois, United States on June 26th, 1970 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 53, Chris O'Donnell biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Christopher Eugene O'Donnell (born June 26, 1970) is an American actor and former model.
He played Charlie Simms in Scent of a Woman, Chris Reece in School Ties, D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers, Jack Foley in the drama film Circle of Friends, Dick Grayson/Robin in Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, Jason Brown in Robert Altman's Cookie's Fortune, Peter Garrett in Vertical Limit, and Wardell Pomeroy in Kinsey.
O'Donnell currently stars as special Agent G. Callen on the CBS crime drama television series NCIS: Los Angeles, a spin-off of NCIS.
Early life
O'Donnell was born in the Chicago suburb of Winnetka, Illinois, the son of William Charles O'Donnell, Sr., a general manager of WBBM-AM, and Julie Ann Rohs von Brecht. He is the youngest of seven children, with four sisters and two brothers, and is of German and Irish descent. O'Donnell was raised in a Catholic family and attended Catholic schools. He graduated from Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois in 1988. O'Donnell then attended Boston College and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in marketing in 1992.
O'Donnell began modeling at the age of 13.
Personal life
O'Donnell married Caroline Fentress in April 1997 at St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, D.C. They have five children.
O'Donnell is a practicing Catholic.
According to Rolling Stone, O'Donnell is afraid of heights.
Career
O'Donnell began his career as a teenager, including commercials for Cap'n Crunch cereal and Fruit Roll-Ups snacks, as well as a McDonald's fast food commercial in which he played NBA great Michael Jordan. An early television series appearance on Jack and Mike in 1986 was the first television show starring an infant. He appeared in several films in the early 1990s, including Men Don't Leave (1990), starring Jessica Lange; Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), reuniting him with Kathy Bates, who appeared in Men Don't Leave; School Tomatoes (1992) with Al Pacino; and Most Promising Actor (which he won by Gene Hackman for Unforgiven); and Scent of a Woman (1992) with Al Pacino; O'Donnell In John Willis's Screen World, Vol. 12, he was also listed as one of the 12 Promising New Actors of 1992. 44.
He appeared in the film Blue Sky (1994), reuniteing him with Jessica Lange from Men Don't Leave (1995) with Drew Barrymore, who appeared in Circle of Friends (1995). In Batman Forever, O'Donnell went on to portray Dick Grayson/Robin, in which Barrymore appeared. According to reports, he was chosen from a field of contenders for the role of Robin, which included Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jude Law, Ewan McGregor, Corey Haim, Toby Stephens, and Scott Speedman. Casting directors narrowed their choices to O'Donnell and DiCaprio, with O'Donnell eventually winning the role. O'Donnell was considered by 20th Century Fox studios as one of the lead roles of Jack Dawson in Titanic (1997), but DiCaprio won the role.
In 1996's The Chamber, based on the John Grisham novel, O'Donnell appeared in a leading role. In 1997's Batman & Robin, he resurfaced his role as Robin. Despite the fact that it was a box-office hit, the film was critically panned, and O'Donnell denied that it didn't turn out well.
O'Donnell was not in another film for two years. Will Smith was one of the producers' picks for James Darrell Edwards III/Agent J in Men in Black (1997), but he decided against it because the role would be too similar to his appearance in Batman Forever. Cookie's Fortune (1999) and The Bachelor (1999) were moderately successful, while Vertical Limit (2000) was a box office hit.
Following a four-year absence, O'Donnell returned to Kinsey in 2004 with the widely lauded Kinsey. "An Old Flame With A New Wick," an episode of Two and a Half Men in 2004. In 2005, O'Donnell appeared in the Fox Network television series Head Cases. The show was the first episode of the fall 2005 season to be cancelled, and only two episodes were broadcast. Finn Dandridge, the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy's Finn Dandridge, was later cast as veterinarian Finn Dandridge.
O'Donnell appeared in TNT's miniseries The Company as CIA case officer Jack McAuliffe, a character who went from spoonfed Yale elitist to a jaded, post-Cold War cynic. He appeared in Kit Kittredge: An American Girl as the titular character's father, Jack Kittredge, in 2008, and as Jason Colvin in Max Payne as Jason Colvin.
Since 2009, O'Donnell has appeared in NCIS: Los Angeles, a spinoff of NCIS, as G. Callen, the NCIS Special Agent in charge of the Office of Special Projects Team based in Los Angeles. Callen is described by CBS as "a chameleon who turns himself into whomever he wants to penetrate the criminal underworld."
In 2010, O'Donnell appeared in the sequel to the 2001 film Cats & Dogs, The Revenge of Kitty Galore.