Christopher Meloni
Christopher Meloni was born in Washington, D.C., United States on April 2nd, 1961 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 63, Christopher Meloni 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 Peter Meloni (born April 2, 1961) is an American actor.
He is best known for his television appearances as NYPD Detective Elliot Stabler on the NBC legal drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for the first twelve seasons and as prisoner Chris Keller on the HBO prison drama Oz.
In June 2012, he returned to HBO as the vampire Roman on the main cast of True Blood for the fifth season.
Meloni appeared in and was a co-producer of the Syfy film Happiness. (2017–2019), based on writer Grant Morrison and artist Darick Robertson's comic book collection.
On June 4, 2019. The series was cancelled. Man of Steel, Wet Hot American Summer, Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, 12 Monkeys, Runaway Bride, 42, and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas are among his films.
Early life
Meloni was born in Washington, D.C., as the youngest of three children of Cecile's Cecile (née Chagnon), a homemaker, and Charles Robert Meloni (1927–2012), an endocrinologist. He has an older brother and sister. His maternal ancestry is from France, and he is a descendant of Matthias Farnsworth. His paternal ancestry is Italian; one great-grandfather was born in Sardinia and another was born in Velva.
Meloni played quarterback on the football team at St. Stephen's School (now St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School) in Alexandria, Virginia. He studied acting at the University of Colorado in Boulder and graduated with a degree in history in 1983. Meloni continued his studies with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre and the Center for the Performing Arts after graduation.
Personal life
On July 1, 1995, Meloni married Doris Sherman Meloni (née Williams), a production designer. They have two children through surrogacy, including Sophia Eva Pietra Meloni, b. Dante Amadeo Meloni, 2001, and his son Dante Amadeo Meloni (b. January 2, 2004). Mariska Hargitay, co-starred on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit with Meloni and remained close friends with him, is the godmother to his daughter's children.
Meloni has a Cubist-inspired poster of Christ's Crucifixion tattooed on his upper left arm, a butterfly tattoo on his left upper thigh, and a Chinese astrological chart of his family on his right lower leg. Meloni was inducted into his high school's Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007 as a member of the undefeated 1978 football team, for which he was quarterback.
Meloni bought the house in 2014, which was later used in the television series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.
Meloni is a distant cousin of Nancy Pelosi, according to an episode of PBS' Finding Your Roots.
Career
Meloni worked as a construction worker prior to getting his acting break. He has also worked as a bouncer, bartender, and personal trainer.
Meloni worked his way up the acting ladder with commercials, short-lived TV series, and bit parts in a number of films.
His first noticeable role was the hotheaded son of a Mafia don in the 1996 thriller Bound. He appeared as Robbie Sinclair's friend Spike in Dinosaurs in the early 1990s. He played criminal Jimmy Liery in eight episodes of NYPD Blue during 1996-1997 and the fiancé of Julia Roberts's character in the 1999 romantic comedy Runaway Bride.
From 1998 to 2003, Meloni portrayed the bisexual criminal Chris Keller on the HBO series Oz.
Law & Order producer Dick Wolf signed Meloni to play Elliot Stabler on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 1999. Meloni appeared on both Oz and Law & Order: SVU simultaneously until Oz went off the air in 2003. Meloni was nominated for the 2006 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his role as Elliot Stabler.
In May 2011, Meloni announced that he had been unable to agree on a contract and would not be returning for season 13 of SVU. His character was written out as having put in his retirement papers. After nearly a decade, Meloni announced in March 2020 that he would be reprising his role of Stabler in the Law & Order franchise on a new spin-off show titled Law & Order: Organized Crime. Meloni also appeared in a cross-over event during season 22 of SVU.
Meloni returned to his comedic roots as the character Gene in Wet Hot American Summer in 2001, the puppet-loving pediatrician Dr. Norris in a 2003 episode of Scrubs, and the character of "Freakshow" (albeit in heavy make-up) in the 2004 comedy Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. He made a cameo in its sequel, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay, as "The Grand Wizard". In 2005, he appeared on Episode 107 of MTV2's adult puppet show Wonder Showzen in a series of parody public service announcements warning of the threat of cooties. He also had an uncredited role as a gay hotel desk clerk in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
In July 2009, Meloni portrayed DC Comics character Hal Jordan/Green Lantern in the DC Universe Animated Original Movie Green Lantern: First Flight. He briefly appeared in the first episode of the Comedy Central series Michael & Michael Have Issues, portraying himself for a fake movie starring Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter.
In 2012, Meloni joined the cast of True Blood during the series' fifth season as Roman, a "powerful, 500-year-old vampire who sits at the head of the table of the Vampire Authority."
Meloni played Colonel Hardy, a supporting role, in the Superman reboot film Man of Steel, which was released in 2013. That year, he also played Brooklyn Dodgers manager Leo Durocher in the historical baseball feature 42. Meloni then starred in the 2014 comedy They Came Together. He also stars as John Taylor in the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops III. In 2016, Meloni shot the heist movie Marauders The film would make it to Netflix's U.S. platform's top two in December of 2020.
Meloni starred in and executive produced the Syfy series Happy!, based on the comic book series created by writer Grant Morrison and artist Darick Robertson, which premiered in 2017. The series was canceled on June 4, 2019.
In 2018, Meloni guest starred in two episodes of the FX drama series Pose, opposite Dominique Jackson. He then appeared on the third season of The Handmaid's Tale as Commander Winslow in 2019.