Christian Seaborn

Christian's first brush with the entertainment business came in his native Portland, Oregon when he was eight years old. Having fallen in love with Louis Armstrong's version of Hello, Dolly, when the famed jazz artist Armstrong came to perform in Portland in the summer of 1965 Christian's mother arranged for him to meet his boyhood idol after the show. This resulted in an impromptu rendition of him singing Hello, Dolly with Satchmo (Mr. Armstrong's nickname). On the advice of another famous entertainer, Bing Crosby (whom had known Christian's paternal grandparents in Tacoma, Washington decades earlier), Christian then did every theater opportunity he could lay his hands on through grade school, junior high, high school and college. (Crosby's advice had been to get a resume together before coming to Hollywood.) By the time Christian landed in Hollywood in June of 1976 he was armed with a resume of some 40 live theater productions in the states of Oregon, Washington and Massachusetts. (He had attended the 1973 session of the esteemed Philips Andover private school in Andover, Massachusetts at the age of 16.) Working for his first Hollywood agent, one of the first casting directors he met was Lori Openden who was then casting the sitcom, Rhoda. Casting him in an episode of Rhoda (which aired in January of 1977), Christian made his debut as a character actor on national television. This was followed with more work on the sitcoms Alice, Angie, A New Kind Of Family and WKRP In Cincinnati (in which he played the lawyer for the fictional radio station). He then moved behind the camera, working as a producer, writer, editor and graphics designer for production companies in the states of Oregon and Nevada. In 2002 he reentered the television acting arena as the character spokesperson for a series of international commercials for Schwans Europe's product Chicago Town Pizza. For a few years in the 1980s he side-stepped the entertainment arena totally to pursue an ambition from his youth of working with race horses; working on all the major race tracks on the west coast of the United States from 1986 to 1990. His other interests have included coaching youth soccer, which he did for 16 years, and playing the piano.