Chris Norden

From his acting debut in 1969 at age 7, Chris went professional in 1976 in the role of "Charlie" in the internationally-broadcast PBS-produced series, "Parent Effectiveness." Since then, he has worked in San Diego, Los Angeles, Seattle, Santa Fe and Albuquerque, and in North and South Carolina, appearing in 47 films, pilots, TV commercials and training films; 33 plays and musicals; and as a print model for ad campaigns appearing in national magazines. A character voiceover artist, Chris created the original voices for over a hundred characters back in the 1980s for San Diego-based International Educational Recordings (a children's record company). He was heard for years as the voices of "Paul, the MUSC Amoco Polar Bear," "Prioleau, the Lowcountry's Richest Golfer" and the ADDY award-winning "Bernice the Administrative Assistant" in spots for the Kirkman Broadcasting family of stations in Charleston, South Carolina, a company for whom he voiced well over a hundred spots. From February 2011 through October 2012, Chris returned to New Mexico, working once again there as a SAG-AFTRA actor in television and film projects including NBC's 1866-era Civil War pilot, "Reconstruction," directed by Peter Horton; the A&E series "Longmire" with Lou Diamond Phillips; "As Cool As I Am" with Claire Danes and Alanis Morissette; HBO Films' "Game Change" with Ed Harris, Julianne Moore and Woody Harrelson; the Joss Whedon/Marvel Studios epic, "The Avengers," starring Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson and Mark Ruffalo; USA Network's "In Plain Sight;" "Blaze You Out" with the late Elizabeth Peña; "We're the Millers" with Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis; as the Prison Chaplain in the Discovery Channel documentary, "Death Row: The Final 24 Hours," produced by the UK's leading producer of factual television, WAGtv; in the lead role of George the ex-cop in the Rainer Moore short, "The Bend;" and as infamous New Mexico rancher Oliver Milton Lee in the 1896-era Sean Pilcher/Matt Wilson Western, "Among the Dust of Thieves," which premiered January 10, 2013.