Chris Messina
Christopher Messina (born August 11, 1974) is an American actor, director, writer, and producer. He is best known for starring as Danny Castellano in the series The Mindy Project (2012–2017), which earned him two nominations for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series.
He has appeared in films such as Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008), Julie & Julia (2009), Devil (2010), Argo (2012), Ruby Sparks (2012), Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012), Cake (2014), Birds of Prey (2020), I Care a Lot (2020), Call Jane (2022), Air (2023) and The Boogeyman (2023). Messina wrote, executive produced, and starred in the comedy film Fairhaven (2012). He also directed and starred in the drama film Alex of Venice (2014).
On television, Messina appeared as Ted Fairwell in the HBO drama series Six Feet Under (2005), Chris Sanchez in the Audience Network legal thriller series Damages (2011–2012), Reese Lansing in the HBO political drama series The Newsroom (2012–2014), Richard Willis in the HBO miniseries Sharp Objects (2018), Nick Haas in the USA Network crime drama series The Sinner (2020), Angelo Lano in the Starz political miniseries Gaslit (2022), and as Nathan Bartlett in the Peacock comedy thriller Based on a True Story (2023).
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.1219 |
| Birthday | 1974-08-11 |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Also Known As | Christopher Messina, 克里斯·梅西納, کریس مسینا, Christopher "Chris" Messina, |
2008
Made of Honor
6.442/1772
Tom and Hannah have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't found Mr. Right. Just as Tom is start...
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Made of Honor
2008
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
6.8/3998
Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relations...
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2023
Dreamin' Wild
6.1/28
The true story of the Emerson family and the tumult that followed the success of their self-recorded pop-funk album of the same name, which went large...
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Dreamin' Wild
2009
Julie & Julia
6.714/2200
Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time and space, both women are at loose...
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Julie & Julia
2010
Greenberg
5.89/621
Roger Greenberg, a failed musician now making a living as a carpenter in New York, returns to Los Angeles to house-sit for his brother. He's stranded...
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Greenberg
2000
Turn It Up
4.75/28
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Turn It Up
2009
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
5.1/75
After her boyfriend mysteriously leaves her with little explanation, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at a prestigious East Coast university is le...
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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
2008
Humboldt County
5.6/41
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Humboldt County
2011
Like Crazy
6.355/1076
A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the U.S. after overstaying her visa.
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Like Crazy
2006
Ira & Abby
5.591/33
A neurotic, young psychology student, with low self-esteem, has a chance encounter with a free-spirited, extremely gregarious woman who works at the P...
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Ira & Abby
2010
Devil
6.104/3090
A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the devil.
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Devil
2012
Argo
7.284/8902
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter...
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Argo
2009
Away We Go
6.662/623
Verona and Burt have moved to Colorado to be close to Burt's parents but, with Verona expecting their first child, Burt's parents inexplicably decide...
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Away We Go
2023
The Boogeyman
6.386/1076
Still reeling from the tragic death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves plagued by a sadistic presence in their hou...
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The Boogeyman
2010
Monogamy
4.2/16
Exhibitionism, voyeurism, jealousy, lust. Brooklyn wedding photographer Theo’s side business shooting surveillance-style photos of clients on the sly...
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Monogamy
2018
Too Long at the Fair
0/0
Charlie and Val are best friends and owners of a fledgeling Princess party business in Los Angeles. After a mishap at a client’s party, the two find t...
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Too Long at the Fair
2012
28 Hotel Rooms
5.5/70
While traveling for work in a city far from their homes, a novelist and a corporate accountant find themselves in bed together. Although she’s married...
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28 Hotel Rooms
2012
Celeste & Jesse Forever
6.4/499
Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in...
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Celeste & Jesse Forever
2010
An Invisible Sign
5.2/117
Mona Gray is a 20-year-old loner who, as a child, turned to math for salvation after her father became ill. As an adult, Mona now teaches the subject...
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An Invisible Sign
2012
The Giant Mechanical Man
6.5/167
An offbeat romantic comedy about a silver-painted street performer and the soft spoken zoo worker who falls for him.
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The Giant Mechanical Man
2012
Ruby Sparks
7.119/1759
Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing – as well as his romantic life....
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Ruby Sparks
2013
Fairhaven
5.2/13
Long-time friends reconnect when one returns to their small Massachusetts town for a funeral.
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Fairhaven
2022
The Aviary
5.3/40
A twisted journey of two women’s desperate flee to escape the clutches of Skylight, an insidious cult. Lured in by the promise of “freedom” in the iso...
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The Aviary
2012
Denise
7/2
A girl helps a guy untangle his web of lies.
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Denise
2009
Anatomy of Hope
1/1
Medical drama based on the lives of cancer patients. Based on Jerome Groopman's "The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness."
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Anatomy of Hope
2023
Air
7.284/2306
Discover the game-changing partnership between a then undiscovered Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the wo...
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Air
2015
Manglehorn
5.419/224
AJ Manglehorn is an aging, ordinary guy in a small town. He nurses his sick cat, squeezes out a conversation with the local bank teller every Friday,...
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Manglehorn
2014
Showing Up
9.2/3
An unprecedented look at the audition, compiled from more than 50 interviews with notable artists including Kristin Chenoweth, Richard Griffiths, Zoe...
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Showing Up
2015
Alex of Venice
5.902/82
After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of caring for her young son, ailing fa...
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Alex of Venice
We're Just Married
0/0
A suburban wife ends her marriage after having an affair with her neighbor.
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We're Just Married
2008
Towelhead
6.21/157
A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist, and her strict father during the Gulf War.
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Towelhead
2024
Juror #2
6.886/2439
While serving as a juror in a high profile murder trial, family man Justin Kemp finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma…one he could use...
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Juror #2
2014
Cake
6.275/933
After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suic...
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Cake
2015
Digging for Fire
5.206/155
Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood Hills is complicated by Tim's discovery of a bone and...
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Digging for Fire
2014
Palo Alto
6.119/909
A lack of parental guidance encourages teens in an affluent California town to rebel with substance abuse and casual sex.
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Palo Alto
1998
Rounders
7.016/1915
Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American gangster Teddy KGB. Promising his p...
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Rounders
2019
Zeroville
5.07/93
A young actor arrives in Hollywood in 1969 during a transitional time in the Industry.
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Zeroville
2011
The Trouble with Bliss
4.9/59
35-year-old Morris Bliss is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia: he wants to travel but has no money, he needs a job but has no prospects, he...
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The Trouble with Bliss
2014
The Oven
6/1
A young couple get into a fight before a very important party. Little do they know an outsider has tuned into their conversation.
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The Oven
2016
Ordinary World
5.719/98
Perry is a happily married father of two living a comfortable but sedate life in the suburbs. On the occasion of his 40th birthday, he seeks to revisi...
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Ordinary World
2017
The Sweet Life
6.176/34
Kenny is an ice cream vendor in Chicago with a crisp white uniform and an apathetic heart. When he encounters Lolita, a sharp-tongued but despondent i...
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The Sweet Life
2016
Live by Night
6.275/1396
A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition and the Ku Klux Klan.
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Live by Night
1998
You've Got Mail
6.7/3614
Book superstore magnate Joe Fox and independent book shop owner Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware t...
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Lear Rex
0/0
An aging king splits up his kingdom for his three daughters to govern, but is misled about their affections and driven into exile.
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Lear Rex
2018
Blame
6.601/138
A drama teacher's taboo relationship with an unstable student strikes a nerve in her jealous classmate, sparking a vengeful chain of events within the...
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Blame
2019
The True Adventures of Wolfboy
5.9/58
Follows a young boy who runs away from home in the search of his estranged mother.
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The True Adventures of Wolfboy
2020
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
6.9/10769
Harley Quinn joins forces with a singer, an assassin and a police detective to help a young girl who had a hit placed on her after she stole a rare di...
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Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn)
2021
I Care a Lot
6.576/2958
A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her latest mark comes with some unexpected baggage.
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I Care a Lot
2020
The Secrets We Keep
5.952/273
In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous w...
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The Secrets We Keep
2021
Love Is Love Is Love
4.667/9
Three stories that explore love, commitment, and loyalty between couples and friends. "Two for Dinner" where a married couple temporarily...
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Love Is Love Is Love
1998
The Siege
6.296/1472
The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks in New York. An FBI senior agent...
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The Siege
2020
She Dies Tomorrow
5.1/180
Amy is ravaged by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow, which sends her down a dizzying emotional spiral. When her skeptical friend Jane disco...
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She Dies Tomorrow
2024
I.S.S.
5.784/379
Tensions flare in the near future aboard the International Space Station as a conflict breaks out on Earth. U.S. and Russian astronauts receive orders...
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I.S.S.
2022
Call Jane
6.5/202
A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion and works with a group of suburban women to...
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Call Jane
2026
Pressure
0/0
In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, and the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg face a...
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Pressure
2005
Road
4.5/3
Two exes take a dual-purpose road trip: allow Margaret (Catherine Kellner), a freelance photographer, to complete her assignment to check up on toxic...
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Road
Hellhound
0/0
When a zombie outbreak hits small-town New York, a washed-up veterinarian must team up with his ex-wife and her new cop boyfriend to stop President Wi...
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Hellhound
2007
Security
0/0
An immigration agent at Newark International Airport confronts an Iranian mother and her son. Based on the one act play by Israel Horovitz
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Security
Tumor
0/0
When the daughter of a wealthy politico goes missing, low-level Los Angeles PI Frank Armstrong embarks on a mission into the world of the young, privi...
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