Chris Noth

Chris Noth began his theater career with Circle Repertory Company, appearing in Innocent Thoughts, Harmless Intentions (1980). While studying at Yale School of Drama, he performed in The Lower Depths (1982–1983), A Play of Giants (1984), Rum and Coke (1985), The Hostage, Three Sisters, and Pericles, Prince of Tyre. He graduated from Yale School of Drama in 1985.

Noth continued his stage career with Hamlet at the American Shakespeare Festival (1986), The Torch at Milwaukee Repertory Theater (1988–1989), O Pioneers! at Seattle Repertory Theatre (1989), and Arms and the Man at Roundabout Theatre (1989). He also performed with La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club and the Mark Taper Forum. His later theater credits included Patronage (1997), Klonsky and Schwartz (2002–2003), and The Heiress (1998), a radio production.

Noth made his Broadway debut in The Best Man (2000), playing Senator Joseph Cantwell. He subsequently appeared in What Didn't Happen (2002), On the March to the Sea (2005), American Buffalo (2005), Farragut North (2008) at Atlantic Theatre Company and the Geffen Playhouse (2009), and That Championship Season (2011). In 2019, he appeared Off-Broadway in The Mother.

In film and television, Noth appeared in Smithereens (1982), Baby Boom (1987), and Peluru dan Wanita (Bullets & Women) (1988). His television credits included Another World and Hill Street Blues (1986). He portrayed Detective Mike Logan in Law & Order (1990–1995) and reprised the role in Exiled: A Law & Order Movie (1998).

Noth appeared in Nothing Lasts Forever (1995), Touched by an Angel (1997), and Rough Riders (1997). From 1998 to 2004, he played Mr. Big in Sex and the City, reprising the role in the films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010). His other film and television credits during this period included Cast Away (2000), Crossing Jordan (2001), The Perfect Man (2005), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2005–2008), and My One and Only (2009).

From 2009 to 2016, Noth played Peter Florrick on The Good Wife. His additional credits included Titanic: Blood and Steel (2012), I Didn't Do It (2012), Lovelace (2013), Elsa & Fred (2014), After the Ball (2015), Tyrant (2016), White Girl (2016), and Chronically Metropolitan (2016).

In 2017, Noth played FBI agent Don Ackerman in Manhunt: Unabomber and FBI agent Frank Novak in Gone. He appeared as Jack Robertson in Doctor Who in 2018 and reprised the role in the 2021 special Revolution of the Daleks. In 2021, he played William Bishop in The Equalizer and reprised his role as Mr. Big in the Sex and the City continuation series And Just Like That....