Christopher Guest Biography, Age, Family, Wife, Children, Career And Net Worth.

Christopher Guest ( born Christopher Haden-Guest,) 5th Baron Haden-Guest is a British-American screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor, and comedian who holds dual British and American citizenship. He is most widely known in Hollywood for having written, directed and starred in his series of comedy films shot in mock-documentary (mockumentary) style.

Christopher Guest Age

Christopher Haden-Guest was born in New York City, New York, U.S, in February 5, 1948 (70 years) as of 2018.

Christopher Guest Family

Guest was born in New York City, to Peter Haden-Guest, a British United Nations diplomat who later became the 4th Baron Haden-Guest, and his second wife, Jean Pauline Hindes, an American former vice president of casting at CBS. He has two brothers Nicholas Guest, Anthony Haden-Guest and a sister Elissa Guest.

Christopher Guest Wife

Guest married actress Jamie Lee Curtis in 1984. They have two adopted children: Anne born in 1986 and Thomas born in 1996.

Christopher Guest Career

Guest began his career in theatre in the early 1970s. One of his earliest professional performances was the role of Norman in Michael Weller’s Moonchildren for the play’s American premiere at the Arena Stage in Washington D.C. on November 1971.

The following year he began making contributions to The National Lampoon Radio Hour for a variety of National Lampoon audio recordings. He performed comic characters including Flash Bazbo—Space Explorer, Mr. Rogers, music critic Roger de Swans, and sleazy record company rep Ron Fields. He also wrote, arranged and performed numerous musical parodies including those of Bob Dylan, and James Taylor. He was featured alongside Chevy Chase and John Belushi in the Off-Broadway revue National Lampoon’s Lemmings.

In 1977, he played a small role as Jim in All In The Family episode “Mike and Gloria Meet”, wherein a flashback sequence Mike and Gloria recall their first blind date, set up by Michael’s college buddy Jim, who dated Gloria’s girlfriend Debbie (Priscilla Lopez).

In 1984, Guest had his biggest role in Nigel Tufnel, Rob Reiner film This Is Spinal Tap. He made his first appearance as Tufnel on the 1978 sketch comedy program The TV Show. He was hired as a one-year-only cast member for the 1984–85 season on NBC’s Saturday Night Live. He and Crystal appeared as retired Negro league baseball players, “The Rooster and the King”, in another short film from SNL.

He also appeared as Count Rugen in The Princess Bride. In 1986, he had a cameo role as the first customer, a pedestrian, musical remake of The Little Shop of Horrors, that also featured Steve Martin.

In 1996, Guest began writing, directing and acting in his own series of substantially improvised films. Many of them came to be definitive examples of mock-documentary (mockumentaries) He maintains that his intention is not to mock anyone, but to explore insular, perhaps obscure communities through his method of film making.

Together, Eugene Levy (his frequent writing partner), Guest and a small band of other actors have formed a loose repertory group, which appear across several films. They include Catherine O’Hara, Michael McKean, Parker Posey, Bob Balaban, Jane Lynch, John Michael Higgins, Harry Shearer, Jennifer Coolidge, Ed Begley, Jr., and Fred Willard. He and Levy write backgrounds for each of the characters and note cards for each specific scene, outlining the plot, and then leave it up to the actors to improvise the dialogue, which is supposed to result in a much more natural conversation than scripted dialogue would.

Guest appeared as Dr. Stone in A Few Good Men in 1992, as Lord Cromer in Mrs. Henderson Presents in 2005 and in the comedy The Invention of Lying, in 2009.

He is also currently a member of the musical group The Beyman Bros, which he formed with childhood friend David Nichtern and Spinal Tap’s current keyboardist C. J. Vanston. Their first album Memories of Summer as a Child was released on January 20, 2009.

Guest is a member of the board of trustees for Berklee College of Music in Boston and holds an honorary doctorate from the same college. He is the recent writer and producer of the HBO series, Family Tree, a lighthearted story in the style he made famous in Spinal Tap, in which the main character, Tom Chadwick, inherits a box of curios from his great aunt, spurring interest in his ancestry.

In 2010, the United States Census Bureau paid $2.5 million to have a television commercial directed by Guest shown during television coverage of Super Bowl XLIV.

Christopher Guest Net Worth

He has an estimated net worth of 30 million dollars.

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