Christopher Smith (performer)
Christopher Robin Smith (born 1959) is an American actor, Film director, director and Improvisational comedy, improviser, best known for his improv workshops and his handful of appearances on ''Whose Line Is It Anyway? (UK TV series), Whose Line Is It Anyway?''. Raised in Parma Heights, Ohio, and a graduate of Valley Forge High School (Class of 1977), Smith began performing at an early age. Appearing in many productions throughout his high school years, Smith also sang with the legendary Cleveland area rock n' roll revival group "The Fabulous Brylcreams" from 1975 through August 1978. At this time he was attending Kenyon College and singing with the Kokosingers, an a cappella group that performed both locally and throughout the United States in addition to recording two albums. After graduating from Kenyon in 1981 with a degree in English, he moved to New York City to pursue an acting career. Smith, a graduate who part-studied at the University of Exeter in England, joined the Int ...
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Actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), literally "one who answers".''Hypokrites'' (related to our word for hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann (1978, 2); see also Csapo and Slater, who offer translations of classical source material using the term ''hypocrisis'' ( acting) (1994, 257, 265–267). The actor's interpretation of a rolethe art of actingpertains to the role played, whether based on a real person or fictional character. This can also be considered an "actor's role," which was called this due to scrolls being used in the theaters. Interpretation occurs even when the actor is "playing themselves", as in some forms of experimental performance art. Formerly, in ancient Greece and the medieval world, and in England at the time of ...
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