Chi McBride Biography

Chi McBride (born September 23, 1961) is an African American actor.
McBride was born in Chicago, Illinois, and is unusual among actors in that he did not began his acting career until the age of 30. He is notable for his television roles on Boston Public, The John Larroquette Show, House, and Killer Instinct, and has also appeared in a number of films, including Gone in Sixty Seconds, The Frighteners, Narc, The Terminal, and I, Robot.
*

*
Convinced he should try his hand in front of the cameras, the singer moved to Los Angeles and, billed as 'Chi', landed guest spots on Fox's "In Living Color" and NBC's "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" as well as a featured role in the TV-movie "Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation" (Fox, 1992). Within a year, he had landed the role of Heavy Gene, the surly bus station janitor who decidedly did not like cleaning, on the sitcom "The John Larroquette Show" (NBC, 1993-96). McBride has also appeared in a handful of features including the Eddie Murphy vehicle "The Distinguished Gentleman" (1992) and Peter Jackson's "The Frighteners" (1996), as one of the trio of ghosts in cahoots with Michael J Fox. He also appears in a prominent supporting role alongside Tim Roth, Vanessa Williams and Laurence Fishburne in Bill Duke's "Hoodlum" (1997).
McBride returned to sitcoms as a fictional British butler to US President Abraham Lincoln in the slightly controversial UPN series "The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer" (1998). After that series' quick demise, McBride landed roles in "Disney's The Kid" and "Gone in 60 Seconds" (both 2000) before returning to the small screen playing Steven Harper, the beleaguered principal of a big city high school in David E. Kelley's "Boston Public" (Fox, 2000-2004), a role he essayed to excellent effect (he was nominated for an AFI TV Series Actor of the Year award and a Golden Satellite Award for the part) despite increasingly improbable storylines.

CHI MCBRIDE PICTURES

1 - 2

CHI MCBRIDE BIOGRAPHY