Chris Hogan is a TV and film writer, producer and actor, having appeared on such TV shows as 'The Sopranos,'Mad TV' (one season), and 'Third Rock From the Sun.' He has also appeared onstage with The Actors Gang, and in films and commercials. He is currently in production on an animated comedy pilot he co-created and co-wrote for Fox Television.

Chris is from a town called Eastchester; in Westchester [outside New York City], one of eight kids. "My dad, an original Madison Avenue Mad Men guy, wanted me to go work for his ad agency." Hogan told the Trinity Reporter in 2014. "I said, 'No, I'm gonna paint houses on Cape Cod.' So I paint houses, then we start this little company, hiring a bunch of people. And then we started another company. And I thought, 'This isn't what I want to do.' My dad calls his best friend, who is John Cusack's father, Dick Cusack, who used to be in advertising [and says], 'Would you talk him into it?' Instead, Mr. Cusack told me, 'You have a facile imagination. You're a creative person, can't you see that?' He's the first person who ever spoke to me like that. 'Come to Chicago, live in our attic. Study with the Pivens. What are you going to be, 24 years old and look back on your life and say, 'I could have done something?'"¹ Chris remembers, "My dad was like, 'Not quite what I was hoping.'"

"So I moved to Chicago. I fell into this crowd of Northwestern [grads]. We started just tearing it up and did a show there called The Chris Hogan Show, a stream-of-consciousness improv show. Fox came to see it and flew us to L.A. We got signed by ICM by all these agents, and it was this big, crazy, weird ride. We had a deal with NBC; we had a show on E! I had a good career. And then I got kind of bored. And I decided to try something else. Two other guys and I started making videos for YouTube. We got nearly 3 million views for four videos. I sold a show to the producers of Two and a Half Men. It didn't get made, but I was like, 'Maybe I’m on to something."

In 2002, Chris married Elizabeth Ann Porter, a television executive, at the Roman Catholic Church of St. Vincent Ferrer in Manhattan.² She was a vice president for programming in Los Angeles for the USA Network, and then SVP Specials and Talent at Comedy Central, and is now EVP of Development and Series at Relativity Media's TV division.


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¹—Johnson, Ross. From Hartford to Hollywood: "Chris Hogan '85 is a TV and film writer, actor, and video producer. He has acted on stage and in a number of television shows, films, and commercials. He is currently in production on an animated comedy pilot he co-created and co-wrote for Fox Television.." Trinity Reporter (Fall, 2014).

²—Weddings/Celebrations; Elizabeth Porter, Chris Hogan: "Mr. Hogan, 39, is based in Los Angeles and has appeared on 'The Sopranos,' 'Mad TV,' 'Third Rock From the Sun' and other television shows. He graduated from Trinity College in Hartford. He is a son of John F. Hogan Sr. of Broomfield, Colo., and the late Joan Vail Hogan. His father retired as the chairman of DePalma & Hogan Advertising, which was in White Plains." The New York Times (November 10, 2002; Section 9, Page 17).


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