Chris Noth

Noth was born November 13, 1954, in Madison, Wisconsin, the youngest of three boys, to news reporter Jeanne Parr (1924–2016). Parr was one of the first female correspondents for CBS News, and host of her own CBS talk show The Jeanne Parr Show.{{cite web |last=McClendon |first=Lamarco |title=Jeanne Parr, TV correspondent and Chris Noth's mom, dies |url=https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/jeanne-parr-dead-chris-noth-mom-cbs-correspondent-1201782061/ |work=Variety |date=May 24, 2016}} His father was Charles James Noth (1922–1966), a marketing-company vice president{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/03/15/archives/charles-james-noth.html | work=The New York Times | title=Charles James Noth | date=March 15, 1966}} {{subscription required}} and insurance agent{{cite web |title=Noth promoting life insurance awareness |url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2009/07/13/Noth-promoting-life-insurance-awareness/77451247496875/ |website=UPI |date=July 13, 2009}} who was a naval aviator in World War II and served as Ensign on the {{USS|Antietam|CV-36|6}} during the Korean War. Charles came from a wealthy family in Chicago, and his mother had Irish ancestry that traces back to Knockbride in County Cavan.{{cite web |title=Chris Noth, Season 7 Episode 5 |url=https://www.tlc.com/tv-shows/who-do-you-think-you-are/full-episodes/chris-noth |website=Who Do You Think You Are? |publisher=TLC |date=May 1, 2016}}{{cite web |title=Noth's landing as Mr Big visits Cavan |url=https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2016/0128/763722-noths-landing-mr-big-hits-cavan-for-ancestry-search/ |website=RTÉ |date=January 29, 2016}}

Noth's family settled in Stamford, Connecticut, when he was five.{{cite web |last1=Glaze |first1=Jeff |title=Jeanne Parr, subject of Madison's famed Life magazine cover, dead at 92 |url=https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/jeanne-parr-subject-of-madison-s-famed-life-magazine-cover/article_c2857b18-a5ab-55d3-8e06-393fdaf2b68e.html |website=Wisconsin State Journal |date=May 25, 2016}}{{cite web |last1=Mills |first1=Nancy |title=AT SEA FOR NOW |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-09-29-9309290091-story.html |website=Chicago Tribune |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200103193323/https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-09-29-9309290091-story.html |archive-date=January 3, 2020 |date=September 29, 1993 |url-status=live}} Noth grew up in Connecticut while his parents worked in New York City.{{cite web |title=Beyond Mr Big |url=https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/beyond-mr-big-20060601-ge2f9a.html |website=The Age |date=June 1, 2006}} His parents separated when he was 9 or 10, and his father died in a car accident in 1966 when he was 11. According to Noth, "losing my father left a crater in my life" and he found father figures in many teachers and certain friends of his mother's. While Parr was working as a CBS news reporter in New York during the 1960s, Noth often got into trouble. He was into vandalism and was smoking marijuana and driving at a very young age. During Parr's brief second marriage, the family moved to southern California in 1969, returning to New York in the early 1970s.{{cite news |title=Jeanne Parr Noth |url=http://www.lakeplacidnews.com/page/content.detail/id/525313/Jeanne-Parr-Noth.html |work=Lake Placid News |date=June 2, 2016 |access-date=January 7, 2020 |archive-date=June 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603144316/http://lakeplacidnews.com/page/content.detail/id/525313/Jeanne-Parr-Noth.html |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |last1=Bauernebel |first1=Herbert |title=Big in New York: 20 years of "Sex and the City" |url=https://www.ooom.com/digital/big-in-new-york-20-jahre-sex-and-the-city/3/ |website=OOOM Magazine |pages=3 |date=July 19, 2018 |access-date=January 6, 2020 |archive-date=January 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220126080656/https://www.ooom.com/digital/big-in-new-york-20-jahre-sex-and-the-city/3/ |url-status=dead }} Noth said that he started taking LSD with friends at age 15, once walking into someone else's house in Newport Beach while high and jumping naked off their pier into the water.{{sfn|Douglas|2017|loc=time 28:07}}

After Noth took a neighbor's car for a joyride and it rolled into another neighbor's house, his mother sent him to an all-boys boarding school (Storm King School) where he spent his freshman year (1968-1969).{{cite magazine |last1=Jaurez |first1=Vanessa |title=Chris Noth's career |url=https://ew.com/article/2008/05/16/chris-noths-career/ |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=May 16, 2008}}{{sfn|Douglas|2017|loc=time 26:30}} Noth persuaded his mother to let him leave Storm King School to attend an experimental coed school called The Barlow School in Dutchess County, New York, instead. Poet-dissenter Peter Kane Dufault taught American history at the school.{{cite web |last1=Hall |first1=Anthony F. |title=Placid: Chris Noth Presents 'What I Meant to Tell You' |url=https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2010/09/placid-chris-noth-presents-what-i-meant-to-tell-you.html |website=The Adirondack Almanac |date=September 10, 2010}}{{cite web |title=Screening of intimate portrait of poet Peter Kane Dufault to be followed by discussion with director Ethan Dufault, September 21, 2011. |url=https://www.vassar.edu/news/announcements/2011-2012/110906-dufault-screening.html |website=Vassar College |date=September 6, 2011 |access-date=February 7, 2020 |archive-date=February 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200207012626/https://www.vassar.edu/news/announcements/2011-2012/110906-dufault-screening.html |url-status=dead }} Noth said Dufault was the best teacher he ever had, "He opened up a way of life to me, a life of the imagination; he showed us ... that life can be developed and explored through poetry". For Noth, this school with young artist teachers "for many of us, not relating to our parents, it became our real home", and although "the academics were a little shaky", this art school, with no grades, completely changed his life to focus on the arts. By 1973, he was "totally into being a hippie" with long hair. After graduation, he moved to Brooklyn with his girlfriend when he was eighteen,{{cite web|url=https://www.amny.com/entertainment/chris-noth-on-his-new-film-white-girl-and-losing-himself-in-nyc-1-12247350/|title=Chris Noth on his new film, 'White Girl,' and losing himself in NYC|last1=Alexandra|first1=Keira|date=August 31, 2016|website=AmNY}} and worked at a school for the mentally disabled.

Noth attended Marlboro College in Vermont, originally intending to be a writer or poet.{{cite web |last1=Whitty |first1=Stephen |title='Sex and the City 2' star Chris Noth is Mr. Big deal |url=https://www.nj.com/entertainment/movies/2010/05/sex_and_the_city_2_star_chris_noth_is_mr_big_deal.html |website=NJ.com |date=May 23, 2010}} He received a classically oriented education and studied English literature and religion.{{cite web |last1=Pearlman |first1=Cindy |title=Meet Mr. Big |url=https://www.todayschicagowoman.com/readers/july2001/mrbig.htm |website=Today's Chicago Woman |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020511133247/http://www.todayschicagowoman.com/readers/july2001/mrbig.htm |archive-date=May 11, 2002 |date=July 2001 |access-date=January 12, 2020 |url-status=live }} Although the college did not have a theatre department, he discovered acting after joining the repertory theatre company to get out of Latin class.{{cite web |last1=Carpenter |first1=Cassie |title=Chris Noth - Tech and the City |url=https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/chris-noth-tech-city-27225/ |website=Backstage |date=February 11, 2004}}{{cite magazine |last=Kaplan |first=Barry Jay |date=Fall 2015 |title=Christopher Noth...on a role |url=https://issuu.com/yalerep/docs/ysd_annual_magazine_2015/30 |magazine=Yale School of Drama Annual Alumni Magazine 2015 |via=issuu |publisher=Yale School of Drama | pages=29 |volume=LVV |access-date=January 6, 2020}} He first appeared on stage in the play She Stoops To Conquer, where he enjoyed the audience's unexpected laughter.{{cite news |title=NOTH USES THEATER TRAINING ON 'LAW & ORDER' |url=https://www.deseret.com/1992/7/10/18993783/noth-uses-theater-training-on-law-order |work=Deseret News |agency=Associated Press |date=July 10, 1992}} After acting in a production of The Zoo Story by Edward Albee, his goals were set on becoming a stage actor.{{cite web |last1=Fine |first1=Marshall |title=Living Large |url=https://www.cigaraficionado.com/index.php/article/living-large-15479 |website=Cigar Aficionado |date=May 2010}} After graduation, he was eager to perform in The New York Repertory Theatre but found that there was not much work for young actors in New York after arriving in late 1978.{{cite news |title=THEATER; Getting Personal About Yale's Drama School |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/12/theater/theater-getting-personal-about-yale-s-drama-school.html |newspaper=The New York Times |last=Stevens |first=Andrea |date=November 12, 2000}}{{sfn|Douglas|2017|loc=time 34:14}} The first and only job he could get was as a daytime bartender at the Only Child Restaurant, not realizing there was a brothel above the basement pub.{{cite web |last1=Salisbury |first1=Vanita |title=Chris Noth Is As Old As Old New York |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/06/chris-noth-is-as-old-as-old-new-york.html |website=New York |date=June 13, 2014}} He was accepted into the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre to study with acting teacher Sanford Meisner. He stayed in maid's rooms for little or no money in exchange for cleaning the house on a weekly basis. The school did not allow students to work in the theatre, and Noth was expelled after a photo appeared of him in The New York Times acting in a 1979 Manhattan Theatre Club play about an IRA bombing victim.{{cite news |title=Photographs by Gerry Goodstein |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/05/20/archives/article-4-no-title.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 20, 1979 |page=D6 |quote='JUST A LITTLE BIT LESS THAN NORMAL'-Josh Clark and Christopher Noth are in Nigel Baldwin's drama, today at the Manhattan Theatre Club. |url-access=subscription}}

• {{cite news |title=Play: 'Less Than Normal'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/05/21/archives/play-less-than-normal-victim-of-the-ira.html |work=The New York Times |last1=Eder |first1=Richard |author-link=Richard Eder |date=May 21, 1979 |page=C14}}
• {{cite web |title=Theatre: Apocalypse? Naaah! |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_uACAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA73 |work=New York |last1=Simon |first1=John |author-link=John Ivan Simon |date=June 4, 1979 |pages=73–74}}

He also studied script analysis{{cite web|url=http://popbuff.com/la-costa-film-festival-honors-chris-noth/|title=La Costa Film Festival 2016 Honors Chris Noth|last1=Freibrun|first1=Ruchel|date=October 26, 2016|website=popbuff.com}} with Stella Adler.

Noth "did off-off Broadway and was a bad waiter in a dozen different restaurants for five years." He was fired from a number of restaurants, once for forgetting to return Governor Hugh Carey's credit card with the bill, and settled into cater-waitering bar mitzvahs and weddings.{{sfn|Douglas|2017|loc=time 34:14}} Noth got his Actors' Equity membership while at the Circle Rep Lab.{{sfn|Douglas|2017|loc=time 36:38}} In Circle Repertory Company's 1980 production of Innocent Thoughts, Harmless Intentions he played soldier James "Duke" Wade in an Alaskan army outpost in 1951–52, part of what the Christian Science Monitor called a "convincing squad of Actors' Equity enlisted men" in a play that was "impressively acted".{{cite book |last=Heuer |first=John |date=1980 |title=Innocent Thoughts, Harmless Intentions |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6CW-reTHXcQC&pg=PA3 |publisher=Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |page=3 |isbn=0822205718}}

• {{cite web |last=Beaufort |first=John |title=One of the Off Broadway's season's funniest; Innocent Thoughts, Harmless Intentions Drama by John Heuer. Directed by B. Rodney Marriott. |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1980/0312/031207.html |website=The Christian Science Monitor |date=March 12, 1980}}
• {{cite news |last=Gusso |first=Mel |title=Stage: Circle Rep Offers A Drama About a Loner; Pianist Replaces Rodney At Crawdaddy The Cast |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1980/03/08/archives/stage-circle-rep-offers-a-drama-about-a-loner-pianist-replaces.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 8, 1980}} He auditioned for Juilliard and Yale University and was accepted by both.{{cite magazine |last=Kaplan |first=Barry Jay |date=Fall 2015 |title=Christopher Noth...on a role |url=https://issuu.com/yalerep/docs/ysd_annual_magazine_2015/32 |magazine=Yale School of Drama Annual Alumni Magazine 2015 |via=issuu |publisher=Yale School of Drama | pages=31 |volume=LVV |access-date=January 6, 2020}} He chose the shorter three-year degree at Yale School of Drama, where he got a scholarship.

Noth acted in 25 or more plays while studying at Yale School of Drama,{{cite web |title=Law & Order -- Chris Noth |url=https://www.wetv.com/shows/law-order/cast/detective-mike-logan |website=WEtv |access-date=January 27, 2020}} attending classes during the day and acting in plays at night. Noth's first-year acting project at Yale was the Maxim Gorky play The Lower Depths in 1982–1983. In 1984, Frank Rich of The New York Times wrote that of the supporting cast, only Noth's and Ray Aranha's performances "leaves firm impressions" in the world premiere of the Wole Soyinka political satire A Play of Giants at Yale Repertory Theatre, where Noth played a sculptor creating a portrait of African dictators gathered at a United Nations embassy.{{cite news |title=STAGE: 'A PLAY OF GIANTS' BY SOYINKA |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/11/arts/stage-a-play-of-giants-by-soyinka.html |newspaper=The New York Times |last1=Rich |first1=Frank |author-link1=Frank Rich |date=December 11, 1984}} In 1985, Noth acted in Keith Reddin's Rum and Coke at Yale Repertory Theatre, a play about the orchestration of the Bay of Pigs Invasion.{{cite web |title=A #tbt from the Yale Rep archives |url=https://www.facebook.com/yalerep/photos/a.418028506383/10155482794751384/?type=3 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/facebook/42441466383/10155482794751384 |archive-date=2022-02-26 |url-access=limited|publisher=Yale Repertory Theatre |date=August 30, 2018 |quote=Christopher Noth...in Keith Reddin's RUM AND COKE...1985. |via=Facebook}}{{cbignore}}

• {{cite news |title='Rum and Coke,' A New Play by Keith Reddin, Opens Off-Broadway |url=https://apnews.com/6dad29672727ca42c91a127cf6029aad |work=Associated Press |last1=Kuchwara |first1=Michael |date=January 27, 1986}}

By Noth's third year, he signed with an agent who saw him in a YSD production of Brendan Behan's The Hostage. Noth was also in Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters and William Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre at YSD.{{cite web |last1=Gunnison |first1=Liz |title=TV star talks |url=https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2003/04/18/tv-star-talks/ |website=Yale Daily News |date=April 18, 2003}}

After graduating with an MFA in 1985, Noth told his agent he would not do television and went on the theater circuit. His preference to work in theater informed his decision to live in New York instead of Los Angeles. However, roles were slow to come and he decided he could do television to survive. In 1986, while working on the TV series Hill Street Blues in Los Angeles, Noth heard that Zoe Caldwell would be directing Hamlet at the American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford, Connecticut and successfully auditioned for the title role.{{cite news |title=Chris Noth|url=https://www.broadway.com/buzz/11269/chris-noth/ |work=Broadway.com |last1=Henderson |first1=Kathy |date=November 10, 2008}} The play was performed for student groups in the spring season that year and Noth felt the enthusiastic response of students from the inner cities to Hamlet's soliloquies made it one of his greatest experiences.{{cite news |title=THEATER; FOR TWO SUMMER THEATERS, A CONTRAST IN FORTUNES |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/11/nyregion/theater-for-two-summer-theaters-a-contrast-in-fortunes.html |newspaper=The New York Times |location=New York City|last1=Klein |first1=Alvin |date=May 11, 1986}} In the 1988/89 season of Milwaukee Repertory Theater, he played a murderous bandit in the experimental Chilean play The Torch.{{cite web |title=1988–1989: The Torch |url=https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/mkerep/id/1040 |website=Milwaukee Repertory Theater Photographic History |publisher=University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries |quote=Christopher Noth as El Hachon. |access-date=January 23, 2020}} In April 1989, Noth played "bohemian--out of place, angry with the world" Frank Shabata in Darrah Cloud's adaption of the Willa Cather novel O Pioneers! in the Other Season at Seattle Repertory Theatre, co-produced by Women's Project.{{cite book |editor1-last=Miles |editor1-first=Julia |title=Playwriting Women : 7 Plays from the Women's Project |publisher=Heinemann |location=Portsmouth, New Hampshire|year=1993 |isbn=0435086170 |pages=55, 56 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZA1aAAAAMAAJ&q=shabata+%22christopher+noth%22}}

• {{cite news|last=Rousuck |first=J. Wynn |title='O PIONEERS!' PLOWS FERTILE GROUND |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1990-11-18-1990322099-story.html |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun |publisher=Tribune Publishing|location=Baltimore, Maryland|date=November 18, 1990 |quote="After nearly three years of work, including workshops in New York and Seattle..."}}

He also appeared in George Bernard Shaw play Arms and the Man at the Roundabout Theatre in 1989 as Sergius Saranoff. The New York Times wrote that Noth's acting "captures the strutting buffoon in the character" but lost "the more pitiable side", while The Christian Science Monitor wrote if "Noth's swaggering Sergius were any more Sergius-like, he would burst out of his uniform".{{cite news |title=Review/Theater; Shaw's Mockery of Victorian Society |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/06/05/theater/review-theater-shaw-s-mockery-of-victorian-society.html |newspaper=The New York Times |location=New York City|last1=Hampton |first1=Wilborn |date=June 5, 1989 }}{{cite web |last1=Beaufort |first1=John |title=Shaw's Anti-Heroic, Anti-War Relic Is Anti-Climactic Today |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/1989/0619/larm.html|website=The Christian Science Monitor |publisher=Christian Science Publishing Society|location=Boston, Massachusetts|date=June 19, 1989}} Noth acted in plays for La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club and L.A.'s Mark Taper Forum.

In 1997, Noth played an opera composer in the Romulus Linney play Patronage at Ensemble Studio Theatre's 20th Annual Festival of New One-Act Plays. The New York Times wrote "the actors are so good that they may have put more flesh on the characters than even Mr. Linney intended" and that Noth and co-star Dana Reeve were "amusingly synchronized as they purred in unison...to the strains of Schubert".{{cite news |title=Adultery and Regrets, in One-Acts |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/05/28/arts/adultery-and-regrets-in-one-acts.html |newspaper=The New York Times|last1=Marks |first1=Peter |date=May 28, 1997}} Linney became friends with Noth when they worked together on Patronage and Noth encouraged him to write a play about Delmore Schwartz as Noth "is a poet himself and loves the poetry of Delmore Schwartz", according to Linney.{{cite journal |last1=McGregor |first1=Michael |title=Profiles: Romulus Linney: Under the Radar |journal=American Theatre |date=April 2004 |volume=21 |issue=4 |page=67 |id={{ProQuest|220588389}} }} Noth performed in the 2002 staged reading of Linney's play Klonsky and Schwartz at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's annual Playwrights Conference{{cite web |last1=Kuchwara |first1=Michael |title=At the O'Neill Center, the Process Is the Thing |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jul-26-et-kuchwara26-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |date=July 26, 2002}} and helped workshop the play at the 2003 Last Frontier Theatre Conference.{{cite web |title=Klonsky and Schwartz |url=https://omeka.library.appstate.edu/exhibits/show/romulus-linney/history-plays/klonsky-and-schwartz |website=Romulus Linney - Appalachian State University Libraries Digital Collections |publisher=Appalachian State University |access-date=February 7, 2020}} In 1998, while working on Sex and the City before its TV debut, Noth did his first radio play as fortune-hunter Morris Townsend in the Voice of America production of The Heiress, an adaptation of the Henry James novel Washington Square, opposite Amy Irving in the title role.{{cite news |last1=Fisher |first1=Marc |title=TUNING IN TO THE DRAMA OF YESTERYEAR |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1998/02/18/tuning-in-to-the-drama-of-yesteryear/5d861382-c509-4bda-8851-1bc095bb5173/ |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=February 18, 1998}}

In 2000, Noth made his Broadway debut in a revival of Gore Vidal's 1960 play The Best Man at Virginia Theatre as the conniving Senator Joseph Cantwell.{{cite web |last1=Connelly |first1=Sheryl |title=BEST MAN FOR THE JOB Chris Noth brings some serious charm to Broadway |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/best-man-job-chris-noth-brings-serious-charm-broadway-article-1.883178 |newspaper=New York Daily News |date=August 13, 2000}}{{cite web |last1=Isherwood |first1=Charles |title=Gore Vidal's The Best Man |url=https://variety.com/2000/legit/reviews/gore-vidal-s-the-best-man-2-1200464222/ |website=Variety |date=September 18, 2000}}{{cite news |title=THEATER REVIEW; A Timeless Morality Tale Cloaked in Politics |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/18/theater/theater-review-a-timeless-morality-tale-cloaked-in-politics.html |newspaper=The New York Times |last=Brantley |first=Ben |author-link=Ben Brantley |date=September 18, 2000}} Variety wrote that Noth "plays the role capably but without the seething edge required" and The New York Times wrote Noth "never gives Cantwell the all-consuming, compulsive drive" and the "variations on Nixonian tics..have the imposed feeling of a director's suggestions." A few months later The New York Times wrote the cast's performances improved significantly with Noth improving the most, having "achieved a fine balance between editorial cartoon and neurotic case study as the Nixonian man who would be president."{{cite news |title=THEATER GUIDE |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/29/movies/theater-guide.html?pagewanted=3 |newspaper=The New York Times |last=Brantley |first=Ben |author-link=Ben Brantley |date=December 20, 2000 |page=3 |quote=GORE VIDAL'S 'THE BEST MAN.'}} The revival went on to win a Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for outstanding revival of a play and was nominated for Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play.{{cite web |title=The Best Man Broadway @ Virginia Theatre |url=http://www.playbill.com/production/the-best-man-virginia-theatre-vault-0000005233 |website=Playbill |access-date=January 19, 2020}} In the 2002 premiere of Christopher Shinn's play What Didn't Happen at Playwrights Horizons, Noth's portrayal of Peter was described as "an enjoyably robust portrait" by The New York Times and "an endearing, minor-key star turn" by Variety.{{cite news |title=THEATER REVIEW; Eloquent Silences Among the Words |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/11/theater/theater-review-eloquent-silences-among-the-words.html |newspaper=The New York Times |last=Brantley |first=Ben |author-link=Ben Brantley |date=December 11, 2002}}{{cite web |title=What Didn't Happen |url=https://variety.com/2002/legit/reviews/what-didn-t-happen-1200544425/ |work=Variety |last1=Isherwood |first1=Charles |authorlink=Charles Isherwood|date=December 10, 2002}}

Noth played Colonel Thayer in a 2005 staged reading of a revival of another Gore Vidal play, the 1961 drama On the March to the Sea, presented by Theater Previews at Duke at Duke University.{{cite web |last1=Jones |first1=Kenneth |title=World Premiere Revision of Gore Vidal's On the March to the Sea Gets Starry Concert-Style Run in NC |url=http://www.playbill.com/article/world-premiere-revision-of-gore-vidals-on-the-march-to-the-sea-gets-starry-concert-style-run-in-nc-com-124258 |website=Playbill |date=February 18, 2005}}{{cite web |last1=Page |first1=Robert C. III|title=On the March to the Sea |url=https://variety.com/2005/legit/reviews/on-the-march-to-the-sea-1200527513/ |magazine=Variety |date=March 1, 2005}} According to reviews of his portrayal, "Noth effectively conveys a jaded, command soldier tired of war, sometimes ruthless, yet often philosophical and sympathetic", a contradictory character "beautifully evoked" as "fully and pitiably human" and comparable to Stanley Kowalski in his "deliberate malice";{{cite web |last1=Ross |first1=Scott |title=REVIEW: Theater Previews at Duke: Gore Vidal's On the March to the Sea Is an Invigorating Civil War Drama |url=https://cvnc.org/reviews/2005/022005/March.html |website=Classical Voice of North Carolina |access-date=February 7, 2020}} although Noth "followed the script" when it occasionally turned melodramatic.{{cite web |last=Woods |first=Byron |title=Forgiving Frame; Problematic Picture |url=https://indyweek.com/news/archives/forgiving-frame-problematic-picture/ |website=Indyweek |date=March 9, 2005}} Noth received glowing reviews as petty criminal "Teach" in David Mamet's play American Buffalo at the 2005 Berkshire Theatre Festival.{{cite web |last1=Rizzo |first1=Frank |title=American Buffalo |url=https://variety.com/2005/legit/reviews/american-buffalo-8-1117927801/|website=Variety |date=August 1, 2005}} In 2008, Noth portrayed Paul Zara in Beau Willimon's Off-Broadway debut play Farragut North staged by the Atlantic Theatre Company.{{cite web |title=Farragut North, Timely Play About a U.S. Political Campaign, Opens Nov. 12 |url=http://www.playbill.com/article/farragut-north-timely-play-about-a-us-political-campaign-opens-nov-12-com-155097 |website=Playbill |last1=Jones |first1=Kenneth |date=November 12, 2008}} The play had its world premiere in the week after the 2008 United States presidential election and The New York Times critic Ben Brantley wrote that he "enjoyed Mr. Noth's weary, bluff, stiff-jointed Paul."{{cite news |title=Those Who Traffic in Spin Can Get Caught in the Cycle |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/theater/reviews/13farr.html |newspaper=The New York Times |last=Brantley |first=Ben |author-link=Ben Brantley |date=November 13, 2008}}{{cite web |title=Farragut North |url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/theater/farragut-north |work=Time Out |last1=Feldman |first1=Adam |date=November 19, 2008 |access-date=January 27, 2020 |archive-date=January 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127014201/https://www.timeout.com/newyork/theater/farragut-north |url-status=dead }} In 2009, Noth reprised the role in the play's West coast debut at the Geffen Playhouse opposite Chris Pine.{{cite web |title=Chris Noth marks N.Y.-L.A. move with stage role |url=https://www.ocregister.com/2009/06/18/chris-noth-marks-ny-la-move-with-stage-role/ |work=OC Register |last1=Hodgins |first1=Paul |date=June 18, 2009}}{{cite web |title=Review: 'Farragut North' at the Geffen Playhouse |url=https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/06/review-farragut-north-at-the-geffen-playhouse.html |work=Los Angeles Times |last1=McNulty |first1=Charles |author-link=Charles McNulty |date=June 25, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200127014134/https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/06/review-farragut-north-at-the-geffen-playhouse.html|archive-date=January 27, 2020|url-status=live}} Sex and the City 2 director Michael Patrick King demanded Noth lose the weight he gained for his role in the play before filming began.{{cite news|last1=Bundy |first1=Brill |title='Sex and the City 2': Chris Noth too big for 'Big'|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-mobile-dishrag-story-052010-story.html |newspaper=Chicago Tribune |date=May 20, 2010}}{{cite magazine|last1=Lane |first1=Laura |title='SATC 2' Star Chris Noth Dishes on Getting in Shape |url=https://okmagazine.com/news/satc-2-star-chris-noth-dishes-getting-shape/ |magazine=OK! |date=May 15, 2010}}

In 2011, Noth starred in a Broadway revival of the 1972 play That Championship Season, playing Phil Romano.{{cite web|url=http://broadwayworld.com/article/Cox_Gaffigan_Noth_Patric_Sutherland_to_Star_in_THE_CHAMPIONSHIP_SEASON_20101102|title=Cox, Gaffigan, Noth, Patric & Sutherland to Star in THE CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON}} In 2019 Noth appeared with Isabelle Huppert in an Off-Broadway production of Florian Zeller's The Mother.{{cite news |last=Brantley |first=Ben |authorlink=Ben Brantley|url= https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/theater/review-the-mother-isabelle-huppert.html |title=Review: Isabelle Huppert Is a Nightmare to Remember in 'The Mother' |work=The New York Times |date=March 11, 2019 |access-date=March 12, 2019}}

Noth played small parts in films, including Smithereens (1982) and Baby Boom (1987) before his first starring role in the low-budget 1988 film Peluru dan Wanita (Bullets & Women) in Indonesia. Noth joined the cast of Hill Street Blues in the sixth season in 1986, where he was billed as "Christopher Noth." He also appeared in Another World.

Noth filmed a pilot for the legal/police drama series Law & Order in 1988, playing NYPD homicide detective Mike Logan.{{Cite book|last=Communications|first=Emmis|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_pV0EAAAAMBAJ|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_pV0EAAAAMBAJ/page/n138 117]|title=Los Angeles Magazine|date=2002|publisher=Emmis Communications|location=Los Angeles, California|language=en}} In 1990, NBC began airing Law & Order. Noth was fired from the show in 1995, due largely to creative friction with series creator Dick Wolf.{{cite news|url=http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/arts/story.html?id=cb48974b-3f02-40bc-a25b-c74d21261f7f|title=Actor Chris Noth has love-hate relationship with Law & Order|newspaper=Vancouver Sun|location=Canada|date=June 13, 2008|access-date=June 21, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120822002939/http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/arts/story.html?id=cb48974b-3f02-40bc-a25b-c74d21261f7f |archive-date=August 22, 2012|via=canada.com }} He reprised the role of Logan in 1998 for the Law & Order television film, Exiled: A Law & Order Movie.{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=Allan |title=Murder, He Wrote |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-11-03-9811030071-story.html |work=Chicago Tribune |date=November 3, 1998}}

In 1995, Noth had a supporting role in a CBS miniseries adaptation of the Sidney Sheldon novel Nothing Lasts Forever where he and Vanessa Williams portrayed lovers who are medical residents in a San Francisco hospital.{{cite magazine |last1=Sandler |first1=Adam |title=Sidney Sheldon's Nothing Lasts Forever |url=https://variety.com/1995/tv/reviews/sidney-sheldon-s-nothing-lasts-forever-1200443969/ |magazine=Variety |date=November 2, 1995}}{{cite news |last1=Johnson |first1=Steve |title=Once is Not Enough |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1995-11-03-9511030155-story.html |work=Chicago Tribune |date=November 3, 1995}}{{cite news |last1=Duffy |first1=Mike |title=TV preview: 'Nothing Lasts Forever' |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1995-11-05-1995309108-story.html |work=The Baltimore Sun |date=November 3, 1995}} Noth appeared in a 1997 episode of the TV series Touched by an Angel.{{cite magazine |last1=Tucker |first1=Ken |author-link=Ken Tucker |title=Touched By an Angel |url=https://ew.com/article/1997/06/13/touched-angel-2/ |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=June 13, 1997}}

• {{cite magazine |title=Touched By an Angel Season 3, Episode 23 |url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/touched-by-an-angel/episode-23-season-3/full-moon/100551/ |magazine=TV Guide |access-date=January 29, 2020}} In the 1997 television mini-series Rough Riders on TNT he portrayed Craig Wadsworth, a member of the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry.{{cite news |last1=Kaltenbach |first1=Chris |title='Rough Riders' loses track of story in thickets of detail TV: Miniseries about Teddy Roosevelt and the Spanish-American War needs to cut to the chase. |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1997-07-19-1997200097-story.html |newspaper=The Baltimore Sun |date=July 19, 1997}}{{cite news |last1=Boedeker |first1=Hal |title='ROUGHRIDERS' SAGA IS A LOT MORE BULL THAN 'BULLY' |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1997-07-20-9707180830-story.html |newspaper=Orlando Sentinel |date=July 20, 1997}}

From 1998 to 2004, Noth took the role of Carrie Bradshaw's on-again, off-again boyfriend "Big" on HBO's Sex and the City.{{cite news |last1=Thiem |first1=Rebecca |title=Mr. Big as metaphor for all the bad boys |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2002-02-13-0202130297-story.html |work=Chicago Tribune |date=February 13, 2002}} The role established Noth as a romantic comedian and he reprised it for the 2008 Sex and the City film and its 2010 sequel.{{cite magazine |last1=Real |first1=Evan |title='Sex and the City' Planned to Kill Off Mr. Big Early in Third Film |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sex-city-3-movie-featured-death-mr-big-1162689|magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |date=November 19, 2018}} He had a small role as Helen Hunt's husband in the film Cast Away (2000) starring Tom Hanks.{{cite magazine |title=Chris Noth |url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrities/chris-noth/ |magazine=Us Weekly |access-date=January 20, 2020}} In 2001, he played an FBI agent on a three-episode arc of Crossing Jordan.{{Cite web|url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-2001-11-19-0111160862-story.html|title=CROSSING JORDAN GETS BIG BOOST FROM NOTH|last=Jicha|first=Tom|website=Sun-Sentinel.com|date=November 19, 2001 |language=en-US|access-date=April 13, 2020}}

From 2005 to 2008, Noth returned to the role of Mike Logan on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, joining the show in its fifth season following a guest appearance on a fourth season episode. On this spin-off of the original Law & Order, Noth's detective team alternated episodes with Vincent D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe's characters.Stated in interview on Inside the Actors Studio{{cite news|first=Richard|last=Huff|url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/chris-noth-jeff-goldblum-law-order-article-1.298438|title=Chris Noth out, Jeff Goldblum in on 'Law & Order'|newspaper=New York Daily News|date=June 26, 2008|access-date=October 14, 2018}} In the 2005 rom-com film, The Perfect Man, Noth's portrayal of the romance expert from whom Hilary Duff's lead character models a secret admirer for her mother was described as "appealing in a thinly written role" by Variety.{{cite magazine |last1=Leydon |first1=Joe |title=The Perfect Man |url=https://variety.com/2005/film/markets-festivals/the-perfect-man-2-1200525096/|magazine=Variety |date=June 16, 2005}}{{cite news |last1=Vice |first1=Jeff |title=Film review: 'Perfect Man' has lots of flaws |url= https://www.deseret.com/2005/6/17/20090900/film-review-perfect-man-has-lots-of-flaws/|newspaper=Deseret News |date=June 17, 2005}}

In the CBS series The Good Wife (2009–2016), Noth portrayed Peter Florrick, disgraced and resurrected politician husband of the title character portrayed by Julianna Margulies.{{cite magazine |last=Kaplan |first=Barry Jay |date=Fall 2015 |title=Christopher Noth...on a role |url=https://issuu.com/yalerep/docs/ysd_annual_magazine_2015/32 |magazine=Yale School of Drama Annual Alumni Magazine 2015 |via=issuu |publisher=Yale School of Drama | pages=31–32 |volume=LVV |access-date=January 6, 2020}} Noth was not a full-time regular on the series, leaving him time to do plays and indie films.{{cite magazine |last1=Stanhope |first1=Kate |title='The Good Wife' Star on Peter and Alicia's Complicated Marriage and Possible Happy Ending |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/good-wife-chris-noth-interview-878379|magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |date=March 25, 2016}} In 2009, Noth guest-starred as an authoritarian military man in the film My One and Only starring Renée Zellweger as a woman searching for a spouse.{{cite magazine |last1=Felperin |first1=Lesie |title=My One and Only |url=https://variety.com/2009/film/markets-festivals/my-one-and-only-1200473667/|magazine=Variety |date=February 12, 2009}}{{cite news |last1=Oshinsky |first1=Matthew |title='My One and Only' movie review: Only the lonely, or in this case, George Hamilton |url=https://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/2009/08/my_one_and_only_movie_review_o.html |publisher=New Jersey Advance Media |date=August 20, 2009}}

In 2012, Noth narrated I Didn’t Do It, a six-part crime documentary series about wrongful convictions produced by Toronto's Lively Media for Discovery Canada and Investigation Discovery{{cite web |last1=Twiss |first1=Jordan |title=Chris Noth to lend voice to "I Didn't Do It" |url=https://realscreen.com/2012/05/29/chris-noth-to-lend-voice-to-i-didnt-do-it/ |website=realscreen.com |date=May 29, 2012}}

• {{cite web |title=Investigation Discovery Follows the Wrongly Convicted In I DIDN'T DO IT, Begin. 11/12|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwtv/article/-Investigation-Discovery-Follows-the-Wrongly-Convicted-In-I-DIDNT-DO-IT-Begin-1112-20121105 |publisher=Broadway.com |date=November 12, 2012}}
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and portrayed tycoon J. P. Morgan, who helped finance the Titanic, in the Encore channel miniseries Titanic: Blood and Steel.{{cite news |last1=Hinckley |first1=David |title=Chris Noth moves up a grade in tycoon land as J.P. Morgan in 'Titanic: Blood and Steel'|url= https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv-movies/chris-noth-plays-mr-big-p-morgan-article-1.1176039 |newspaper=New York Daily News|location=New York City |date=October 8, 2012}}{{cite magazine |last1=Nordyke |first1=Kimberly |title='Titanic: Blood and Steel' Preview: Chris Noth Dreams of Building a Boat That Will 'Outlive Us All' |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/titanic-blood-and-steel-chris-noth-encore-neve-campbell-375258 |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |date=October 1, 2012}} In 2013, he portrayed Anthony Romano, a financier of Deep Throat, in the film Lovelace.{{cite magazine |last1=Carlson |first1=Erin |title='Lovelace' Cast Adds Hank Azaria, Chris Noth and Bobby Cannavale |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lovelace-cast-hank-azaria-chris-noth-bobby-cannavale-275737 |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |date=December 20, 2011}}{{cite web |last1=Brook |first1=Tom |title=WATCH: Chris Noth: Britain 'Feels Like an Extension of America' These Days |url=http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2013/08/watch-chris-noth-britain-feels-like-an-extension-of-america-these-days |publisher=BBC America |date=2013}} In 2014, Noth played the son-in-law of an aging man, Fred, portrayed by Christopher Plummer in the film Elsa & Fred.{{cite news |last=Holden |first=Steve |title=Love, Not Young, but New and Invigorating |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/07/movies/elsa-fred-stars-shirley-maclaine-and-christopher-plummer.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=November 6, 2014}}{{cite magazine |last1=Chang |first1=Justin |title=Film Review: 'Elsa & Fred' |url=https://variety.com/2014/film/reviews/film-review-elsa-fred-1201349827/ |magazine=Variety |date=November 6, 2014}} In the 2015 film After the Ball, Noth played a head of a Montreal fashion company.{{cite news |last1=Keogh |first1=Tom |title='After the Ball': Updated Cinderella role fits actress |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/movies/after-the-ball-updated-cinderella-role-fits-actress/ |newspaper=Seattle Times |date=April 23, 2015}}{{cite magazine |last1=Scheck |first1=Frank |title='After the Ball': Film Review |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/ball-film-review-791413 |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |date=April 26, 2015}}

In 2016, Noth joined the third season of the FX/Fox 21 Television Studios produced series Tyrant in the regular role of U.S. General William Cogswell who offers military support to the interim president of a fictional Middle Eastern country that is trying to start a social democracy.{{cite magazine |last1=Goldberg |first1=Lesley |title='The Good Wife' Star Chris Noth Joins Cast of FX's 'Tyrant' |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/good-wife-star-chris-noth-875180|magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |date=March 14, 2016}}{{cite news |last1=Gay |first1=Verne |title='Tyrant' review: Season 3 gets more intrigue|url=https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/tyrant-review-season-3-gets-more-intrigue-1.11990271|newspaper=Newsday|location=New York City / Long Island |date=June 30, 2016}} A review of Noth's first Tyrant episode likened General Cogswell to his Peter Florrick character in The Good Wife. In an interview before the episode aired, Noth said he was "pretty much done with parts that resemble Mr. Big or Peter Florrick",{{cite web |last1=Small |first1=Heidi |title=Actor Chris Noth: Find out why he's bigger than ever |url=https://diaryofasocialgal.com/profile-going-lipton-with-iconic-actor-chris-noth/ |publisher=DiaryOfASocialGal.com |date=June 27, 2016}} he was turning to darker roles after years of playing (mostly) good guys on his three hit TV shows. Noth portrayed a sleazy lawyer in the 2016 film White Girl.{{cite news |last1=Holden |first1=Stephen |authorlink=Stephen Holden |title=Review: 'White Girl,' a Tale of Cocaine, Sex and Privilege |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/02/movies/white-girl-review.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 1, 2016}}{{cite magazine |last1=Ballard |first1=Jamie |title=Chris Noth Is Not Just the Guy You Know From TV |url= https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/news/a47765/chris-noth-interview-white-girl-tyrant/|magazine=Esquire |date=September 2, 2016}}{{cite magazine |last1=Belz Ray |first1=Leigh |title=Chris Noth on His Controversial Role in White Girl and Where He Thinks Mr. Big and Peter Florrick Are Now |url=https://www.instyle.com/reviews-coverage/movies/chris-noth-white-girl-mr-big/ |magazine=InStyle |date=September 26, 2016 |access-date=January 20, 2020 |archive-date=December 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201153850/https://www.instyle.com/reviews-coverage/movies/chris-noth-white-girl-mr-big |url-status=dead }} In the 2016 film Chronically Metropolitan Noth's portrayal of a philandering professor/novelist was praised by The Hollywood Reporter for "infusing his familiar-feeling character with intriguing nuances" and as "very good" by the Los Angeles Times.{{cite magazine |last1=Scheck |first1=Frank |title=Chronically Metropolitan: Film Review |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/chronically-metropolitan-1026451 |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |date=August 3, 2017}}{{cite news |last=Goldstein |first=Gary |title=Review: 'Chronically Metropolitan' is Consistently 'Meh' |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-mini-chronically-metropolitan-review-20170803-story.html |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=August 2, 2017}}

In 2017, Noth played FBI agent Don Ackerman on the Discovery Channel's series Manhunt: Unabomber, about the hunt for the serial killer Ted Kaczynski and was the narrator for the "Sharks and the City: New York" episode of Discovery channel's Shark Week.{{cite magazine |last1=Rich |first1=Katey |title=Chris Noth Goes From Shark Week to the Unabomber and Makes It Look Easy |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/07/chris-noth-manhunt-unabomber-shark-week |magazine=Vanity Fair |date=July 26, 2017}}{{cite news |last1=Anderson |first1=John |title='Manhunt: Unabomber' review: Poor writing but Sam Worthington is worth watching |url=https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/manhunt-unabomber-review-poor-writing-but-sam-worthington-is-worth-watching-1.13862838 |newspaper=Newsday |date=August 2, 2017}}{{cite news |last1=Newsome |first1=Brad |title=What's on TV: Tuesday, December 12 2017 |url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/whats-on-tv-tuesday-december-12-20171201-gzwfiq.html |newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|location=Australia| date=December 1, 2017}} Noth also portrayed FBI agent Frank Novak in Gone, a 12-episode procedural drama produced by NBC Universal.{{cite magazine |last1=Roxborough |first1=Scott |title=Chris Noth Procedural 'Gone' Gets First Series Order Under NBCU's European Drama Pact |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chris-noth-starrer-gone-gets-series-order-under-nbcunis-european-drama-pact-951359|magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |date=November 30, 2016}}{{cite magazine |last1=Matthews |first1=Liam |title=Some of Your Law & Order Favorites Are Teaming Up for a New Crime Drama |url=https://www.tvguide.com/news/gone-carter-wgn-america/|magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |date=June 12, 2018}}{{cite news |last1=Starr |first1=Michael |title=You probably won't miss 'Gone' if it suddenly goes missing |url=https://nypost.com/2019/02/25/you-probably-wont-miss-gone-if-it-suddenly-goes-missing/ |newspaper=New York Post |date=February 25, 2019}} The New York Post wrote in its review of the show that "Noth, who's always reliable, is fine here, but doesn’t have much to do other than set up each storyline and then bark lots of orders." In 2018, Noth played Jack Robertson in the Doctor Who episode "Arachnids in the UK" and returned to the show in 2021 New Year's Day special, "Revolution of the Daleks".{{cite web |title=Coming Soon, Series 11, Doctor Who |date=October 7, 2018 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06n75pt |publisher=BBC |access-date= October 7, 2018}}{{cite web |title=BBC One - Doctor Who, Series 11, Arachnids in the UK |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bqn236 |publisher=BBC |access-date=October 23, 2018}}Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211205/OEVWuYVUsBs Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20201129212905/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEVWuYVUsBs&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEVWuYVUsBs| title = Revolution of the Daleks: Release Date Trailer|author=Doctor Who | website=YouTube| date = November 29, 2020}}{{cbignore}}

In 2021, Noth played the lead role of William Bishop in CBS reboot crime drama series The Equalizer, which was written by Andrew W. Marlowe and Terri Edda Miller.{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2020/05/chris-noth-cast-queen-latifah-the-equalizer-reboot-cbs-1202929827/|title=Chris Noth Joins Queen Latifah In 'The Equalizer' CBS Series|last=Andreeva|first=Nellie|date=May 8, 2020|work=Deadline Hollywood|access-date=May 8, 2020}} The same year, Noth reprised his role as Mr. Big in And Just Like That..., the Sex and the City continuation, where he was killed off, leading to a subsequent Peloton advertisement in the role.{{cite web |last1=Carras |first1=Christi |title=Peloton really filmed that snarky Mr. Big 'And Just Like That' commercial in 48 hours |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2021-12-13/peloton-big-and-just-like-that-sex-and-the-city |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=December 21, 2021 |date=December 13, 2021}} By the end of the year, he was fired and the ad was pulled due to allegations of sexual assault.

Noth is co-owner of The Cutting Room, a New York lounge and music venue that opened in late 1999, with Steve Walter.{{Cite web|url=http://www.thecuttingroomnyc.com/aboutus.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090504115445/http://www.thecuttingroomnyc.com/aboutus.html|url-status=dead|title=About Us|website=The Cutting Room|archive-date=May 4, 2009}} He also co-owned the New York nightclub The Plumm with Noel Ashman and other investors including David Wells and Damon Dash.{{cite magazine|last=Maurer|first=Daniel|title=The Plumm|url=https://nymag.com/listings/bar/the-plumm|magazine=New York|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181114200736/http://nymag.com/listings/bar/the-plumm/|archive-date=November 14, 2018}} Noth became majority-stake owner of Ambhar Tequila in 2018.{{Cite magazine|url=https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/chris-noth-becomes-majority-stake-owner-of-ultra-premium-ambhar-tequila-1027532516|title=Chris Noth Becomes Majority Stake Owner of Ultra Premium Ambhar Tequila|magazine=Markets Insider|date=September 13, 2018}}

Noth had a relationship with model Beverly Johnson from 1990 to 1995. Johnson filed a restraining order against Noth, accusing him of physical, verbal, and racial abuse.{{cite news|last=Nolan|first=Emma|date=December 17, 2021|title=Chris Noth and Beverly Johnson Article Detailing Assault Allegations Resurfaces|work=Newsweek|url=https://www.newsweek.com/chris-noth-beverly-johnson-assault-allegations-1660438|access-date=December 21, 2021}}

He began a relationship with Tara Lynn Wilson, a Canadian model, actress, and former beauty queen{{cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/news/people/big-secrets/2008/05/27/1211653990622.html|title=Big Secrets|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=May 27, 2008|access-date=June 21, 2010}} after meeting her in 2001 or 2002.{{cite magazine |last1=Douglas |first1=Clare |title=Exclusive interview with Chris Noth: 'Sex and the City' is over |url=https://hellomagazine.com/celebrities/02015032014261/exclusive-interview-with-chris-noth-sex-and-the-city-is-over |magazine=Hello! |date=March 20, 2015 }}{{Dead link|date=October 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Their son Orion was born in January 2008.{{cite magazine|url=https://people.com/parents/chris-noth-his-girlfriend-have-a-boy/|title=Chris Noth & His Girlfriend Have a Boy|date=January 20, 2008 |magazine=People|access-date=February 19, 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/p/B7fCBcxJj9_/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/iarchive/instagram/chrisnothofficial/2224505636646174591 |archive-date=2021-12-23 |url-access=subscription|first=Chris|last=Noth|title=Happy Birthday Orion!!|date=January 18, 2020|access-date=February 19, 2020}}{{cbignore}} The couple became co-owners of the tea house Once Upon a Tea Cup in Windsor, Ontario,{{cite magazine |last1=Eckler |first1=Rebecca |title=Mr. Big has a little tea in Windsor|url= https://archive.macleans.ca/article/2008/6/16/mr-big-has-a-little-tea-in-windsor|magazine=Maclean's |date=June 16, 2008 |page=62 }} and another location in London, Ontario.{{cite magazine |last1=Caplan |first1=David |title=Chris Noth Is Engaged! |url=https://people.com/celebrity/chris-noth-is-engaged/ |magazine=People |date=October 4, 2009}} They were married on April 6, 2012.{{cite AV media |last1=Hawkins |first1=Lee |author-link=Lee Hawkins (journalist)|title=Actor Chris Noth Discusses His Interracial Marriage & Being a Sex Symbol|time=01:12 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRG56nD_uWs | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211118/RRG56nD_uWs| archive-date=November 18, 2021 | url-status=live|work=The Wall Street Journal |date=August 2, 2013 |via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} Onscreen caption: "Tara Lynn Wilson".{{cite news|url=https://people.com/celebrity/chris-noth-marries-tara-wilson/|magazine=People|title=Chris Noth Is Married|first1=Julie|last1=Jordan|first2=Marla|last2=Lehner|date=April 11, 2012|access-date=March 26, 2016}} Noth announced the birth of their second son Keats in February 2020.{{cite magazine |last1=Harmata |first1=Claudia |last2=Slater |first2=Georgia |title=Baby Makes Four! Chris Noth and Wife Tara Wilson Welcome Second Son Keats 'from the Heavens' |url=https://people.com/parents/chris-noth-welcomes-son-keats/|magazine=People |date=February 19, 2019}}

Noth moved with his family to the Los Angeles suburb of Sherman Oaks.{{cite web |last1=Bauernebel |first1=Herbert |title=Big in New York: 20 years of "Sex and the City" |url=https://www.ooom.com/digital/big-in-new-york-20-jahre-sex-and-the-city/2/ |website=OOOM Magazine |pages=2 |date=July 19, 2018}}{{cite magazine |last1=Halberg |first1=Morgan |title=Chris Noth Sheds West Hollywood Condo |url=https://variety.com/2017/dirt/real-estalker/chris-noth-west-hollywood-condo-1202518631/ |magazine=Variety |date=August 8, 2017}} He owns an apartment in Greenwich Village that he had since 1994 and another in a Lenox Hill co-op since 2017.{{cite news |last1=Halberg |first1=Morgan |title=Chris Noth Buys NYC Apartment on Upper East Side |url=https://observer.com/2017/07/chris-noth-apartment-upper-east-side/ |newspaper=The New York Observer |date=July 31, 2017}} The family has a summer house in the Berkshires on the edge of Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

On December 16, 2021, Noth was accused of sexual assault by two women, who used the names Lily and Zoe, with one woman alleging that Noth cheated on his wife when he assaulted her. Both women, who did not know each other, contacted The Hollywood Reporter months apart.{{Cite web|last=Masters|first=Kim|date=December 16, 2021|title=Chris Noth Accused of Sexual Assault by Two Women|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/chris-noth-accused-of-sexual-assault-1235063596/|access-date=January 9, 2022|website=The Hollywood Reporter|language=en-US}} The incidents allegedly occurred in Los Angeles in 2004, and in New York in 2015.{{cite news|last=Masters|first=Kim|author-link=Kim Masters|date=December 16, 2021|title=Chris Noth Accused of Sexual Assault by Two Women|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/chris-noth-accused-of-sexual-assault-1235063596/|url-status=live|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=December 25, 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20211216194740/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/chris-noth-accused-of-sexual-assault-1235063596/|archive-date=December 16, 2021}} He denied the allegations, claiming the incidents were consensual and that he did not cross the line of "no means no".{{Cite web|last=Roberto|first=Melissa|date=December 16, 2021|title='Sex and the City' star Chris Noth accused of sexual assault by two women|url=https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/sex-and-the-city-chris-noth-accused-sexual-assault-two-women|access-date=December 25, 2021|website=Fox News|language=en-US}}{{cite news|last=Horton|first=Adrian|date=December 16, 2021|title=Chris Noth accused of sexual assault by two women|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/dec/16/chris-noth-sexual-assault-accusations-women|work=The Guardian|access-date=December 25, 2021}} The next day, actress and screenwriter Zoe Lister-Jones alleged that Noth was "consistently sexually inappropriate" when she worked with him on a 2005 episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent, was "a sexual predator", and was drunk while filming his scenes.{{cite news|last1=Saad|first1=Nardine|date=December 17, 2021|title=Zoe Lister-Jones accuses Chris Noth of misconduct on 'Law & Order' set|url-status=live|work=The Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2021-12-17/zoe-lister-jones-chris-noth-allegations-law-order|access-date=December 25, 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20211217174525/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2021-12-17/zoe-lister-jones-chris-noth-allegations-law-order|archive-date=December 17, 2021}} Subsequently, he was dropped by A3 Artists Agency.{{cite web|title=Chris Noth Dropped by A3 Artists Agency Amid Assault Accusations|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/chris-noth-dropped-agency-assault-accusations-1235064904/|website=The Hollywood Reporter|last1=Gajewski|first1=Ryan|last2=Beresford|first2=Trilby|date=December 17, 2021|access-date=December 25, 2021}}

On December 18, 2021, another woman accused Noth of sexual assault, in New York in 2010, saying that when she was 18 he forcibly kissed her and removed her tights in an effort to digitally penetrate her.{{Cite news|last=Prudente|first=Maria|date=December 18, 2021|title=Third Woman Comes Forward: Chris Noth Sexually Assaulted Me|language=en|work=The Daily Beast|url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/third-woman-comes-forward-to-accuse-sex-and-the-city-star-chris-noth-of-sexual-assault|url-status=live|access-date=December 25, 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20211218010826/https://www.thedailybeast.com/third-woman-comes-forward-to-accuse-sex-and-the-city-star-chris-noth-of-sexual-assault|archive-date=December 18, 2021}} Noth's publicist denied the incident happened and said Noth did not know the woman. On December 23, 2021, singer-songwriter Lisa Gentile accused Noth of sexually assaulting her in New York in 2002. She said he forcibly kissed her and grabbed and squeezed her breasts.{{cite news|last=Helmore|first=Edward|date=December 23, 2021|title=Singer Lisa Gentile is fourth woman to accuse Chris Noth of sexual assault|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/dec/23/chris-noth-lisa-gentile-sexual-assault|url-status=live|work=The Guardian|access-date=December 25, 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20211225034003/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/dec/23/chris-noth-lisa-gentile-sexual-assault|archive-date=December 25, 2021}}

In the wake of the allegations, a $12 million deal for Entertainment Arts Research Inc. to buy Noth's tequila brand Ambhar was canceled,{{cite news |last1=Cordero |first1=Rosy |title=Chris Noth's Deal To Sell Tequila Brand Not Moving Forward Amid Sexual Assault Allegations |url=https://deadline.com/2021/12/chris-noth-tequila-brand-canceled-amid-sexual-assault-allegations-1234899444/ |access-date=December 20, 2021 |website=Deadline Hollywood|date=December 19, 2021}} a Peloton commercial starring Noth and Ryan Reynolds was pulled from the air, and he was dismissed partway through the second season of The Equalizer; his character, William Bishop, was killed off-screen.{{cite web |last=Madden Toby |first=Mekeisha |title=Chris Noth Out at The Equalizer, in Wake of Sexual Assault Allegations |url=https://tvline.com/2021/12/20/chris-noth-fired-the-equalizer-sexual-assault-bishop-leaving-last-episode/ |website=TVLine |access-date=December 20, 2021 |date=December 20, 2021}} A second appearance as Big in the season finale of And Just Like That... was also scrapped.{{cite web |last=Ausiello |first=Michael |title=And Just Like That...: Chris Noth's Big Season Finale Cameo Scrapped |url=https://tvline.com/2022/01/05/chris-noth-and-just-like-that-season-1-finale-big-carrie-paris/ |website=TVLine |access-date=January 5, 2022 |date=January 5, 2022}}

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