Chris Messina

Q: Has Chris Messina won any awards?

While Chris Messina has not won an Academy Award, he has received nominations for various awards, including the Screen Actors Guild Award for his role in 'Argo'.

Q: What was Chris Messina's first film?

Chris Messina's first film role was in 'The Wedding Date' (2003), where he played a minor character, marking the beginning of his film career.

Q: What TV shows is Chris Messina known for?

Chris Messina is best known for his roles in television shows such as 'The Mindy Project' and 'Sharp Objects', where he received critical acclaim for his performances.

Q: What is Chris Messina's estimated net worth?

Chris Messina's estimated net worth is approximately $4 million, reflecting his successful career in acting over the years.

Q: Is Chris Messina involved in theater?

Yes, Chris Messina started his career in theater and has continued to participate in stage productions, showcasing his versatility as an actor.

Q: What genre does Chris Messina often work in?

Chris Messina often works in drama and comedy genres, demonstrating his range and ability to tackle complex characters and narratives.

Q: How many children does Chris Messina have?

Chris Messina has two children, though their names are not publicly known due to his preference for keeping his family life private.

Known for

Devil (2023)

2023 / Action, History / 144mins

A British secret agent takes up the job of solving a dark mystery. He is led into a web of love, deceit and betrayal....

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) poster

Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)

IMDb 6.1 / 10

2020 / Action, Crime / 108mins

Harley Quinn joins forces with a singer, an assassin and a police detective to help a young girl who had a hit placed on...

Argo (2012)

IMDb 7.7 / 10

2012 / Biography, Drama / 120 min

As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter...

Name

Chris Messina

Height

5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)

Born

11 August 1974, Northport, New York, USA

Spouses

Jennifer Messina (2005–2011)

Children

2 children (names not publicly known)

Parents

Mary Messina, John Messina

Estimated Net Worth

$4 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	Movie Pressure In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, and the fate of the free world hanging in the balance, General Dwight...	Irving Krick	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2024	Movie Juror #2 While serving as a juror in a high profile murder trial, family man Justin Kemp finds himself struggling with a...	Eric Resnick	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2024	Movie I.S.S. Tensions flare in the near future aboard the International Space Station as a conflict breaks out on Earth. U.S. and...	Gordon Barrett	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2023	Movie Dreamin' Wild The true story of the Emerson family and the tumult that followed the success of their self-recorded pop-funk album of...	Matt Sullivan	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2023	TV Based on a True Story The lives of a realtor, a plumber and a former tennis star unexpectedly collide, exposing America’s obsession with true crime,...	Nathan Bartlett	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2023	Movie The Boogeyman Still reeling from the tragic death of their mother, a teenage girl and her younger sister find themselves plagued by...	Will Harper	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2023	Movie Air Discover the game-changing partnership between a then undiscovered Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of...	David Falk	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2022	Movie Call Jane A married woman with an unwanted pregnancy lives in a time in America where she can't get a legal abortion...	Will	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2022	Movie The Aviary A twisted journey of two women’s desperate flee to escape the clutches of Skylight, an insidious cult. Lured in by...	Seth	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2022	TV Gaslit A modern take on the 1970s political Watergate scandal centering on untold stories and forgotten characters of the time.	Angelo Lano	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2021	Movie Love Is Love Is Love Three stories that explore love, commitment, and loyalty between couples and friends. "Two for Dinner" where a married couple temporarily...	Jack (segment "Two for Dinner")	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2021	Movie I Care a Lot A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her latest mark comes with...	Dean Ericson	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2020	Movie The Secrets We Keep In post-World War II America, a woman, rebuilding her life in the suburbs with her husband, kidnaps her neighbor and...	Lewis	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2020	Movie She Dies Tomorrow Amy is ravaged by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow, which sends her down a dizzying emotional...	Jason	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2020	Movie Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) Harley Quinn joins forces with a singer, an assassin and a police detective to help a young girl who had...	Victor Zsasz	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2019	Movie The True Adventures of Wolfboy Follows a young boy who runs away from home in the search of his estranged mother.	Denny	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2019	Movie Zeroville A young actor arrives in Hollywood in 1969 during a transitional time in the Industry.	Brian De Palma	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2018	Movie Too Long at the Fair Charlie and Val are best friends and owners of a fledgeling Princess party business in Los Angeles. After a mishap...	Lee	Not rated
2018	TV Sharp Objects Reporter Camille Preaker confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to investigate the murders...	Richard Willis	TMDB 7.8 / 10
2018	Movie Blame A drama teacher's taboo relationship with an unstable student strikes a nerve in her jealous classmate, sparking a vengeful chain...	Jeremy Woods	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2017	Movie The Sweet Life Kenny is an ice cream vendor in Chicago with a crisp white uniform and an apathetic heart. When he encounters...	Kenny	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2016	Movie Live by Night A group of Boston-bred gangsters set up shop in balmy Florida during the Prohibition era, facing off against the competition...	Dion Bartolo	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2016	Movie Ordinary World Perry is a happily married father of two living a comfortable but sedate life in the suburbs. On the occasion...	Jake	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2015	Movie Digging for Fire Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood...	Tango	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2015	TV OM CITY OM CITY is the critically acclaimed, award-winning original series that follows the harried life of Grace (Jessie Barr), a yoga...	Joseph	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2015	Movie Manglehorn AJ Manglehorn is an aging, ordinary guy in a small town. He nurses his sick cat, squeezes out a conversation...	Jacob	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2015	Movie Alex of Venice After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of...	George	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2015	TV The Late Late Show with James Corden Once Craig Ferguson retires, James Corden will be taking over The Late Late Show. The show is a late night...	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2014	Movie The Oven A young couple get into a fight before a very important party. Little do they know an outsider has tuned...	Narrator	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2014	Movie Cake After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic...	Jason Bennett	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2014	Movie Palo Alto A lack of parental guidance encourages teens in an affluent California town to rebel with substance abuse and casual sex.	Mitch	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2014	Movie Showing Up An unprecedented look at the audition, compiled from more than 50 interviews with notable artists including Kristin Chenoweth, Richard Griffiths,...	Self	TMDB 9.2 / 10
2014	TV Off Camera with Sam Jones Photographer and director Sam Jones sits down with the myriad professionals of television and movies, and other celebrities (great skateboarders,...	Self	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2013	Movie Fairhaven Long-time friends reconnect when one returns to their small Massachusetts town for a funeral.	Dave	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2012	Movie Argo As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans...	Malinov	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2012	TV The Mindy Project Obstetrician/gynecologist Mindy Lahiri tries to balance her personal and professional life, surrounded by quirky co-workers in a small medical practice...	Dr. Danny Castellano	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2012	Movie Celeste & Jesse Forever Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each...	Paul	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2012	Movie Ruby Sparks Calvin is a young novelist who achieved phenomenal success early in his career but is now struggling with his writing...	Harry	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2012	Movie Denise A girl helps a guy untangle his web of lies.	Brad	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2012	TV The Newsroom A behind-the-scenes look at the people who make a nightly cable-news program. Focusing on a network anchor, his new executive producer,...	Reese Lansing	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2012	Movie The Giant Mechanical Man An offbeat romantic comedy about a silver-painted street performer and the soft spoken zoo worker who falls for him.	Tim	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2012	Movie 28 Hotel Rooms While traveling for work in a city far from their homes, a novelist and a corporate accountant find themselves in...	Man	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2011	Movie Like Crazy A British college student falls for an American student, only to be separated from him when she's banned from the...	Mike Appletree	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2011	Movie The Trouble with Bliss 35-year-old Morris Bliss is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia: he wants to travel but has no...	NJ	TMDB 4.8 / 10
2010	Movie An Invisible Sign Mona Gray is a 20-year-old loner who, as a child, turned to math for salvation after her father became ill....	Ben Smith	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2010	Movie Devil A group of people are trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, and one of them is the devil.	Detective Bowden	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2010	Movie Monogamy Exhibitionism, voyeurism, jealousy, lust. Brooklyn wedding photographer Theo’s side business shooting surveillance-style photos of clients on the sly takes an...	Theo	TMDB 4.2 / 10
2010	Movie Greenberg Roger Greenberg, a failed musician now making a living as a carpenter in New York, returns to Los Angeles to...	Phillip Greenberg	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2009	Movie Brief Interviews with Hideous Men After her boyfriend mysteriously leaves her with little explanation, a doctoral candidate in anthropology at a prestigious East Coast university...	Subject #19	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2009	Movie Julie & Julia Julia Child and Julie Powell – both of whom wrote memoirs – find their lives intertwined. Though separated by time...	Eric Powell	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2009	Movie Away We Go Verona and Burt have moved to Colorado to be close to Burt's parents but, with Verona expecting their first child,...	Tom	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2009	Movie Anatomy of Hope Medical drama based on the lives of cancer patients. Based on Jerome Groopman's "The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail...	Dr. Gary Caplan	TMDB 1.0 / 10
2008	Movie Humboldt County Peter is a medical student about to graduate and begin his residency. When his professor fails him, he winds up...	Max	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2008	Movie Towelhead A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist, and her strict father during the Gulf...	Barry	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2008	Movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamored with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom...	Doug	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2008	Movie Made of Honor Tom and Hannah have been platonic friends for 10 years. He's a serial dater, while she wants marriage but hasn't...	Dennis	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2007	TV Damages Damages is an American legal thriller television series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers...	Chris Sanchez	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2007	Movie Security An immigration agent at Newark International Airport confronts an Iranian mother and her son. Based on the one act play...	Zelly	Not rated
2006	Movie Ira & Abby A neurotic, young psychology student, with low self-esteem, has a chance encounter with a free-spirited, extremely gregarious woman who works...	Ira Black	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2005	TV Made in Hollywood Made in Hollywood is a talk show hosted by Kylie Erica Mar and Julie L. Harkness airing in syndication since...	Self	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2005	Movie Road Two exes take a dual-purpose road trip: allow Margaret (Catherine Kellner), a freelance photographer, to complete her assignment to check...	Larry	TMDB 4.5 / 10
2005	TV Medium Allison Dubois works in the District Attorney’s office using her natural intuition about people and her ability to communicate with...	Casey Edward Frank	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2001	TV Six Feet Under When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral...	Ted Fairwell	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2000	Movie Turn It Up Trying to bootstrap his way out of Brooklyn's mean streets is Diamond, a rap musician. With his long-time pal Gage...	Baz	TMDB 4.8 / 10
1999	TV Third Watch The exploits of a group of men and women who serve the City of New York as police officers, firemen,...	Charlie	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1998	Movie You've Got Mail Book superstore magnate Joe Fox and independent book shop owner Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the...	Fox Salesperson	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1998	Movie The Siege The secret US abduction of a suspected terrorist from his Middle East homeland leads to a wave of terrorist attacks...	Corporal	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1998	Movie Rounders Poker addict Mike McDermott knows the game inside out, but loses his money one night in a game to Russian-American...	Higgins	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1997	TV The View ABC Daytime's morning chatfest, currently featuring Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin, and Ana Navarro...	Self	TMDB 4.4 / 10
1990	TV Law & Order In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects...	Tommy Bell	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1990	TV Law & Order In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects...	Don Cushman	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1990	TV Law & Order In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects...	Kevin Turner	TMDB 7.3 / 10
TBA	Movie Lear Rex An aging king splits up his kingdom for his three daughters to govern, but is misled about their affections and...	Cornwall	Not rated
TBA	Movie Hellhound When a zombie outbreak hits small-town New York, a washed-up veterinarian must team up with his ex-wife and her new...	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie Tumor When the daughter of a wealthy politico goes missing, low-level Los Angeles PI Frank Armstrong embarks on a mission into...	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie We're Just Married A suburban wife ends her marriage after having an affair with her neighbor.	Unknown character	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2019	Movie Light of My Life Parent and child journey through the outskirts of society a decade after a pandemic has wiped out half the world's...	Thanks Crew	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2015	Movie Alex of Venice After her stay-at-home husband leaves her, a workaholic lawyer finds that she is not completely up to the tasks of...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2013	Movie Fairhaven Long-time friends reconnect when one returns to their small Massachusetts town for a funeral.	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2012	Movie 28 Hotel Rooms While traveling for work in a city far from their homes, a novelist and a corporate accountant find themselves in...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 5.5 / 10

Pressure

2026 / TMDB 7.6

Juror #2

2024 / TMDB 6.9

I.S.S.

2024 / TMDB 5.7

Dreamin' Wild

2023 / TMDB 6.1

The Boogeyman

2023 / TMDB 6.4

Air

2023 / TMDB 7.3

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Got a question about Chris Messina?

What are Chris Messina's most successful films?

Chris Messina has starred in several successful films, including 'Argo', which won the Academy Award for Best Picture, and 'Julie & Julia', where he played a supporting role alongside Meryl Streep.

Has Chris Messina won any awards?

What was Chris Messina's first film?

What TV shows is Chris Messina known for?

What is Chris Messina's estimated net worth?

Is Chris Messina involved in theater?

What genre does Chris Messina often work in?

How many children does Chris Messina have?