CHRISTOPHER THORNTON: The Actor Who Stayed
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Christopher Thornton — actor, writer, teacher, and one of the most quietly extraordinary storytellers working in Hollywood today.
His journey is not a straight line. It is a rock climbing accident that fractured two vertebrae and left him in a wheelchair — and an agency that dropped him in a signed card from his hospital bed. It is a then-unknown Mark Ruffalo tricking him into performing Waiting for Godot five months later — and the Drama-Logue Award that changed everything.
It is understudying the lead at the Mark Taper Forum with zero rehearsals and going on for a matinee AND an evening performance the same day. It is writing Sympathy for Delicious in 1997 and not shooting it until 2009. It is a Magnum P.I. surfboard scene he absolutely claimed he could handle. And it is thirty years of showing up — to the stage, to the room, to the tape, to the work — until Vice Principals, Magnum P.I., Lincoln Lawyer, and now The Pitt and Netflix's All the Sinners Bleed made the industry take notice.
These are the unforgettable stories that landed Christopher Thornton right here.
Credits:- The Pitt
- Magnum P.I.
- Vice Principals
- Lincoln Lawyer
- All the Sinners Bleed
- Sympathy for Delicious
- Waiting for Godot
- Alias
- Will & Grace
- IMDB: Christopher Thornton, actor, writer
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