Chris Bauer

Chris Bauer is one of those actors who makes every scene better without you even realizing it — the kind of guy who spent years doing serious stage work, including Broadway in A Streetcar Named Desire, before TV audiences caught on. His run as Frank Sobotka in The Wire is quietly one of the great tragic performances of that whole legendary series; he played a union man watching his world dissolve and you felt every bit of it. Then he pivoted to the genuinely unhinged Andy Bellefleur in True Blood, somehow making a bumbling, bigoted small-town cop oddly lovable. The Deuce showed yet another gear. He's been around forever, done Mamet on stage, and still feels underrated — which honestly makes him more interesting to watch.

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Name (English)

Chris Bauer

Name (Japanese)

クリス・バウアー

Reading

くりす・ばうあー

Born

October 28, 1966 (age 59)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Horse

Origin

Los Angeles, California, United States

Occupation

actor / film actor / television actor

High school

Miramonte High School

University

University of San Diego

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Bauer
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q39979

Tags

• California
• actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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