Chris Wood

Chris Wood is one of those actors who sneaks up on you — you tune into The Vampire Diaries expecting another brooding love interest, and instead you get Kai Parker, a genuine scene-stealing psychopath with comic timing sharp enough to cut glass. His season-six run on that show is legitimately one of the most entertaining villain arcs the CW ever produced, and it launched him from relative unknown to someone fans genuinely couldn't stop talking about. He followed that up with a lead role in Containment and later joined Supergirl, proving he's comfortable carrying a show rather than just stealing scenes in one. A Dublin, Ohio kid who studied at Elon University — not the most obvious pipeline to genre television stardom, but the stage training clearly stuck. He doesn't get nearly enough credit for his range, and I'd genuinely love to see him handed something with more dramatic weight.

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Name (English)

Chris Wood

Name (Japanese)

クリス・ウッド

Reading

くりす・うっど

Born

April 14, 1988 (age 38)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Dragon

Origin

Dublin, Ohio, United States

Occupation

actor / film actor / television actor / stage actor

High school

Dublin Jerome High School

University

Elon University

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Wood%20(actor)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A6%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%20(%E4%BF%B3%E5%84%AA)
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Tags

• Ohio
• actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-02

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