A native of L.A., Christopher Judge was born in 1967. He has one younger brother. Whilst he always wanted to be an actor (he started acting in Junior High), to begin with he was a successful athlete. Using his skills to the full, he got into the University of Oregon with a football scholarship. First of all he was in a pre-med curriculum, but he found out he couldn't do the maths. (Maths is scum!) Then he was a philosophy major for six months, then a psych major, before finally deciding on telecommunications and film with a psychology minor.
Success came in the athletic arena, where his real skill lay in baseball. His baseball coach wanted him to give up American Football, but (in his own words), "football players got all the chicks". Not that he was bad at American Football! He become an All-American three times and played in the Hula Bowl. Chris played as a defensive safety.
His first step into entertainment came when he won a contest to host a morning radio show in Oregon. But he got started in acting in his senior year, when Fox hosted some regional contests. It was their first year as a network, and they needed programming. After winning, he hosted an "MTV talk show type thing", used it to get an agent, and things went from there. In 1989 he started studying at the Howard Fine Studio in Los Angeles. His first acting role was in the 1990 film Bird on a Wire and from there he starred in numerous films and TV shows before landing the role of the Jaffa, Teal'c, in Stargate SG-1.
He's also been in TV movies such as Peter DeLuise's Romantic Comedy 101, big screen blockbusters like Disney's Snow Dogs and he's had a go at writing episodes of Stargate SG-1 ("The Changeling", "Birthright", and "Sacrifices"). He's guest starred in lots of Sci-fi shows, including Andromeda and First Wave. As well as acting in the conventional sense, he's the voice of Simon Gray in Action Man and Magneto in X-Men: Evolution.
During the middle of 2002 he set up a photography studio with his girlfriend Gianna. In his own words, "Photography is just something I've picked up again; I used to work for a number of modeling agencies in LA a few years back doing tests. My girlfriend and I have set up a studio and are working on it as a business (she is a makeup artist and model/actress). It's always good to have something to fall back on!".
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I've only seen Christopher Judge as T'ealc on Stargate SG-1 and I am not impressed. It must be hard to play an alien and I just don't think he does a good job at it. His performance is mediocre and seems like it's lacking. When he's surrounded by Richard Dean Anderson (in the earlier seasons) he's just can't compete. However, he doesn't do a bad job, it's just nothing special. He's pretty average and was lucky to land such a big role on such a huge Sci0fi show. I would like to see him in other roles and see how he does, because with the roles I've seen him in, I'm not impressed.
when i first seen chis judge on stargate sg1 as Teal'c i had a hard job remembraing his name but i knew he was an important part of the show. chris jude is the onlt actor on stargate sg1 to be in every single episode - thats over 205 episodes. i think he is a great actor because on the show he plays a very serious alien and in really live he's a funny guy i don't know how he does it without laughing.he is ,i think the most devoted actor on the show although micheal shanks seems to like it as much as the fans.later.
Stargate SG-1 has an amazing cast, with many very talented actors, but Christopher Judge still manages to shine out, even next to Richard Dean Anderson. He has likely the most difficult character, Teal'c, especially since Christopher Judge has ADHD (or ADD, I cant remember) and Teal'c is very stoic. But we know that he can play more than just stoic characters, since he did an amazing job as Jack in "Holiday" in which they switched bodies.
Christopher Judge is also talented having written the SG-1 episodes "Sacrifices", "Birthright", and "The Changeling", and created the story for the episode "The Warrior", which are all wonderful episodes, especially storywise.
I love Chris Judge and his completely relaed understated prefromance of Teal'c they could not have picked a better person for this role. Physical domanance, humor, Dead pan lines.. He is teal'c .. I think he is one of the best actors on Tv today.. and I love the charecter
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