 christopher paul backus (born october 30, 1981) is an american actor, director and screenwriter. ==overview== backus made his television debut in nbc's will & grace, followed by landing roles in prominent television shows like the o.c., along with abcâs life on mars, fx's hit series it's always sunny in philadelphia, nbc's the mentalist and tnt's perception and nbc's two-part miniseries the last templar. backus also appeared in films such as redline starring eddie griffin, and 3 days gone directed by scott mccullough. most recently he has starred in hard breakers, ezna sands' theo, nancy savoca's union square, yellow rock, elevator written by marc rosenberg, and most recently played marlene dietrich in the indie film my fair lidy. christopher married actress mira sorvino on july 2, 2004, in capri, italy. they have four children together: mattea, johnny, holden and lucia. ==career== backus and a friend, rob mcelhenney, moved from new york city to los angeles during pilot season of 2003. shortly after arriving he landed his first role in benjamin splits. after landing supporting roles in nbc's hit show will & grace and the wb's the o.c., he starred opposite dominique swain in nick vallelonga's all in. he returned to television in malik bader's huge in which he portrayed a struggling frontman of an indie rock band. he starred in 3 days gone along with patrick j. adams, nothing personal with paz de la huerta, and elevator with john getz and anita briem. backus returned to television to play the leader of the weather underground in abc's period drama life on mars, then he reteamed with director nick vallelonga on a western with michael biehn and james russo, yellow rock. in 2011, the feature film union square, co-written and directed by the sundance film festival's grand jury award winner, nancy savoca, was premiered at the toronto film festival. in it, backus appears alongside his wife mira sorvino, patti lupone, tammy blanchard, mike doyle, and michael rispoli. in summer 2011 backus took on the challenging role of portraying film icon marlene dietrich in my f
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