ACTOR BIO

Chris Kattan is best known for his many characters on Saturday Night Live, which he joined in March 1996, completing his seventh and final season in 2003. With numerous upcoming projects, he can next be seen in the Independent Film Channel’s three-part miniseries, Bollywood Hero, in which he plays himself in an otherwise fictional comedy.

Most recently Kattan wrapped production for The Last film Festival, a comedy in which he stars opposite Leelee Sobieski, Jaqueline Bisset and Dennis Hopper. He can also be seen in Scouts Honor, Hollywood Wine, with David Spade, Norm MacDonald, Horatio Sanz and Chazz Palminteri, as well as in Tanner Hall and Undead or Alive, opposite James Denton. He provided the voice for the character Polar Penguin in the animated film Foodfight!, which also featured the voices of Eva Longoria, Charlie Sheen and Hilary Duff, starred in the Christmas special The Year Without Santa Clause, opposite John Goodman and Ethan Suplee, and the VH-1 movie Totally Awesome, opposite Tracy Morgan and Dominique Swain.

Kattan received rave reviews for his performance in the independent romantic comedy Adam and Steve, opposite Parker Posey, which debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival. Other big-screen credits include Universal’s Undercover Brother, Disney’s Corky Romano, the script of which was based on a character Kattan developed, and A Night at the Roxbury, written by Kattan and Will Ferrell and produced by Lorne Michaels and Amy Heckerling. Kattan was also seen opposite Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda in Monkey Bone, and in The House on Haunted Hill, opposite Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Ali Larter and Taye Diggs and produced by Joel Silver and Robert Zemeckis.