Cast
Chris Parnell
Acting
Cast
Chris Parnell
Known for
Acting
Born
1967-02-05
From
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Also known as 크리스 파넬, Thomas Christopher Parnell, کریس پارنل
Biography
Thomas Christopher "Chris" Parnell (born February 5, 1967) is an American comic actor best known as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1998–2006 and currently for his recurring role as Dr. Leo Spaceman on NBC's Emmy Award-winning comedy series 30 Rock. Parnell is currently one of the lead voices on the FX animated comedy Archer. In 2010, Parnell starred alongside his former SNL castmate Horatio Sanz in the Comedy Central series Big Lake. After performing as a company player with The Groundlings for a number of years, Parnell was hired to join the cast of Saturday Night Live as a featured player on September 26, 1998, and was promoted to repertory player the following season. In the summer of 2001, budget cuts and hiring four new cast members required Lorne Michaels to dismiss two cast members; he chose to lay off Parnell and Jerry Minor over Horatio Sanz, Rachel Dratch, and Maya Rudolph. While on SNL, Parnell appeared in numerous sketches, and commercial parodies, and performed memorable impressions of various celebrities. One of his most popular sketches is Lazy Sunday, a rap video he shot with Andy Samberg about buying cupcakes and going to see The Chronicles of Narnia. He has also performed raps about hosts Jennifer Garner, Britney Spears, Kirsten Dunst and Ashton Kutcher. In the summer of 2006, Lorne Michaels announced that four cast members would be fired due to budget cuts, but he did not say who. On September 22, 2006 it was announced that three cast members had been fired: Parnell, Horatio Sanz, and Finesse Mitchell. This effectively made him the only SNL performer to have been fired twice by Lorne Michaels, though Parnell did say in a 2008 interview with The Sound of Young America podcast that he was okay with being let go this time, because he was considering leaving after that season anyway, but added that he probably would have stayed one last season if he was asked back. He had been with SNL for eight seasons; at the time only four people (Darrell Hammond, Tim Meadows, Kevin Nealon, and Al Franken) have been cast members longer. He has since made uncredited cameo appearances on the show, most recently in 2008 parodying newscasters Tom Brokaw, Jim Lehrer, and Bob Schieffer. Parnell and his former SNL castmate Horatio Sanz recently starred together in Big Lake, a 2010 sitcom on Comedy Central from executive producers Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. He also recently appeared as Dr. Drummer/Santa in the SyFy Holiday Special episode from the television show Eureka, which aired on December 7, 2010 (Season 4 Episode 10).
Hotel Transylvania
as Mr. Fly (voice)
The Dictator
as News Anchor
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
as Stan / Fish Man (voice)
Hotel Transylvania 2
as Fly (voice)
Turbo
as Announcer #2 (voice)
21 Jump Street
as Mr. Gordon
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
as Garth Holliday
Home Sweet Home Alone
as Uncle Stu
Jingle All the Way
as Toy Store Sales Clerk
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
as Walter
Battle of the Sexes
as DJ
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
as Garth Holliday
Hot Rod
as Barry Pasternack
Life of the Party
as Mr. Truzack (Wayne)
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
as Dave Bollinari (voice)
Stop! That! Train!
as Conductor Davenport
Escape from Planet Earth
as Hammer (voice)
The Ridiculous 6
as Bank Manager
Finding ʻOhana
as Brown
Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again
as Washington (voice)
Barely Legal
as Mr. Ronald Greitzer
Senior Year
as Jim Conway
Sisters
as Phil
The Laundromat
as Doomed Gringo #2
Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie
as Garth Holliday
The Five-Year Engagement
as Bill
Lorne
as Narrator
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler
as Edward Turlington (archive footage)
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
as Theo
The Grand
as Harold Melvin
Elena and the Secret of Avalor
as Migs (voice)
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
as Self
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
as Self (archive footage)
Paper Man
as Peter
Down with Love
as TV Emcee
Our Little Secret
as Veterinarian
Slice
as Mayor Tracy
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend
as Junior
Eavesdrop
as Terrence
Mimics
as Jack Conrad
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell
as Self / Various (archive footage)
Labor Pains
as Jerry Steinwald
The Ladies Man
as Phil Swanson
WordGirl: The Rise of Miss Power
Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special
as Dr. Vince Harbert
The Women of SNL
as Various (archive footage)
A Loud House Christmas Movie: Naughty or Nice
as Gerald (voice)
Kabluey
as Frank
The Dink
Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice
as Mr. Thistleton (voice)
Ira & Abby
as Dr. Ronald Silverberg
Harold
as Coach Vanderpool
Break Point
as Jay LaRoche
Hollywood & Wine
as Peter West
The Last Laugh
as Charlie Green
I'm Reed Fish
as Ralph
I Am Woman
as Artie Mogull
Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again
as Self
Elena of Avalor: Realm of the Jaquins
as Migs (voice)
Evil Alien Conquerors
as Du-ug
Hot Mess Holiday
as Mike
Austin Found
as Alan Dickinson
As We Know It
as Ted Sommers
The Maya Rudolph Show
as Self
Harry and the Mutant Mid-Century Furniture
Micro Budget
as Toby
Kung Fu Magoo
as Cole Fusion / Ninja (voice)
The Better Half
as Daniel
The Dogfather
as Brian Franks
Answer This!
as Brian Collins
Sunny and Share Love You
as Kevin Keith Baker
Looking for Kitty
as Guy Borne
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Commercial Parodies
In Fidelity
as Lyle Ayker
Jeff Dunham: Unhinged in Hollywood
as Self
The Religetables
Wake
Farm Sluts
as Larry
Millennial Hunter
as John (voice)
AJ's Infinite Summer
as Dad (voice)
A Freezerburnt Christmas
Yung Punx: A Punk Parable
as therapist (voice)