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).
★5.1
MOVIE2026
Stop! That! Train!
as Conductor Davenport
★7.0
MOVIE2012
Hotel Transylvania
as Mr. Fly (voice)
★6.2
MOVIE2012
The Dictator
as News Anchor
★6.8
MOVIE2018
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation
as Stan / Fish Man (voice)
★6.9
MOVIE2012
21 Jump Street
as Mr. Gordon
★6.8
MOVIE2015
Hotel Transylvania 2
as Fly (voice)
★6.3
MOVIE2013
Turbo
as Announcer #2 (voice)
★4.8
MOVIE2021
Home Sweet Home Alone
as Uncle Stu
★6.8
MOVIE2026
Lorne
as Narrator
★6.1
MOVIE2018
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
as Walter
★6.1
MOVIE1996
Jingle All the Way
as Toy Store Sales Clerk
★7.0
MOVIE2022
Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers
as Dave Bollinari (voice)
★6.1
MOVIE2013
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
as Garth Holliday
★6.7
MOVIE2004
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
as Garth Holliday
★5.8
MOVIE2013
Escape from Planet Earth
as Hammer (voice)
★5.8
MOVIE2012
The Five-Year Engagement
as Bill
★6.4
MOVIE2007
Hot Rod
as Barry Pasternack
★5.2
MOVIE2015
The Ridiculous 6
as Bank Manager
MOVIE2026
The Dink
★6.8
MOVIE2017
Battle of the Sexes
as DJ
★6.1
MOVIE2003
Down with Love
as TV Emcee
★6.3
MOVIE2022
Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again
as Washington (voice)
★6.0
MOVIE2015
Sisters
as Phil
★6.6
MOVIE2007
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
as Theo
★5.9
MOVIE2022
Senior Year
as Jim Conway
★6.0
MOVIE2019
The Laundromat
as Doomed Gringo #2
★6.0
MOVIE2003
Barely Legal
as Mr. Ronald Greitzer
★6.1
MOVIE2018
Life of the Party
as Mr. Truzack (Wayne)
★7.2
MOVIE2025
A Loud House Christmas Movie: Naughty or Nice
as Gerald (voice)
★6.2
MOVIE2024
Our Little Secret
as Veterinarian
★6.2
MOVIE2021
Finding ʻOhana
as Brown
★5.4
MOVIE2009
Labor Pains
as Jerry Steinwald
★7.3
MOVIE2016
Elena and the Secret of Avalor
as Migs (voice)
★6.3
MOVIE2009
Paper Man
as Peter
★7.0
MOVIE2011
Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice
as Mr. Thistleton (voice)
★6.0
MOVIE2026
Mimics
as Jack Conrad
★5.6
MOVIE2008
Harold
as Coach Vanderpool
MOVIE2012
WordGirl: The Rise of Miss Power
★4.9
MOVIE2010
Kung Fu Magoo
as Cole Fusion / Ninja (voice)
★7.8
MOVIE2025
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
as Self (archive footage)
★6.0
MOVIE2004
Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie
as Garth Holliday
★6.1
MOVIE2007
Kabluey
as Frank
★5.4
MOVIE2000
The Ladies Man
as Phil Swanson
MOVIETBA
Wake
★5.0
MOVIE2014
The Maya Rudolph Show
as Self
★4.3
MOVIE2011
Answer This!
as Brian Collins
★5.8
MOVIE2007
The Grand
as Harold Melvin
★5.2
MOVIE2010
The Women of SNL
as Various (archive footage)
MOVIETBA
Crohnie
★5.6
MOVIE2003
Evil Alien Conquerors
as Du-ug
★6.4
MOVIE2020
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend
as Junior
★6.7
MOVIE2014
AJ's Infinite Summer
as Dad (voice)
★5.5
MOVIE2017
Austin Found
as Alan Dickinson
MOVIE2026
Micro Budget
as Toby
★6.4
MOVIE2025
SNL50: The Homecoming Concert
as Self
★5.6
MOVIE2007
I'm Reed Fish
as Ralph
★5.4
MOVIE2019
The Last Laugh
as Charlie Green
★6.0
MOVIE2017
Michael Bolton's Big, Sexy Valentine's Day Special
as Dr. Vince Harbert
★5.6
MOVIE2006
Ira & Abby
as Dr. Ronald Silverberg
★4.6
MOVIE2008
Eavesdrop
as Terrence
★4.4
MOVIE2003
Farm Sluts
as Larry
★6.2
MOVIE2020
I Am Woman
as Artie Mogull
★5.8
MOVIE2014
Break Point
as Jay LaRoche
★2.8
MOVIE2015
The Better Half
as Daniel
★4.8
MOVIE2004
Looking for Kitty
as Guy Borne
MOVIE2010
Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time and Again
as Self
★7.8
MOVIE2002
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Will Ferrell
as Self / Various (archive footage)
★6.0
MOVIE2021
Hot Mess Holiday
as Mike
★3.4
MOVIE2011
Hollywood & Wine
as Peter West
★7.7
MOVIE2009
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Amy Poehler
as Edward Turlington (archive footage)
MOVIE2002
The Religetables
★3.2
MOVIE2010
The Dogfather
as Brian Franks
★5.2
MOVIE2024
In Fidelity
as Lyle Ayker
★9.0
MOVIE1986
Shadows on the Wall
as Charlie
MOVIE2007
Sunny and Share Love You
as Kevin Keith Baker
MOVIETBA
Harry and the Mutant Mid-Century Furniture
★4.5
MOVIE2018
Slice
as Mayor Tracy
★6.8
MOVIE2006
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Commercial Parodies
★6.4
MOVIE2015
Jeff Dunham: Unhinged in Hollywood
as Self
MOVIE2002
A Freezerburnt Christmas
★6.4
MOVIE2023
As We Know It
as Ted Sommers
MOVIE2021
Yung Punx: A Punk Parable
as therapist (voice)
★4.8
MOVIE2023
Millennial Hunter
as John (voice)
MOVIE2017
Elena of Avalor: Realm of the Jaquins
as Migs (voice)