Christopher Marquette (born Christopher George RodrÃguez on October 3, 1984) is an American film and television actor.
Marquette was born in Stuart, Florida to Jorge Luis Rodriguez and Patricia Helen Market. He has an iguana named Wicket and a Persian cat named "Patches." Chris has two younger brothers, actors Eric Marquette and Sean Marquette. He supports charities such as the Sunshine Foundation (to grant wishes of seriously ill, handicapped and abused children), Pediatric AIDS and the Children's AIDS Fund.
In 2004, he starred alongside young actors Emile Hirsch and Elisha Cuthbert in the coming-of-age teen comedy The Girl Next Door. The film also featured actors Timothy Olyphant and James Remar. The same year, he became a series regular on the hit CBS show Joan of Arcadia opposite Amber Tamblyn and Jason Ritter (with whom Marquette co-starred with in the 2003 slasher film Freddy vs. Jason before Joan of Arcadia's cancellation in early 2005).
Marquette was also given a supporting role in Just Friends with Ryan Reynolds, Amy Smart, Anna Faris and Chris Klein. In Alpha Dog, which hit the US theaters on January 12, 2007, Chris can be seen as Keith Stratten alongside Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake and Ben Foster. The Invisible, a remake of a Swedish film, starring Marcia Gay Harden and Justin Chatwin, was released on April 27, 2007, in which Christopher plays the best friend of main character Nick Powell. He has also had supporting/minor roles in the films 61* with Barry Pepper and Thomas Jane, and the Disney Channel original TV movie Up, Up and Away! with Robert Townsend.
Among Marquette's latest upcoming movies is Calvin Marshall, in which he was cast as lead, playing Calvin Marshall, an aspiring young baseball player. Unfortunately, shooting of the movie has been postponed until further notice. He already lined up his next role as obsessed Star Wars fan Linus Poonwah in the movie Fanboys which was shot in spring 2006 in New Mexico and also stars Sam Huntington and Veronica Mars' Kristen Bell. One of his latest upcoming acting projects is an independent movie called The Education of Charlie Banks, which is being directed by Limp Bizkit's Fred Durst. Whether on purpose or not, Chris frequently appears in movies with a group of actors including Emile Hirsch, Paul Dano, Amanda Seyfried and Nikki Reed. His latest project is Infestation, an action comedy by Kyle Rankin, that is currently being shot in Bulgaria, in which Chris plays the lead role--a young man named Cooper who has to fight for survival against giant alien insects that have taken over the world.
Not only has he been on the big screen a fair bit, Marquette can also been seen as a guest star or regular on several TV shows, such as Strong Medicine, ER, Touched By An Angel, 7th Heaven, Miracles, Boston Public and Judging Amy. The latest guest roles include the Showtime TV series Huff; Christopher played James, a friend of Byrd's (Anton Yelchin, whom he also played alongside in Alpha Dog), in episodes Sweet Release, Bethless and Tapping The Squid (all aired 2006).
