Chris Massoglia

Christopher Paul Massoglia (born March 29, 1992) is an American television and motion picture actor, and a city council member for Blaine, Minnesota. Early life Chris Massoglia was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Christopher and Karen Massoglia. His father is a chiropractor and his mother a homemaker. His parents are devout Christians and Republicans, and Massoglia grew up a fan of Christian pop music (as well as unable to listen to rap music). Massoglia was homeschooled by his mother. By the age of 13, he had enrolled in an online university where his coursework included developmental psychology, Biblical studies, algebra, and American history. He also had studied jujitsu, played piano, trained as a hip-hop dancer, knew American sign language, and rode horses. He was also a stand-out Little League Baseball player. Acting career Massoglia began attending acting workshops at a dancing academy, Lundstrum Performing Arts, in his home town of Minneapolis while in middle school, and auditioning for television commercials by creating home-made audition tapes. His first jobs included commercials for Target, Marshall Field's, PepsiCo and Best Buy. He began acting in 2003 under the name "Chris Kelly" (sometimes as "Chris J. Kelly") in an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. The same year, he was considered for the part of 10 year old Sean in the Nicole Kidman film Birth, but his family refused to allow him to appear naked on screen with a nude, grown woman. He auditioned for Spider-Man 2 (getting far enough in the casting process to spend an afternoon with Tobey Maguire) and Bad News Bears (he returned six times for call-backs but was not cast). He spent summer 2004 away from auditions to play Little League Baseball; his team (the Robbinsdale All-Stars) won the Minnesota state title that year but did not go to the World Series after losing the Indianapolis regionals. He appeared in two episodes of Medical Investigation in 2004, and four episodes of the TNT cable television police drama Wanted in 2005. He began using his family name of Massoglia in 2008.