Early life

Christopher Judge was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He has one younger brother, Jeff Judge, also an actor. Christopher Judge harbored the desire to become an actor from an early age, and studied drama in high school. "The television set was my babysitter growing up. I can remember wanting to invoke the feelings that I was getting from television—I wanted to be the one who was the catalyst for those feelings in other people. Performing was something I've always known I was going to do." He always knew that sports would be a stepping stone to an acting career. Judge was an All-L.A. City football player at Carson High School and graduated from Carson in 1982. He played for legendary Coach Gene Vollnogle.

Judge received a scholarship from the University of Oregon and played defensive back and safety for the Ducks from 1982 to 1985. He led in kickoff return yardage for 1983-84 and interceptions in 1984, and earned the Casanova Award in 1982, given to the freshman or newcomer of the year. While at Oregon, Judge was a three time All-American, a Pacific-10 Conference Selection in 1984 and played in the 1985 Hula Bowl.

Judge initially considered the pre-med track, in case his acting aspirations were not realized, but he found he had trouble with the required math, and changed his major, first to psychology, and then to telecommunications and film with a minor in psychology.

Judge won a contest to host a radio show in Oregon, and in his senior year he won a regional contest to host the West Coast FOX KLSR Morning Show, an "MTV talk show type thing"; he used this experience to get an agent and move to Los Angeles.

Career

Acting

In 1989 Judge began studying at the Howard Fine Studio in LA. A few of his early roles were in the 1990s Bird on a Wire, Cadence, Neon Rider and MacGyver with future Stargate SG-1 star Richard Dean Anderson. In the ensuing years, Judge had small parts in various television shows and movies such as 21 Jump Street (with future SG-1 director Peter DeLuise), The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and House Party 2, and as a regular on Sirens from 1994 to 1995.

Judge's largest role came in 1997 with Stargate SG-1. While at a friend's house, he saw his friend's roommate practicing for an audition for the show and was intrigued. While the roommate was away, Judge looked at the audition notes, then called his agent and insisted he get him an audition, or lose him as a client. At the audition there were three actors trying out for each of the other principal roles, but eight or ten for the role of Teal'c. Judge was confident that he had acquired the part when they dismissed everyone who had read for the part except him. Of all the actors in Stargate SG-1, Judge has been in the most episodes.

Judge's subsequent work includes guest spots on Andromeda, Stargate Atlantis, The Mentalist, the television movie Personal Effects, and the films Snow Dogs and A Dog's Breakfast, the latter written and directed by fellow Stargate actor David Hewlett. Judge appeared in "Anonymous", the October 26, 2010 episode of NCIS: Los Angeles, and as one of Bane's henchmen in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises.

Writing

Judge wrote four episodes of Stargate SG-1: season five's "The Warrior", season six's "The Changeling", season seven's "Birthright", and season eight's "Sacrifices".

After Stargate SG-1 was cancelled, Judge began writing a script for a show called Rage of Angels that would have enabled him to play "the lead in an hour formatted show and prove that a black lead can be commercially viable and sustainable in overseas markets." The script was marketed as a two-hour, back door pilot with MGM, but is now apparently with Direct TV and Starz Media.

Voice work

Judge has also done voice acting for animated series and video games, including the voice of Magneto on X-Men: Evolution and the canceled Stargate SG-1: The Alliance. In the season eight episode, "Avatar", Teal'c informs SG-1 that he plays Def Jam Vendetta, alluding to the fact that Chris Judge had provided the voice of D-Mob, the main antagonist in that game. He once again appeared as D-Mob in the sequel, Def Jam: Fight for NY, this time as a good guy and as the boss for your main character/hero. He is also known for voicing Jericho in Turok.

Judge provided the voice of Zodak on the revived He-Man and the Masters of the Universe cartoon as well as Coach Grey in the Action Man CGI series.

Personal life

Judge is involved with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Canada. He is an avid golfer. Judge has four children, Cameron Justin, Catrina Christine, Christopher Jordan and Chloe (born 2005). He married model/actress Gianna Patton on December 28, 2011.

Awards and nominations

In 2002, Judge was nominated for a Saturn Award in the category of Best Supporting Actor in a Television Series for his work on Stargate SG-1.

Filmography

Films
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Bird on a Wire	Cop at Cafe (as Doug Judge)
	Cadence	Psych. Ward M.P. #1 (as Douglas Judge)
1991	House Party 2	Miles (as D. Christopher Judge)
2001	Out of Line	Alfonso James
2002	Snow Dogs	Dr. Brooks
	Romantic Comedy 101	Nigel	Television Movie
2005	Personal Effects	Nate Wall	Television Movie
2007	A Dog's Breakfast	Chris
2008	Stargate: The Ark of Truth	Teal'c	Direct-to-video
	Stargate: Continuum	Teal'c	Direct-to-video
	Max Steel: Bio Crisis	Jefferson (voice)	Direct-to-video
2009	Stargate: Children of the Gods	Teal'c	Direct-to-video
2010	Paradox	Captain Papillo
2011	Dead Space: Aftermath	Nickolas Kuttner (voice)	Direct-to-video
	Rehab	Charles
2012	The Dark Knight Rises	Mercenary Assassin #3
	Clash of the Empires	Amthar	Direct-to-video
2013	Smokin'	Jim	Short
2014	Mega Shark vs. Mecha Shark	Jack Turner
	A Tiger's Tail	Joe Camp
	Knock 'em Dead	Freddy
	To Have and to Hold	Sampson
	Wraith	Wraith (voice)	Short
	The Underground Railroad	Bear	(Post-production)
	Reaper	Officer Banks	(Post-production)
	Doomed Planet	Lt. Grisham	(Post-production)
	Lowlifes	Commander Randall	(Filming)
	Nobility	Admiral Nev	(Filming)
2015	Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!	Secret Service Agent
TV series
Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Neon Rider
	MacGyver	Deron (as Doug Judge)	Episode: Live and Learn
	21 Jump Street	Man in Queue (Uncredited)	Episode: Unfinished Business
	Booker	Jones/Mover	Episodes: Hacker & Crazy
1994-1995	Sirens	Off. Richard Stiles (as D. Christopher Judge)	Recurring role Season 2 (22 episodes)
1995	The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air	Workman (as D. Christopher Judge)	Episode: There's the Rub: Part 2
2000	Adventures from the Book of Virtues	Plato (voice)	Main role Season 3 (13 episodes)
2001	First Wave	Xevallah	Episode: Beneath the Black Sky
	Freedom	Doctor Roeg	Episode: Mind Game
2000-2001	Action Man	Coach Simon Grey (voice)	Recurring role (14 episodes)
2002	Just Cause	Reverend Lester Stokes	Episode: The Wives of Christmas Past
2002-2003	Andromeda	Hector-Resolution of Hector/Achilles Avatar	Episodes: The Knight, Death and the Devil & Day of Judgement, Day of Wrath
2000-2003	X-Men: Evolution	Magneto/Magnus (voice)	Recurring role (20 episodes)
2003-2004	He-Man and the Masters of the Universe	Zodak/Zeelahr (voice) (as Chris Judge)	Episodes: Snake Pit, Rise of the Snake Men Part 1, Rise of the Snake Men Part 2 & Awaken the Serpent
1997-2007	Stargate SG-1	Teal’c	Main role (211 episodes)
2007-2008	Stargate: Atlantis	Teal’c	Episodes: Reunion & Midway
2010	NCIS: Los Angeles	Assan Refiq	Episode: Anonymous
2012	The Mentalist	Dante Holmes	Episode: Pink Champagne on Ice
2015	Chainsaw Sally: The Animated Series	The Baron	(Pre-production)
Video Games
Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Def Jam Vendetta	D-Mob (voice)
2004	Def Jam Fight for NY	D-Mob (voice) (as Chris Judge)
2008	Turok	Jericho (voice) (as Chris Judge)
2013	Stargate SG-1: Unleashed	Teal'c (voice)
Writer
Year	Title	Episode	Notes
2002	Stargate SG-1	The Warrior	Season 5, episode 18. Aired in January.
2003	Stargate SG-1	The Changeling	Season 6, episode 19. Aired in February.
	Stargate SG-1	Birthright	Season 7, episode 10. Aired in August.
2004	Stargate SG-1	Sacrifices	Season 8, episode 09. Aired in September.

[ Source: Wikipedia ]