Chris Noth

Biography: The son of CBS television reporter Jeanne Parr, intense-eyed actor Chris Noth received an MFA from Yale's School of Drama but didn't hit it big until his mid-thirties when he played the role of volatile detective Mike Logan on Law & Order for five seasons. He later reprised the character on the spin-off Law & Order: Criminal Intent for three seasons. After Sex and the City turned him into a sex symbol, he continued his role of Mr. Big for the series' big-screen adaptation in 2008, as well as its 2010 sequel. Noth continues to work in multiple mediums, moving seamlessly from the Sex and the City films to theater work (an off-Broadway production of Farragut North in 2008) to TV shows (The Good Wife). Off screen, he owns a Manhattan nightclub called the Cutting Room and a series of kid-friendly tea rooms in Canada called Once Upon a Teacup.