Chris Bruno

Christopher Malcolm "Chris" Bruno (born March 15, 1966) is an American film and television actor, director, and producer best known for his role as Sheriff Walt Bannerman on the USA Network television series The Dead Zone.

Bruno was born in New Haven, Connecticut to actor Scott Bruno and Nancy M. Bruno. His younger brother Dylan, played Colby Granger is also an actor (best known for his role in Numb3rs). The brothers grew up in Milford with their mother, Nancy, but spent a substantial amount of time with their father on Manhattan's Upper West Side. During college, Bruno was active in both theater and sports. After an injury sidelined his skiing career while attending college in Vermont, he auditioned for and was cast in the lead in The Mandrake.

Transferring to the State University of New York at Stony Brook as a theatre major, he became the starting pitcher for the school's baseball team. Soon after college graduation, Bruno joined the cast of Another World as Dennis Carrington Wheeler and was nominated for a Soap Opera Award for Outstanding Newcomer. After Another World, he was cast as Michael Delaney on ABC's All My Children. Bruno spent some time as a stand up comedian in the years following his soap opera stints and landed several guest-starring spots on the sitcoms The Nanny, Jesse and Suddenly Susan.

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