Chris Noth

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Chris Noth
Chris Noth as Detective Mike Logan (CI Season 7)
Character Detective Mike Logan
Date of birth 13 November 1954
Place of birth Madison, Wisconsin
Chris Noth as Detective Mike Logan (L&O Season 1).
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Chris Noth is an actor who played Detective Mike Logan in Law & Order and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Noth made his first appearance in the pilot episode "Prescription for Death" (he also appeared in the original pilot "Everybody's Favorite Bagman" in 1988). He was fired from the show after the fifth season. Personality differences between Noth and creator Dick Wolf settled down long enough to film a Logan-centric TV movie, "Exiled: A Law & Order Movie" in 1998.

After Law & Order Noth scored a strong comeback when he took on the role of Carrie Bradshaw's enigmatic on-again, off-again boyfriend "Mr. Big" on HBO's Sex and the City. Noth played the role for six years, and reprised it in the 2008 film version of the series.

In 2001, he played an FBI agent on a couple of episodes of Crossing Jordan, re-uniting him with Law & Order co-star Jill Hennessy.

In 2005, Noth returned to the role of Mike Logan on Criminal Intent, joining the show in its fifth season following a guest appearance on the fourth season episode "Stress Position". On this spin-off of the original Law & Order, Noth's detective team alternated episodes with Vincent D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe's characters. Noth left CI and the role of Mike Logan for good in 2008.

Noth also appeared in an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street called "Law and Disorder" as Detective Mike Logan.

Along with Jerry Orbach, Dann Florek, and Fred Dalton Thompson, he is one of four Law & Order cast members who later joined the regular cast of one of the spin-off series.