Chip Chinery

Chip Chinery was born on Aug 10, 1964 in USA. Chip Chinery's big-screen debut came with The Jenny McCarthy Show - Season 1 directed by Joel Gallen in 1997, strarring Various. Chip Chinery is known for Better Off Ted directed by Michael Fresco, Jay Harrington stars as Ted Crisp and Portia de Rossi as Veronica Palmer. Chip Chinery has got 1 awards and 1 nominations so far. The most recent award Chip Chinery achieved is National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Emmy Awards, Ohio Valley Chapter. The upcoming new tvshow Chip Chinery plays is Fam - Season 1 which will be released on Jan 10, 2019.

Chip Chinery's showbiz career began as a 16-year-old stand-up comic. After graduating from Miami University with a Psychology degree, he worked as a TV cameraman for the CBS affiliate in Cincinnati and then as Director of Communications for TheBankMart in Connecticut. 24-year-old Chip started touring the country 45 weeks a year for a decade on the stand-up club circuit.In 1993, Chip won the Emmy for "On-Air Performer" in the Midwest region. This was for stand-up, sketches and a man-on-the-street piece that he wrote, produced and performed. In 1994, Chip secured his second Emmy nomination. This was for a "Short Subject" that he wrote, produced, edited, and performed.Chip studied briefly with Martin duMaat at Second City in Chicago before moving to Hollywood in 1994. He continued his improv/sketch training at The Groundlings and Acme Comedy Theatre. Chip worked his way up to the Main Company at Acme. He balanced his stand-up work on The Road with sketch, improv and auditions in Los Angeles.It took 160 auditions over 3½ years before Chip booked his first commercial, and almost four years before he booked his first TV show: 3rd Rock From the Sun, playing the inept maintenance man in several episodes from 1997-1999. Good News: That is where Chip had his first onscreen kiss. Bad News: It was with John Lithgow.