克里斯·埃利斯（Chris Ellis）是美国影视演员，1956年4月14日出生于德克萨斯州达拉斯。埃利斯一直想成为一名演员，因为电视。他于上世纪50年代在南方深处的“贫困和暴力世界”中长大，但在电视上看到人们似乎过着安逸和特权的生活。

然而，他花了七年时间才完成大学学业，因为“我一直都是无所事事的”。在那些年里，克里斯参与了孟菲斯的社区剧院，“我曾经并且仍然认为作品的质量一直很好”。当他搬到纽约时，他已经与许多优秀的演员合作了大约二十几部古典和现代戏剧。“我无法想象是什么取代了纽约新移民的背景。

1979 年，他在电视或电影中的第一个角色，在安吉·狄金森主演的电视电影《自杀的妻子》中扮演一名卡车司机。这个角色导致很少的电视或电影作品。在地区剧院工作了一年左右后，克里斯从雷达屏幕上掉了下来，大约十年没有工作。在那段时间里，他生活在曼哈顿地狱厨房的“磨骨的贫困”中。在1987年的九个月里，克里斯接受了102次晚宴邀请。“我不知道他们为什么一直来，也不知道我为什么数他们，尽管我知道我为什么接受他们。

1990 年，当他出演由汤姆·克鲁斯、妮可·基德曼、加里·埃尔维斯、罗伯特·杜瓦尔和兰迪·奎德主演的《雷霆之日》时，他获得了突破。约翰·赖利（John C. Reilly）和弗雷德·道尔顿·汤普森（Fred Dalton Thompson）也出现了。这似乎开启了埃利斯的职业生涯，他与乔·佩西和玛丽莎·托梅一起出演了《我的表弟文尼》，在《亚当斯家庭价值观》中扮演了一小部分，在阿波罗 13 号中扮演了一个更大的角色，因为前美国宇航局水星七号宇航员德克·斯雷顿和汤姆·汉克斯紧随其后。他还开始在《梅尔罗斯广场》、《纽约警察局蓝色》和《X档案》等知名电视节目中获得学分。

自从与汉克斯合作拍摄阿波罗 13 号以来，两人合作制作了电视迷你剧《从地球到月球》和《如果可以的话就抓住我》。 埃利斯在 1998 年的《世界末日》中扮演飞行总监时回到了虚构的 NASA 任务控制中心。

埃利斯出演的其他电影包括《炸薯条》、《十月的天空》、《自由生活或虎胆龙威》和《变形金刚》。他的电视作品还包括《西翼》、《鬼语者》、《芝加哥希望》、《伪装者》、《别名》、《JAG》、《CSI：NY》、《BURN NOTICE》和《Cold Case》。他出现在《千禧年》第一季的三集中，饰演乐队成员吉姆·潘塞耶斯。他以在描绘南方立法者或严肃的军事或警察类型角色方面特别有才华而享有盛誉。

他还在《犯罪心理》中饰演警长吉米·罗德斯（Jimmy Rhodes），他呼吁 BAU 帮助调查新墨西哥州的一系列谋杀案。除此之外，他还在海军罪案调查处（NCIS）中客串了两次，饰演枪械中士约翰·德卢卡（John Deluca）。埃利斯在第 1 季剧集“诅咒”中的出现没有得到认可，而他在第 2 季的“The Bone Yard”中的第二次也是最后一次出现得到了认可。

Chris Ellis is an American film and television actor who was born April 14, 1956 in Dallas, Texas. Ellis always wanted to be an actor because of television. He grew up in the 50's in the deep south in a "world of privation and violence", but saw on television people who seemed to have lives of ease and privilege.

It took him seven years to finish college however, because "I have always been shiftless". During those years Chris became involved in community theatre in Memphis, where "I did and do still think the quality of the work has always been quite good". By the time he moved to New York, he had worked with many excellent actors in about two dozen plays, classical and contemporary. "I cannot imagine what might have supplanted that background for a newcomer in New York."

His first part in either television or film came in 1979, where he played a truck driver in the TV movie The Suicide's Wife, which starred Angie Dickinson. The role resulted in very little TV or film work. After working in regional theatre for a year or so, Chris fell off the radar screen and did not work for about ten years. During that time he lived in "bone-grinding poverty" in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen. In one nine-month period of 1987, Chris accepted 102 dinner invitations. "I don't know why they kept arriving, nor why I counted them, though I do know why I accepted them."

In 1990, a break came when he got a part in Days of Thunder, which starred Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Cary Elwes, Robert Duvall, and Randy Quaid. John C. Reilly and Fred Dalton Thompson also appear. This seemed to jump-start Ellis' career as parts in films like My Cousin Vinny with Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei, a small part in Addams Family Values, and a larger one in Apollo 13 as former NASA Mercury Seven astronaut Deke Slayton, alongside Tom Hanks, followed. He also began picking up credits on well-known television shows like Melrose Place, NYPD Blue, and The X-Files.

Since working with Hanks on Apollo 13, the two have worked together on That Thing You Do, the TV miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, and Catch Me If You Can. Ellis returned to a fictional NASA Mission Control when he played a Flight Director in 1998's Armageddon.

Additional films in which Ellis has appeared include Home Fries, October Sky, Live Free or Die Hard, and Transformers. His television credits also include The West Wing, Ghost Whisperer, Chicago Hope, The Pretender, Alias, JAG, CSI: NY, Burn Notice, and Cold Case. He appeared in three season one episodes of Millennium as group member Jim Panseayres. He has established a reputation as being particularly talented at portraying Southern lawmakers or serious military or police-type characters.

He also appeared in Criminal Minds as Sheriff Jimmy Rhodes who calls for the BAU's help in investigating a string of murders in New Mexico. In addition to that, he also had two guest appearances in NCIS as Gunnery Sergeant John Deluca. Ellis's appearance in the Season 1 episode, "The Curse" was uncredited while his second and final appearance in Season 2's "The Bone Yard" was credited.

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