Chris Bowers
CChris Bowers, son of an American foreign service officer, was born in Panama and has lived in Poland, Singapore and attended high school in Bonn, Germany. In between overseas posts, home was Arlington, Virginia. His father was the United States Ambassador to Bolivia in the mid-1990s and his sister was a competitive, nationally-ranked swimmer.

Bowers graduated Brown University with a Bachelors of Arts degree in semiotics and English literature. He studied acting in New York City with instructor Maggie Flanigan, and landed his first professional acting job on Broadway in Arthur Miller’s After the Fall. Chris has a host of New York film credits to his name including Shut Up & Sing and Off Islanders. He has performed in numerous NYC theatrical productions including After the Fall, Year's End, Faith, Comedy of Errors and Stranger Desire.

Prior to pursuing acting full-time, Bowers was a rock musician, playing guitar and bass. A consummate musician and performer, Chris was a member of the band Simi and a member of ASCAP.He has toured (supporting and shared billing) with such acts as Cheap Trick, Joey Ramone and Joan Jett. In his free time, Bowers enjoys board sports and playing music.

In 2006 Chris guest-starred in 4 episodes of the TV drama Rescue Me, as Larry Bird, the owner of Birdy's, an Irish pub with a heavy Celtics theme. One of the regulars, Chief Reilly takes a part-time job there to help him make ends meet. Bird [Chris] ends of not paying Reilly for his work and after an altercation with 2 of the Chief's co-workers, end up firing him.

Credits [including]:
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit [2006].... T-Bone / 1 episode
Rescue Me [2006].... Larry Bird / 4 episodes
The Radium Follies [2006)]... Benedict
Conviction [2006].... Henry Morris / 1 episode
Shut Up and Sing [2006]... Spooner
The Book of Tennis Chronicles [2005] … self / unknown episodes
2nd and A [2004].... Damon
Off Islanders [2004]... Premauer