Chris was born in Long Beach, California. He has lived throughout Los Angeles, California for most of his life but did spend time in Denver, Colorado as a child (where his mother is from). Inglewood, Culver City, Torrance, & Hawthorne are parts of LA where he lived with his father. In 1990 Chris ran-away to the streets, he joined a gang, & got in to a lot of "Trouble". In & out of incarceration for many years of his life which is where he got most of his ink work done. In 2002 he met some guys from Suspect Entertainment who were coming on the scene as bad boys in movies and music videos. He was not at first interested since he was still living the "street life". He saw a couple of videos & thought it was something legit he could get into. Having only done tattoos as legit work. So he took the offer & made his acting debut in a Korean television drama 'All In' combined as Fernando the gang fighter. Shortly after that Chris went on to be featured in several big music videos. He worked hard at it and eventually got parts in movies & American television bringing an authenticity to the bad boy roles. To help his craft he got training at El Camino College in fundamentals of acting. Now he can be seen on TV around the world & in movie roles as the ultimate bad boy who takes his roles beyond make believe. He didn't leave the street life, he graduated from it.