Christopher Lee "Chris" Kattan (born October 19, 1970) is an
American actor/comedian, best known for his work on the
sketch comedy show
Saturday Night Live.
Personal life
Kattan was born in
Sherman Oaks,
California. His father,
Kip King (
né Jerome C. Kattan), is an actor and voice actor who appeared on the series
Reno 911! as Larrie Plum. His mother, Hajnalka E. Biro, was once photographed for
Playboy and worked as a model in '60s London.
His father is of
Iraqi
Jewish descent and his mother, a native of
Budapest,
Hungary, is a
Buddhist.
[j. - Celebrity Jews] The two divorced when Kattan was a toddler and his mother later married Dr. Marc Joslyn. Kattan lived on
Bainbridge Island,
Washington where he attended
Bainbridge High School, and graduated in 1989. He has a half-brother named Andrew Joslyn who resides in the Northwest, in
Seattle, Washington, and is 12 years younger than Kattan.
