Christopher Nash Elliott is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He is best known for playing Larry in Groundhog Day. Elliott also wrote and starred in the film Cabin Boy. He has won four consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for his writing. Elliott was hired as a production assistant on Late Night with David Letterman in 1982.
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Christopher Nash Elliott is an American actor, comedian, and writer. He is best known for playing Larry in Groundhog Day. Elliott also wrote and starred in the film Cabin Boy. He has won four consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for his writing. His other television appearances include recurring roles on Everybody Loves Raymond, and guest starring in How I Met Your Mother. Elliott was born in New York City, and is the youngest of five children of Lee, a model and TV director, and Bob Elliott, who was part of the successful comedy team Bob and Ray. He attended the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in the spring of 1979. He was hired as a production assistant on Late Night with David Letterman, and was with the show from its very beginning in February 1982.
He became known in the mid-to-late 1980s for playing an assortment of recurring quirky, oddball characters on the show. Elliott left Late Night in early 1990, though he would return as a guest interview subject many times on Letterman’s subsequent talk show The Late Show with DavidLetterman. In 1990, Elliott created and starred. in his own sitcom, which was called Get a Life, about a 30-year-old paperboy named Chris Peterson who lived at home with his parents. He played a serial killer in the series Third Watch in the episodes The Hunter, Hunted and Greatest in the World. He also has a small supporting role in an episode of Miami Vice.
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