Chris O' Donnell was born on June 26th, 1970. He is the youngest child in his family with four sisters and two brothers. He first started modeling at the age of thirteen and continued until the age of sixteen, when he appeared in commercials. When he was seventeen, he was preparing to stop acting and modeling, but was asked to audition for what would be his first film, Men Don't Leave. He didn't want to go to the audition, but his mother bribed him by saying she would buy him a new car if he went and he duly got the role.

Ever since that moment in his life, Chris has appeared in some major motion pictures including Fried Green Tomatoes, Scent of a Woman, Mad Love and Vertical Limit. He is currently working on Kinsey, which should appear in theaters in the year 2004.

Chris took time off from acting to spend time with his wife, Caroline, son, Chris Jr., and his daughter Lilly. He also spent two months in New York performing in Arthur Miller's "The Man Who Had All the Luck".


The Chamber (1996): $4,000,000
Mad Love (1995): $1,500,000

Chris' personal stunt double is stuntman Jim McConnell (1996 - present) Chosen by People (USA) magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world [1996] Born the seventh child. Listed as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1992" in John Willis' Screen World, Vol. 44. Attended Loyola Academy (Chicago) and UCLA. Graduated from Boston College in 1995 with a BA in marketing. Participated in a golf event and raised $500,000 for the Motion Picture and Television Fund. [2000] Originally cast in The Prince of Tides (1991), but Barbra Streisand decided she wanted her real son to play the part. She wanted to personally apologize to Chris, so she called his dorm room. One of his roommates answered the phone and took the message, which bewildered him because Chris had not yet mentioned that he was "in the movie biz". "Never date an actress" - a piece of advice given to him by Al Pacino. Avid golfer who belongs to a number of clubs including Pine Valley and The Bel Air Country Club Voted "Most Likely To Run Off And Join The Circus" by his class at Loyola Academy. The final choice for the role of Robin in Batman Forever (1995) came down between him and Leonardo DiCaprio. Kids in the key demographic were polled as to which of the two would win in a fight. O'Donnell beat DiCaprio out. Won the part of Robin over several other actors, who included (according to Joel Schumacher) Alan Cumming, Toby Stephens, Jude Law, Ewan McGregor and, most notably, Christian Bale, who went on to play Batman. The second time he played the role, he acted opposite Uma Thurman, whose ex-husband Gary Oldman went on to play Commissioner Gordon. August 1, 2007: Announced he was expecting a 5th child with his wife, Caroline Fentress. Graduated from Boston College in 1992.