Chris Farley

Chris Farley: Biography in Details

Who is Chris Farley?

Chris Farley was an actor as well as a comedian. His real name is Christopher Crosby Farley.

Between the years 1990-1995, he had become a member of Chicago’s Second and later a cast member of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live.

Furthermore, he had acted in the movies like such as Tommy Boy, Black Sheep, and Beverly Hills Ninja.

What caused Chris Farley’s death?

On 18th December 1997, at the age of 33, Chris Farley died of an accidental drug overdose(cocaine and morphine).

Chris Farley: Childhood, Education, and Family

Chris Farley was born on 15th December 1964 in Madison, Wisconsin.

He belongs to the American nationality. His ethnicity is Roman Catholic and of Irish and Scottish descent. He was born to his parents Thomas John Farley and Mary Anne. He had four siblings altogether i.e, Tom Jr., Kevin, John, and Barbara.

Moreover, he had studied in Catholic schools in his hometown, including Edgewood High School of the Sacred Heart. In 1986, he had completed his graduation from  Marquette University, with a concentration in communications and theater.

Then he worked with his father at the Scotch Oil Company in Madison. He even performed at Chicago’s Second City Theatre, initially as part of Second City’s touring group.

Furthermore, in 1989, he was a cast member of The Gods Must Be Lazy, It Was Thirty Years Ago Today, and Flag Smoking Permitted. As well as promoted to their Mainstage.

Professional Career, Awards, and Net Worth

He began his career when he became the Saturday Night Live cast member announced in 1990. Eventually, he acted in the comedy films Wayne’s World, Coneheads, Airheads, and uncredited in Billy Madison.

Between the years 1994-1995, he along with his fellow cast members were released from their contracts at Saturday Night Live. Then they released their two movies(Almost Heroes and Dirty Work,) but his habit of having drugs, as well as alcohol, affected his professional life.

Subsequently, he even appeared in a third Ghostbusters film, which was a new trio of Ghostbusters. He even showed up his interest in portraying Atuk in an adaptation of the novel The Incomparable Atuk.

In 2015, A television documentary on Farley’s life, I Am Chris Farley, was shown. The next year (2016), he was also the subject of the TV program, Autopsy: The Last Hours of Chris Farley.

Through his hard work in his professional life, he has earned a net worth of $5 million as of 2022.

As so far he has not achieved any kind of awards till now.

Chris Farley: Rumor and Controversy

There was a controversy that in 2008, in his movie “I Am Chris Farley,” which débuts Monday night on Spike TV as well as he became famous through this movie. But in the book “The Chris Farley Show,” an oral history was compiled and became the source of controversy.

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