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Lugar y fecha de nacimiento. Chris Farley (1964 - ) Actor, comedian Born: February 15, 1964, Wisconsin Education: Marquette University (communications, theater) A manic, rotund comedian, Farley describes himself as a class clown and teacher's nightmare who, along with theater studies at Milwaukee's Marquette University, trained under improvisation teacher Del Close (who had worked with John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, and Bill Murray). Close brought the oafish physical comic to the Main Stage at Second City, and for a while Farley toured with the group's national company. A stint at Second City's theater in Chicago, where many Saturday Night Live alumni had honed their comic instincts, led to an audition with SNL producer Lorne Michaels, and, in 1990, Farley joined the NBC comedy series where his idols had toiled. Farley brought his no-holds-barred comic elan to such characterizations as the peripatetic, oft-divorced inspirational speaker Matt Foley and, in a role Farley admitted reflects his omnipresent nervousness and eagerness to please, the insecure talk show host of The Chris Farley Show. His high-octane physical comedy has also embellished such weighty impersonations as Mama Cass, Newt Gingrich, Jerry Garcia and Meatloaf. Farley also has done a dead-on take of Tom Arnold, and in fact has played Arnold's brother on two TV sitcoms, The Jackie Thomas Show (ABC, 1992) and Tom (CBS, 1994). Farley left Saturday Night Live in 1995. Comparisons with the similarly zany and hefty Second City and/or SNL alumni John Belushi and John Candy were common by this point, and Farley, like so many of that crowd, gradually parlayed his TV fame into feature film work, often based on SNL. He played security guards in EL MUNDO SEGUN WAYNE (1992) and EL MUNDO SEGUN WAYNE 2 (1993) and the alien daughter's well-meaning boyfriend in LOS CONEHEADS (1993). In 1995, Farley teamed up with fellow SNL-er David Spade in TOMMY BOY, in which Farley played a problem college student who tries to save his father's business. The following year, Farley and Spade repeated the formula in Penelope Spheeris' BLACK SHEEP, about a Billy Carter/Roger Clinton-like political relative and his handler.
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