Biography

About Chris Wylde

Chris Wylde portrait in a black suit with dramatic stage lighting

Actor, Comedian, Host

Chris Wylde is an actor, comedian, and host whose career spans more than two decades of work across film, television, digital media, and audio.

Born Chris Noll in New Jersey, he studied at American University in Washington, D.C., where he got his start performing on PBS's Standard Deviants. He adopted the stage name Chris Wylde after joining the Screen Actors Guild and quickly transitioned to screen work, landing early film roles in Clint Eastwood's Space Cowboys and Coyote Ugly in 2000.

In 2001, he starred in, wrote, and produced his own Comedy Central series, The Chris Wylde Show Starring Chris Wylde. He went on to host 44 episodes of Taboo! and appeared on shows including Strip Mall, Just Shoot Me!, Hollywood Squares, and General Hospital.

His film work continued throughout the 2000s and 2010s with roles in Joe Dirt, Evolution, The Ten, The Revenant (for which he won Best Actor at the New York City Horror Film Festival in 2009), Earth to Echo, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and The DUFF.

More recently, Wylde has appeared in Netflix features including The Babysitter, The Babysitter: Killer Queen, When We First Met, Rim of the World, and Tall Girl 2. He recurred as Glenn on Young Sheldon and has voiced characters on Gravity Falls, Pickle and Peanut, The Cuphead Show!, Amphibia, and Hailey's On It!.

Beyond the screen, Wylde created the viral web series Dadholes, which went viral via Reddit and was later developed as a CBS comedy through Eric Christian Olsen's Cloud Nine production company. He co-hosts ClipCast, the longest-running Clippers podcast, alongside Henry Dittman, and hosts The Wild Hour with Jason Auer. In 2026, he stars as Chris del Vecchio in the fiction podcast The Red Weather, alongside Rider Strong, which was featured at SXSW 2026.

He also won Best Supporting Actor at the SIMI Film Fest in 2024 for the pilot Roomies, which screened at Dances With Films, Sherman Oaks Film Festival, and New York CineFest.

Active in the industry since 2000. Over 60 screen credits. Ongoing podcast and digital presence.