Christopher Noth (surname pronounced ) (born November 13 1954 in Madison, Wisconsin) is an actor in American film, stage and television. He is best known for two long-running television roles: as Detective Mike Logan on Law & Order, and as "Mr. Big" on Sex and the City.

Noth is a name which has its origins in the European area of Alsace-Lorraine (on the border of France and Germany), where it is pronounced as "note." The youngest of three sons whose father, Charles, died when he was eight, Noth traveled throughout the United Kingdom, Serbia and Montenegro, and Spain with his mother, CBS News reporter Jeanne Parr.

His undergraduate poetry-writing years were spent at Marlboro College in Vermont, where he built himself a log cabin. He earned an MFA from Yale University (where he acted in some twenty-five plays) and was a pupil of acting coach Sanford Meisner before making his film debut in the low-budget Jakarta (1988). Noth has referred to Indonesia as his "spiritual home," and lived there for a year and a half. He also had small parts in films such as Smithereens (1982) and Baby Boom (1987), and on TV series such as Hill Street Blues and Another World.

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