Chris Chalk

Personal context

Summary

Chris Chalk is an actor known for Gotham, Perry Mason, The Newsroom, When They See Us, and 12 Years a Slave. His work includes historical dramas and crime stories, and he has described wanting black characters to have full lives rather than serve as props for white characters’ growth. In discussing Perry Mason, he said he wanted Paul Drake’s story to honor black people as people, and he collaborated with the Equal Justice Initiative on an animated short about the lynching of Black veteran Private James Neely. No public party campaigning, DEI affiliations, or broader activist record is on record.