Christopher Masterson's Real Name: Christopher Kennedy Masterson

Quick answer: Christopher Masterson's documented full name is Christopher Kennedy Masterson. Encyclopedia.com lists that as his full name and dates his birth to January 21, 1980, in Long Island, New York. TV Guide independently uses the same birth name and a birth place of Long Island, New York (Encyclopedia.com; TV Guide).

Real name and early life

He is known professionally as Christopher Masterson, and also as Chris Masterson in some credits. Both sources use Christopher Kennedy Masterson; only Encyclopedia.com supplies the January 21, 1980, date. Encyclopedia.com names his parents as Peter, an insurance agent, and Carol, a manager, and notes early commercial work including Trident Sugarless Mints in 1983. TV Guide says he made his first on-screen appearance in the 1988 television movie Hiroshima Maiden; Encyclopedia.com independently lists Timmy in Hiroshima Maiden on PBS that year.

Career highlights

Both sources identify his best-known role as Francis on Malcolm in the Middle. Encyclopedia.com dates the Fox series from 2000 and records a 2000 YoungStar Award, with others, for best young ensemble cast, plus a 2001 Young Artist Award nomination for the same show; TV Guide independently lists the 2000 YoungStar win and the 2001 Young Artist nomination. Encyclopedia.com's film and television credits also include Singles (1992), Cutthroat Island (1995), The Sunchaser (1996), My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), American History X (1998), Dragonheart: A New Beginning (2000), Scary Movie 2 (2001), the CBS series The Road Home (1994), the 1996 Fox pilot Youth in Revolt, the MTV movie Wuthering Heights (2003), guest appearances on Murphy Brown, Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, Touched by an Angel, The Pretender, Millennium, That '70s Show, and The Dead Zone, the 2005 film Waterborne, and producing Intellectual Property (2006). It also records Campfire Tales (1998) and Girl (1999), that he directed episodes of Malcolm in the Middle, and that he appeared on stage as Gus in Arcadia at the Mark Taper Forum in 1997.

Name notes for searchers

Christopher Kennedy Masterson is the documented full name in both Encyclopedia.com and TV Guide; professional credits also appear as Christopher Masterson and Chris Masterson. Searchers looking for Francis on Malcolm in the Middle are usually aiming at the same person.