Full Name Maher Boutros Role Film actor Nationality American Spouse Valerie Maher | Website cookingstudiotaos.com Name Christopher Maher Children Caleb Maher, Milo Maher | |
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Movies Enough, Mannequin, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Executive Decision, Best Defense Similar People Steve Vinovich, Michael Gottlieb, Tessa Allen, Carole Davis, Dan Futterman | ||
Christopher Maher is a film and television actor as well as a chef.
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Background
Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Maher's family moved to Toronto in the 1960s. He started pre-med studies but changed to acting at the University of Toronto. Arriving in New York in 1978, he studied acting further at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.
Maher worked at Tavern on the Green, where he met Drew Nieporent.
He broke into Entertainment with a year-long role as assassin Colonel Hashim on Another World.
Acting
In 1982, Maher moved to Los Angeles to pursue motion-picture roles. He changed his name from Maher Boutros to Christopher Maher. "I was typecast as a dumb Arab or a bad Arab, one or the other. It depressed me, and I just refused to do any more."
He has appeared in feature films and television episodes from Taxi and Hill Street Blues to Law and Order, 24, The West Wing and NCIS. He is in Olive, in which he starred with Gena Rollins.
Cooking
Maher was also recognized by the James Beard Foundation as one of the great regional chefs of America and has cooked at the Beard House in New York City.
He runs a cooking school called "Cooking Studio Taos" plus natural and organic food venture in Taos. The food products are sold under the name "Caleb&Milo", named after their two sons. They sell their products in whole food markets and other gourmet markets. Christopher has cooked for many world figures including HH Tenzin Gyatso the Dalai Lama and President Bill Clinton.
Personal
Maher lives in Taos, New Mexico, where he runs a cooking school called "Cooking Studio Taos" with wife Valerie