From IMDB:

Christopher Bradley was born one of eight children and raised in the New Mexico desert. His father was a college professor and his mother was a registered nurse. He moved to Ft. Worth, Texas at age 18 when he was offered a scholarship to Texas Christian University, from which he graduated with a BFA in theatre.

In between film work he completed his MFA in Screenwriting at UCLA. He is currently earning an MFA in Animation.

His most recent animated short, Backstage with Little Lorenzo (2002), is currently making the festival circuit.

Chris' autobiography, from
The Christopher Bradley Appreciation Society:

I was born the sixth of eight children to an Irish Catholic family in Northumberland, PA. When I was five years old, my mother almost died of asthma and we moved to Albuquerque, NM to be in a drier climate. My father took an enormous financial hit. His new salary didn’t go far with a family of ten.

We rarely got to go to the movies, so when we did, it was a huge deal. When I was 5 or 6, the whole family was packed into the station wagon to see The Sound of Music at a drive-in. I was completely taken by the film. Here was a huge family like ours, but they were rich and happy, running around the Austrian countryside singing. I couldn’t quite separate the movie from the real lives of these child-actors, but I knew for sure I wanted to go wherever they were. I wanted to be an actor.

I asked my mother to take me where I could get into a movie like that. She said, “Maybe when you’re older.” I said, “Like, when I’m 8?” I don’t remember her answer, but I was essentially on my own. I had to figure out how to get there myself.

When I was eighteen, I managed to win a scholarship to Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth, and earned a theatre degree there. Luckily, nearby Dallas was becoming a popular destination for filmmakers just at that moment. I landed a part in a low-budget horror movie called The Initiation two weeks after I graduated. I knew the movie wasn’t going to win any awards, but I was ecstatic to be on a movie set after dreaming about it all those years. I got my union cards in Dallas and eventually made my way to Los Angeles. I’ve acted in films, on television and in commercials, traveling all over the U.S. and the world, including a 5-month stint in Moscow just after the coup against Boris Yeltsin was overthrown.

I’d been a professional actor for about fifteen years when I thought, “I’ve read at least seven or eight hundred scripts by now. I’ve pulled them apart for story and structure and character and dialog. I should write something myself.”

Once I started writing, I couldn’t stop.

I was happily shocked when an independent film producer immediately optioned my first script. That got me thinking, “If I could get a script optioned with no professional training, what would happen if I went to school and really learned?”

I applied to the UCLA MFA Screenwriting Program. Out of 800 applicants, I was one of 20 selected.

The screenwriting program at UCLA helped me to find my unique voice as a writer. When I graduated, I had five scripts ready to go. I’ve won a number of contests, including the $10,000.00 Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship in Screenwriting.

I have several irons in the fire right now screenwriting-wise, and I’ve just signed with Sharp Talent Management as an actor.

I’m eagerly looking forward to whatever’s next!