Christopher Hardwick (born November 23 1971) is an American actor, television personality, and comedian.
Hardwick was born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of professional bowler Billy Hardwick. He attended University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) (Class of 1992).
Hardwick was a DJ on influential Los Angeles radio station KROQ during the mid-1990s.
Hardwick voiced Alexander Hamilton in The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd, and is currently voicing Otis in Back at the Barnyard, an animated series airing on Nickelodeon. He hosted MTV's Singled Out and the syndicated dating show Shipmates. He appeared in Rob Zombie's horror film House of 1000 Corpses. He provided the voice for Green Arrow/Oliver Queen on the cartoon series The Batman.
Hardwick is also a stand-up comic and performs with Mike Phirman in the music comedy duo Hard 'n Phirm.
As of October 2007, he has been hosting Wired Science on PBS, writing for Wired (magazine), and now works for G4's Attack of the Show as the gadget guy.
Christopher Michael Hardwick (born December 6, 1983) is an American competitive speedcuber.
Born in Merritt Island, Florida, he attended the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (class of 2002) and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (class of 2005).
He is known especially for his blindfolded national record solution times of Rubik's Revenge and Rubik's Professor's Cube puzzles, though he started out as a top one-handed cuber. He holds the United States record for fastest time solving a 4x4x4 cube, at 55.38 seconds, set at the blank">Caltech Dallas 2005 competition.
Hardwick has made a number of television appearances demonstrating the _Rubik's Cube, including MTV in 2002, Canada AM and Much Music in the fall of 2003, explaining about the 2003 Rubik's Cube World Championships. His home videos have also appeared on numerous online video sites including CollegeHumor and Digg. A home video of Hardwick solving a 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube one-handed appeared on VH1 in 2006 for Web Junk 20. Axe deodorant parodied another one of Hardwick's home videos in their 2006 South African "Get a Girlfriend" commercial campaign.
Studied philosophy at UCLA
Son of bowling Hall of Famer Billy Hardwick.
Was engaged to Jacinda Barrett.
