Christopher Judge (born October 13, 1967 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor of African and Cherokee Indian descent. He attended the University of Oregon on a football scholarship, and was a three-time All-American. One of his first roles was in a 1990 episode of MacGyver. Judge is best known for playing Teal'c in Stargate SG-1. He has also done voice acting for animated series and video games, including the voice of Magneto on X-Men: Evolution, the cancelled Stargate SG-1: The Alliance, as well as writing several episodes of Stargate SG-1, most of which deal with crises for Teal'c.
He is also the only original Stargate SG-1 cast member who has, thus far, not appeared in the spin-off series Stargate Atlantis.
