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Personal Info

Birth date

1965-09-09 (59 Years)

Gender

Male

Known for

Acting

Place of birth

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

Also known as

Chip Esten
چارلز استن

Charles Esten

Biography

Charles Esten Puskar III (September 9, 1965), also known as Chip Esten, is an American actor, musician and comedian. He is best known for his role as country singer Deacon Claybourne on the ABC/CMT drama Nashville (2012-2018), which subsequently kickstarted his own musical career. He's also known for his comedy (as Chip Esten) on the US version of the improv series Whose Line Is it Anyway?.

Filmography

Acting

TBASigning Day as Coach Crew Marshall

2024Homestead: The Series (7 Episodes) as Cain Ross

2024Grizzly Night as Gary Bunney

2024The Easy Kind as Tye

2021Tubydi as Padastro

2020Outer Banks (30 Episodes) as Ward Cameron

2019The Kelly Clarkson Show (1, 2 Episode) as Unknown, Self

2018Nashville in Concert as Unknown

2017Die Helene Fischer Show 2017 as Self

2013Whose Line Is It Anyway? (6 Episodes) as Self

2012Nashville (124 Episodes) as Deacon Claybourne

2011Enlightened (1 Episode) as Damon Manning

2011Jessie (4 Episodes) as Morgan Ross

2011Wilfred (2 Episodes) as Nick

2011Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza (40 Episodes) as Self

2009NCIS: Los Angeles (1 Episode) as John Cole / Ethan Stanhope

20081% as John Tipton

2008The Mentalist (1 Episode) as Rick Bregman

2008Swing Vote as Lewis

2007American Family as Larry Bogner

2007The Winner (1 Episode) as Unknown

2006The New Adventures of Old Christine (2 Episodes) as Joe Campbell

2006Big Love (11 Episodes) as Ray Henry

2005The Office (8 Episodes) as Josh Porter

2004Drew Carey's Green Screen Show (13 Episodes) as Self

2004Nobody Knows Anything! as Conner Fulton

2003Cold Case (1 Episode) as John 'The Hawk' Hawkins

2003On the Spot (5 Episodes) as Unknown

2003Water Under the Bridge as Don

2002CMT Music Awards (1 Episode) as Self - Host

2002Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet as Bill (segment "Twelve Miles to Trona")

2001The Guardian (1 Episode) as Mark Hanson

200161* as Kevin Maris

2001Drew Carey's Improv All Stars as Self (as Chip Esten)

2000Thirteen Days as Maj. Rudolf Anderson

1999Jack & Jill (1 Episode) as Unknown

1999Late Last Night as Beverly Hills Cop

1999Providence (1 Episode) as Ted Shannon

1998Jesse (1 Episode) as Tad

1998The Brian Benben Show (9 Episodes) as Unknown

1998Whose Line Is It Anyway? (39 Episodes) as Self

1997The Postman as Michael

1997The Sleepwalker Killing as Mark Schall

1997Just Shoot Me! (1 Episode) as Jake

1995JAG (1 Episode) as Pete "Pistol" Ayers

1995The Drew Carey Show (2 Episodes) as Chip

1995The Crew (21 Episodes) as Randy Anderson

1995Star Trek: Voyager (1 Episode) as Dathan

1994ER (4 Episodes) as Barry Grossman

1993Diagnosis: Murder (1 Episode) as Joe Carter

1993Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (1 Episode) as Unknown

1987Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 Episode) as Divok

1982Cheers (1 Episode) as Marine

Writing

20033-2-1 Penguins!: Moon Menace on Planet Tell-A-Lie ... Writer

1999Rocket Power (119 Episodes) ... Writer