Who Is Chrissy Metz? Wiki, TV Show, Net Worth, 'This Is Us' And Facts To Know

Chrissy Metz was born Christine Michelle Metz when she came into the world on the September 29, 1980 in Homestead, Florida. The American television show actress and singer is best known for her role as Kate Pearson on the NBC television series 'This Is Us.' 'This Is Us' has consequently brought stardom her way as she was nominated in 2017 for a Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She was equally nominated for a Golden Globe Award for the same feat based on her role on 'This is Us.' Chrissy Metz's is Mark Metz and he spent a substantial part of his early life in Japan having been stationed there with the US Navy. This meant that Chrissy Metz spent her formative years in Japan even though she was born in America. Her mother's name is Denise Hodge and Chrissy has two siblings and half-siblings with whom she grew up. She and her family eventually returned to the US and settled in Gainesville, Florida, and that was where she went to elementary, middle, and high school. As you look at her, one thing is obvious and that is her weight. This itself has been a major concern for the singer and actress so she's been putting forth a lot of effort to lose the weight.

Chris Metz married Martyn Eaden, a British journalist at a wedding conducted in a beachside (Santa Barbara) in California. The wedding took place on January 5, 2008. The couple has no children and eventually divorced on December 11, 2015, as an aftermath of the divorce, filed by Eaden. Martyn Eaden told the court that his reason for wanting a divorce with Chrissy Metz was as a result of an 'irreconcilable difference.' Prior to their official divorce, the couple started living separately in January 2013, 5 years into their marriage. After two years of separation their divorce was finalized. As it is, Chrissy Metz is still single (and probably searching).

Chrissy Metz began her acting career in 2005 by playing the role of Counter Girl in the TV Show titled 'Entourage.' From that time on until now, she has been featured in seven television series and three movies. The television shows where she's been featured are 'Entourage'(2005); 'All of Us' (2005); 'My Name Is Earl'(2008); 'Solving Charlie' (2009); 'Huge'(2010); 'American Horror Story: Freak Show'(2014/2015), and her latest Show 'This Is Us'(2016 to date). Similarly, here are the three movies Chrissy Metz was featured in during 2007. She was Bonnie in 'American Horror Story: Freak Show' which was released in 2007. She equally played the role of the heavy girl in a 2008 movie titled 'The Onion Movie.' 'Sierra Burgess Is a Loser' was released in 2018. This year marks her third movie appearance. She acted as Veronica's mom in that movie though Chrissy Metz seems to have gained a large percent of her popularity from her role in the NBC 'This Is Us' TV show. 'This Is Us' has won Chrissy Metz two notable awards, including The Primetime Emmy Awards and the Golden Globe Awards but unfortunately, she didn't win either one. She was nominated for both awards as the Best Supporting Actress. Apart from acting, Chrissy Metz also sings. She is the lead singer in her own band known as 'Chrissy and The Vapors.'

With the exception of 2017 and 2018 she hasn't been nominated for an award nor has she won an award. In fact, all of her nominations to date were in the past two years. In all, Chrissy Metz has been nominated for 7 awards and all of them were because of her sterling performance in the NBC drama titled 'This Is Us.' This NBC drama won her four award nominations in 2017 including the 'Golden Globe Awards' for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film. In the same year, she was also nominated for the MTV Movie And TV Awards and the Primetime Emmy Awards as the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. Her last nomination in 2017 was the one from Teen Choice Awards which nominated her for the Choice TV Breakout Star award. She was only nominated three times in 2018 and this year was the only year she won an award to date. Here are the three awards she was nominated for: The Critics' Choice Television Awards for the Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series; Golden Globe Awards for the Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film, and the Screen Actors Guild Awards for the Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series which she eventually won. That means she was twice nominated for the Golden Globe Awards but she couldn't lay her hands on it in two of the instances. Hopefully, she is nominated for other awards to increase her chances of winning.

Chrissy Metz is relatively new to acting and hasn't been able to accrue much money from acting and singing. 'Celebrity net worth' has pegged the singer and actress' net worth at $3 million dollars. That's actually not bad considering that she only started in 2005 and that hasn't been featured in too many movies. She is just 38 years old which means there are bright days ahead of her. If she can succeed in bringing down her weight as she's been trying to her overall net worth may rise.

Being on an NBC drama has brought at least seven award nominations for this American singer and actress which means it's good to beam our searchlight on the said series. 'This Is Us' is a drama created by Dan Fogelman. It was first shown on NBC on the September 20, 2016. So many stars are featured in that series some of which include: Milo Ventimiglia, Sterling K. Brown, Mandy Moore, Chrissy Metz, Susan Kelechi Watson, Justin Hartley, Chris Sullivan, Jon Huertas, Alexandra Breckenridge, and Ron Cephas Jones. The premise of this movie was based on three siblings who are referred to as "The big three," Kate, Kevin, and Randall. Their parents go by the name Rebecca Pearson (mother) and Jack Pearson (Father). As the story goes, Kate and Kevin were the only two out of the triplets of their parents that survived after they were born six weeks early. The third child died on the day he was born and as luck would have it, the day the triplets were delivered, another child was abandoned by his parents at a nearby fire station. Originally the Pearsons were expecting three children so they took the abandoned child and made him theirs through adoption. They gave him his own name, Randall. Randall is black while Kate and Kevin are white. 'This Is Us' has two seasons, each having 18 episodes. The series has been nominated for several awards such as the Golden Globe Awards, Best Drama Series and so on. In fact, Sterling K., one of the star actors in the series has won a Primetime Emmy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and Critics' Choice Awards all for his role on the series. Similarly, the duo of Chrissy Metz and Mandy Moore were equally nominated for the Golden Globe Awards. In all, the series itself was nominated for 10 times for different Primetime Emmy Awards.

There are quite a few things about this American plus-size singer and actress that you might want to know. Some of these are highlighted below.

1. Chrissy Metz had always wanted to appear in a lead role on a television series. She started acting career 2005, though she hasn't been featured in too many series or movies as such. There has always been a gap of few years between one appearance and the next. However, her dream came through in 2016 when she landed her first leading role on the television series 'This Is Us.' Her opinion, however, is that rather than turning plus-size people like her into jokes in movies and series, more serious roles should be given to them. Chrissy Metz, nevertheless agrees that people of her size may have to start writing such stories where plus-size women would play a more serious role rather than being turned into a laughing stock in movies.

Chrissy Metz, the Primetime Emmy Awards Nominee is well represented on different social media namely Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Her presence on Instagram is, however, more pronounced than the rest. Chrissy Metz's Instagram pictures reveal the several ways in which she has come to love herself despite her size. Apart from Instagram, Chrissy Metz also twits regularly @ChrissyMetz.

In the movie 'American Horror Story: Freak Show' Chrissy Metz played the role of Ima Wiggles and she became very happy to learn that she was going to be putting on a fat suit in order to showcase the character well. In an interview she granted to Yahoo TV, Chrissy Metz said that she was surprised that despite her size, she wasn't big enough for the suit. It obviously made her look entirely like a new person on the screen because of its huge size. Chrissy Metz, in addition to putting on that fat suit, was again required to play a role she appears not to have much experience in - playing the guitar. She said she has tried several times to learn about the guitar at least to make it look that truly she was playing it on the screen but that she just couldn't grasp it. The same character she portrayed in 'American Horror Story: Freak Show' was actually required to lose her weight too and that seemed like an adventure that was to go well with her. That's because, in real life, she too has been working hard to shed some pounds. However, she had to come out later to clear the air on the misconception that she said losing her weight was part of the contract for the role. In Chrissy Metz's clarifications, she said she never meant to imply that losing her weight was a precondition for taking on the role but that it was the character in the movie that was required to shed her weight.

In the Series 'This Is Us,' the character that Chrissy Metz played (Kate Pearson) turned out to be 36 years old the same day Metz also turned 36. That makes the series look like it was patterned or written to reflect her life in the first place. Everyone who took the lead role never knew that this is how it was going to be but on September 29, 2016, when Chrissy was supposed to be 36 years old, the three children which are also known as The Big three turned 36 years old in the series. The cast members took turns to wish Metz a happy birthday and threw a party to celebrate her. Chrissy Metz herself confessed that prior to that birthday, she had always maintained a low key but that she was glad this has been done for her. Many of her 36th birthday pictures are uploaded to her Instagram page.

Not too long after "the pilot" was aired, there were some complaints by some people on the social media namely Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter that Kate's story was just to stereotypic. So, in an interview that Metz granted to SheKnows.com, Chrissy Metz said she could identify with those complaints but that the story has some real-life bases. She went further to say that Dan Fogelman’s (the series creator) sister was the one depicted as "Kate" in 'This Is Us.' She has actually been struggling with her weight in real life and the series was to portray how life can be for individuals whose sense of self-worth depends largely on what the reading on the scale says. As the story goes, Kate was scheduled to undergo a surgical operation to get rid of the fat. People have been asking Chrissy Metz if she too was going to replicate that in real life and go for surgery to remove the fat. Metz did not miss words in denouncing any thought of doing so. She said she is satisfied with the way she is and that there is never a need for surgery. anything. She, however, said she is not against any plus-size person going for surgery as each person's story differs.

Chrissy Metz, among other things has been able to tell the world and people like herself that a person's reading on the scale does not have to determine his/her self-worth. That is, you can be fat and huge and still be relevant. Be that as it may, Chrissy Metz still works on her weight to see if she could get rid of some of the fats. She does this by regular exercises. However, whether she is successful in doing that or not, she has come to term with herself, that is, she now accepts and loves herself. It is remarkable to note as Metz herself has rightly noted that plus-size people are usually made laughing stock in movies and series and in all honesty, that may not be appropriate enough. There is certainly a lot to learn and know from people like this other than their size. However, unless they too begin to write stories where fat people make an impact and contribute meaningfully to life, they may have to contend with the satirical role often assigned to them in movies. We should give it up for Chrissy Metz as she is brave. Her net worth reveals a promising future despite her challenges. If she refuses to give in to societal sentiments and still push on, chances her that her name would soon be written with gold in the Hollywood. She would have to keep exercising and eating rightly. Metz herself has made it clear that she is putting romance aside for now and hoping to work on herself and career. Perhaps, no decision can be better than that. If she gets heartbroken by insincere men who probably would be after her for the money and fame, she can become very bitter with her life and her career too might be affected. The breakout star in 'This Is Us' has the sky as her starting point if she keeps believing in herself. And contrary to the many rumors making the rounds on various online sites, the reason for her plus-size hasn't been made public yet.