Christopher Baffa

Christopher Baffa has worked in the motion picture industry for 25 years, following his 1990 graduation from the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. He began his career working in a variety of capacities within the electric and camera departments before achieving his first theatrical director of photography credit in 1994. Christopher has been quite fortunate in sharing his time between television projects and theatrical feature films.

He photographed Ryan Murphy's Running With Scissors, starring Annette Bening, Alec Baldwin, Gwenyth Paltrow, Brian Cox, and Joseph Fiennes, as well as the comedy Unaccompanied Minors, starring Lewis Black. Christopher's other feature film credits include the hit comedy Next Friday starring Ice Cube, Idle Hands, with Seth Green and Jessica Alba, Suicide Kings starring Christopher Walken, Henry Thomas, and Denis Leary, and the independent films Growing Up and Other Lies and The Road Within.

His television credits included the NBC series Crossbones starring John Malkovich, the pilot and subsequent seven seasons of FX Network's Golden Globe winning drama Nip/Tuck, the pilot and first three seasons of the multi award-winning series Glee, as well as the first season of the VH-1 series Hit The Floor. He also photographed the pilot episodes for TNT's original dramatic series The Closer, starring Kyra Sedgwick, as well as FX's drama American Horror Story starring Jessica Lange.

Christopher was awarded Variety's Ten Cinematographers To Watch Award in 1999, and honored with an invitation to become a member of the American Society of Cinematographers in the spring of 2007.

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