Chris Bruno

Chris Bruno is an American actor, director and producer best known as Sheriff Walt Bannerman in the television drama The Dead Zone. Born in 1966, he studied theater in college and soon after graduating took the role of Dennis Carrington Wheeler on the soap opera Another World, which brought him a Soap Opera Award nomination for outstanding newcomer. A second soap part, on All My Children, was followed by stand-up comedy and guest spots on sitcoms such as The Nanny and Suddenly Susan. He was cast in The Dead Zone in 2001, when its premiere drew the highest ratings then recorded for a cable series debut, and he directed an episode in the fifth season. Later credits include The World's Fastest Indian (2005), with Anthony Hopkins, the film Prison Break: The Final Break (2009), and the voice of Jack Slate in the video game Dead to Rights. He has also competed as a professional MMA fighter.