Chris Owens

Chris Owens is a Canadian actor who has worked in many feature films, typically in small roles. His film credits include Cocktail (1988) and The Recruit (2003). He is best known for the television series The X-Files. In 1996 he played the younger Cigarette Smoking Man, William B. Davis's character, and he returned in that part in the 1997 episode Demons. That same year he took the role of the Frankenstein-like Great Mutato in The Post-Modern Prometheus. In 1998 he was cast as special agent Jeffrey Spender, credited as Also Starring, and he appeared in eight episodes over the fifth and sixth seasons before the character was killed by his father. Owens returned in the 2002 episode William and in the finale The Truth, and later in the 2018 season premiere My Struggle III. He was nominated for a 2002 Genie Award for The Uncles.