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Chris Noth’s Mom Dies: The Actor Begins Investigating His Late Father’s Life

By Stacey Cole
Published on: 02:29 PST, May 30, 2016

Chris Noth lost his mom at the age of 92, according to People magazine. Jeanne Parr, who was one of the first female CBS correspondents, died on May 23, 2016.

In his interview with People, Chris Noth reacted to his mother’s death, saying that Parr lived “fiercely” full of courage and love, insisting that she was never satisfied with anything less than her dreams.

“And she wanted those same qualities for her children. She lived long and died surrounded by those she loved and who loved her.”

Chris Noth’s mom began her TV career in Madison, Wisconsin, after she landed a position at a local radio and TV station. And that’s when the talented woman was noticed by a CBS producer, who eventually invited her to be one of the first female CBS correspondents and offered to work in New York City.

At first, Parr worked as a weather broadcaster on The Jim Jensen Show, but then she secured a full-time news correspondent position at the TV network. She gave birth to Chris Noth at the age of 31, on November 13, 1954.

Chris Noth, who is currently 61 and is best known for his roles on The Good Wife and Sex and the City, has two siblings, Charles and Michael. Parr’s husband and the father of the three sons, Charles J. Noth, died in a car accident in 1965.

Parr worked at CBS throughout the 1960s, and she covered such breaking news as the Newark/New York riots in 1967 as well as the Republican National Convention in San Francisco. Chris Noth’s mother became so popular on CBS she even created her own talk show, The Jeanne Parr Show, in 1978.

Apart from her work on television, Parr also worked on documentaries and wrote the book The Superwives, in which she detailed the lives of wives of popular athletes.

Almost a month before his mother’s death, Chris Noth started investigating his late father‘s life. And as reported by the Chicago Tribune, it led him to the Chicago History Museum, where the Good Wife actor learned about the damage the Great Chicago Fire did to his family.

Chris Noth paid a visit to the museum as part of TLC show Who Do You Think You Are? which aired last month. Speaking to TLC, the Good Wife star examined one of the pictures of Chicago after the fire, which killed nearly 300 people and ruined the city.

“It’s like a bomb. I mean, it’s like Hiroshima just leveled [the city].”

Chris Noth was born in Madison, Wisconsin, but to this very day, he remembers his visits to his father’s family in Chicago when he was a kid. And now that Noth has a son of his own, Orion, he wants the 8-year-old boy to find out about his granddad as well as his ancestors.

In fact, Chris Noth has already learned thanks to a Chicago-based genealogist that his great-grandparents lived on South Homan Avenue in the early 1900s. Moreover, he even found out about his great-great grandparents, who allegedly lived by the Chicago River until the Great Chicago Fire in 1871.

After the devastating fire, Chris Noth’s family lived in scattered homes on the prairie, the actor found out.

Speaking to John Russick, the museum’s vice president, Chris Noth said while examining one of Chicago’s photos taken after the fire that the city was “utterly destroyed.”

“From what you told me, Dennis and Ann and the children lived here in the 20th Ward. LaSalle Street is somewhere in here.”

Chris Noth said that after his visit to Chicago, he planned to go to the U.K. and Portugal to find out more about his roots.

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