Career
Throughout the third season of the series Northrop regularly appeared as Sven—a character best known for his relationship with fellow MODE staffer Amanda Tanen, played by Becki Newton, which originally surfaced in episode #316 titled Things Fall Apart (Ugly Betty). In 2008, Northrop began collaborating with Japanese born director and close friend Takayuki Tanaka on a documentary project highlighting the six Japanese umpires currently working in professional baseball in the United States. Samurai Umpires in the United States of America, which screened at film festivals throughout Japan in 2010, is a documentary feature film produced by Chris Northrop with the cooperation of and licensing rights provided by Minor league baseball (MiLB).
Northrop makes his feature film debut as the principal character Death Metal Kid in the horror / thriller Camp Hope (film) aka Camp Hell released by Lionsgate on Digital Video Disc on August 9, 2011.
On March 16, 2012, Chris Northrop appeared in a television segment titled "Manitoba With Albinism Under Attack" on the American Broadcasting Company hidden camera news show Primetime: What Would You Do? According to Nielsen ratings, 5.50+ million viewers (adult 18-49) tuned in to watch this episode dealing with albinism discrimination, beating out National Broadcasting Company’s Grimm, CW’s Supernatural, and FOX’s Kitchen Nightmares. Northrop, an actor with albinism, acted out scenarios which dealt with bullying, and spoke candidly with American Broadcasting Company news correspondent John Quinones about albinism.