Background
Chinlund was born in New York City.
Chinlund was born in New York City.
He attended the Friends Seminary in Lower Manhattan, later moving to Albany, New York in order to participate in Albany High School"s varsity basketball program
Chinlund had designs on further pursuing basketball at Brown University and majoring in history, but was sidelined with a shoulder injury. The resulting injury left a two-inch scar on his left shoulder. Chinlund guest starred on The X-Files second season episode "Irresistible" playing serial killer Donnie Pfaster, for which he garnered major critical acclaim.
In 2000 he had a small role in episode one of Gilmore Girls.
In 2002 he had a recurring role in two episodes of Buffy The Vampire Slayer: "Listening to Fear" and "Into the Woods". In recent years, Chinlund has been seen in several independent projects, notably A Brother"s Kiss (1997).
A Brother"s Kiss was filmed in and around the neighborhood where Chinlund and Rosenfeld grew up. The film tells the story of two brothers, Lex (Chinlund) and Mick (Michael Raynor), who grow up in the hard streets of New New York
Chinlund continued in his long vein of independent features with roles in Chutney Popcorn (1999), Amy"s Orgasm (2001), Goodnight Joseph Parker (2004) and Sinner (2007).
Chinlund has starred in big-screen movies including Tears of the Sun (2003) with Bruce Willis, Con Air (1997) with Nicolas Cage, The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) with Vin Diesel and directed by David Twohy, who also directed Chinlund in the underwater thriller Below (2002), and Ultraviolet (2006) with Milla Jovovich. He also reprised his X-Files role as Donnie Pfaster for a seventh season episode called "Orison". Chinlund was also in Training Day with Denzel Washington, Eraser with Arnold Schwarzenegger and The Legend of Zorro with Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
Chinlund has also made guest appearances in the long-running television drama series Law & Order, as well as in its spinoff, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
As with his film roles, he played villainous roles in those two shows, most notably as a defense attorney and an unethical journalist in the original Law & Order, and a serial killer in Special Victims Unit. Chinlund also played an American-Indian Casino President and Chief Executive Officer, "Chief Doug Smith" in the fourth season episode "Christopher" of the hit Home Box Office original series, The Sopranos.
In 2009, he made an appearance on Castle in the first season episode "Home Is Where The Heart Stops". In 2010, he made an appearance on House in the sixth-season episode titled "The Down Low", playing a drug dealer named Eddie.