Craig J. Harris is a talented actor, brilliant voiceover artist and an accomplished, award winning screenwriter. A Chicago native, Harris began writing with the hope of bringing diverse roles to film, television and theatre. Movies produced from Harris’ scripts have received Five Emmy Awards, a Telly Award, an AFTRA American Scene Award and a Proctor & Gamble Dreambuilder Celebration Scribe Award.

Critics describe Harris’ nationally aired television screenplay, Skin Complex, a provocative, innovative and cleverly crafted story dealing with race relations, as a “thought provoking premise”…”it is one of the more provocative and daring ways to deal with race issues”…”Skin Complex breaks the mold, working on several levels as a bit of science fiction and a search for self discovery.” Harris also served as the head writer of Stories from the Soul, a TV anthology series produced by Masequa Myers and Associates for veteran actor, writer and producer Robert Townsend.

As an actor, Harris has numerous film (Fred Claus, Let's Go to Prison, Barbershop 2, Dee Dee Rutherford), TV ( FOX-TV’s Prison Break, CBS-TV’s Early Edition, Dick Wolf’s Arrest & Trial) and theatrical (The Meeting, Parting, Love’s Light in Flight) credits. Harris studied and performed on the stages of the Second City Theater, ImprovOlympic, Victory Gardens Theater and ETA Theater in Chicago.

Harris who has voiced countless commercials and video games, has lent his rich vocal talents to voice numerous commercials for well known clients including Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, Allstate, Kellogg’s, KFC, Proctor & Gamble, OnStar, US Bank and Western Union, may be best known as the character voice of Lt. Jackson “Jax” Briggs in Midway Games’ Mortal Kombat video game series.

Harris is an active member of the Screen Actors Guild, The American Federation on Television and Radio Artists, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and the Illinois Production Alliance.