Christopher Anton Knight (born November 7, 1957) is an American actor and businessman. He is most notable for playing Peter Brady in the 1970s series The Brady Bunch. He has since gone on to become a businessman and enjoyed a semi-resurgence in the public eye with television appearances in the 2000s.
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Early life and work
Knight was born in New York City, New York, the son of Edward and Wilma Knight. Knight's father, an actor, was born Edward Kozumplik, to parents from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, while Knight's mother was Jewish.
Career
The Brady Bunch and other roles
Before the Brady Bunch series, Knight had some small television roles, including an appearance on the first season of Mannix, in a 1967 episode called "Coffin for a Clown". In 1969, Knight was cast as middle son Peter Brady on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch, which ran until 1974. He was also the voice of Peter in the ABC Saturday morning cartoon The Brady Kids (1972–74).
After the end of the Brady Bunch, Knight's acting career consisted mostly of making guest appearances on other television shows (Happy Days, The Love Boat), and occasional film roles (Just You and Me, Kid, Curfew, Good Girls Don't, The Doom Generation, and Nowhere). He reunited with his former Brady costars in several subsequent series, including The Brady Bunch Hour (1976–77), the TV movie The Brady Girls Get Married (1981), the holiday TV movie A Very Brady Christmas (1988), and the drama The Bradys (1990). He also had a cameo role as a coach in the film The Brady Bunch Movie (1995).
Computer career
In 1988, Knight, a self-described "geek", left acting for the information technology business. He was an account sales manager for Martec, Inc., and then Vice President of Design System Marketing and Sales at New Image Industry. In 1991, he co-founded Visual Software, and in 1995, he founded Kidwise Learningware. He subsequently worked for Adesso and iXMicro. In 1998, he founded his own TV tuner company, Eskape Labs; it was purchased by Hauppauge Computer Works in 2000.
Return to television
Continuing to pursue TV opportunities, Knight appeared on VH1's fourth season of The Surreal Life. The show garnered Knight more attention than he had received in quite some time. During his stint on the show, he began a romance with castmate model Adrianne Curry, winner of America's Next Top Model cycle 1. After the show, the two moved in together and got engaged, as documented on the VH1 series My Fair Brady, which premiered on September 11, 2005.
Knight participated in VH-1's retrospective miniseries I Love The '70s: Volume II. He, his family, and friends appeared on the season finale of NBC's Celebrity Family Feud on July 29, 2008.
During the 2008–09 television season, Knight hosted the syndicated game show Trivial Pursuit: America Plays. Between 2009 and 2012, he hosted a series of Jonathan Goodson-produced game show specials for the Michigan Lottery, Make Me Rich. Knight joined the other Brady Bunch cast members in the 2019 television series A Very Brady Renovation on HGTV. In 2021, he starred in the Lifetime Christmas movie Blending Christmas, alongside his Brady Bunch co-stars Barry Williams, Mike Lookinland, Susan Olsen, and Robbie Rist.
In 2022, Knight, Williams, and Lookinland competed in season eight of The Masked Singer as "Mummies". They were eliminated in the third episode, which aired as the October 3 "TV Theme Night" alongside Daymond John as "Fortune Teller".
On June 28, 2024, Knight appeared as a guest on Toon In With Me, which airs on MeTV.
Move into production
In 2019, Knight and Emmy-nominated producer Phil Viardo founded Former Prodigy Media, a production company based in Los Angeles. In 2023, the company released Truelove, an award winning documentary film about Callie Truelove, a teenager with Williams syndrome. Knight also appears in the film.
Personal life
Knight has been married four times. Knight proposed to his third wife, model and reality television personality Adrianne Curry, on the season finale of My Fair Brady, on VH1, which aired on November 6, 2005. The show was renewed for a second season that began in June 2006, and focused on the couple's wedding preparations. The couple wed in Curry's hometown of Joliet, Illinois, on May 29, 2006, in a gothic-style wedding. Knight's manager, Phil Viardo, told a celebrity gossip website on May 29, 2011 that Knight and Curry were announcing their separation. The date was the couple's fifth wedding anniversary. On February 2, 2012, on G4's Attack of the Show, Curry said the divorce had been finalized. He married his fourth wife, Cara Kokenes, in November 2016.