Trivia

When a publicity photo of Guest and his co-stars fromThis Is Spinal Tap (1984)ran in Rolling Stone magazine,Jamie Lee Curtissaw the picture, fell in love and gave her phone number to Guest's agent. They dated and eventually married.

When he went to pick up his Tesla car with wifeJamie Lee Curtis,the technician instructed them to check out the air conditioning and audio controls, each of which maxed out at "11." Apparently Tesla CEOElon Muskwas a huge fan of the filmThis Is Spinal Tap (1984)and had the controls exclusively customized for the couple.

In 2005, announced his intention to stop making mockumentary films, because he doesn't find them funny anymore.

Christopher dropped the Haden from his surname when he started going to acting auditions in his 20s; he thought it sounded long-winded and distracting.

Guest became the 5th Baron Haden-Guest, of Saling in the County of Essex, when his father died in 1996.

Older brother of actorNicholas Guest,who is heir presumptive to the family title. (As Christopher's children are adopted, they cannot inherit the barony).

He has been a skilled guitarist since the 1960s and has displayed his talents in both Spinal Tap projects andA Mighty Wind (2003).He actually became acquainted with frequent co-stars and on-screen band matesMichael McKeanandHarry Shearerat music venues before the three decided to make a career as comedic actors.

Christopher's father, Peter Haden-Guest, was a British hereditary lord, an actor, and a dancer, who ended up a UN diplomat. Christopher's father's family was a mix of English, Dutch Jewish, German Jewish, and Scottish ancestry (including distant American-born ancestors). Christopher's mother, Jean Pauline (Hindes), was the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants.

His idol growing up was comedianPeter Sellers.

Son-in-law ofTony CurtisandJanet Leigh.

Attended the House of Lords regularly until the passage of the House of Lords Act 1999 barred most hereditary peers from their seats.

Was introduced to his future wife,Jamie Lee Curtis,by her Halloween II co-star, Leo Rossi, at a mutual celebrity softball league.

His character fromThis Is Spinal Tap (1984),Nigel Tuffnel, is partially a spoof of British rockerJeff Beck

He has appeared in four films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant:The Hospital (1971),Girlfriends (1978),This Is Spinal Tap (1984)andThe Princess Bride (1987).

The five films that most influenced the director Christopher Guest:La strada (1954)-Federico Fellini,Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)-Stanley Kubrick,Broadway Danny Rose (1984)-Woody Allen,Cul-de-sac (1966)-Roman Polanski,Sherlock Jr. (1924)-Buster Keaton.

During an interview with his wifeJamie Lee Curtis,onThe Graham Norton Show (2007),she mentions that he drives a Tesla with both the volume and Air Con dials going all the way up to 11.

Half-brother of journalistAnthony Haden-Guest,the bibulous English socialite and journalist satirized byTom WolfeinThe Bonfire of the Vanities (1990).

Guest shoots 10-minute scenes to let the improvisations unfold organically and ends up with about 60 hours of film, which is then edited down over a year and a half to 90 minutes.

Has two adopted children: daughtersAnnie Guest(born in December 1986) andRuby Guest(born in March 1996). Under the terms of the letters patent that created the Barony of Haden-Guest, they cannot inherit the title, but they can use the courtesy title of the Honourable before their first names.

Alumnus ofStella AdlerStudio of Acting.

He is a seventh cousin of French actorJean-Pierre Aumont.They both descend from Abraham Casper de Vries Rofe and Marianne Asser-Shochet, who were Dutch Jews.

Brother-in-law of actressKelly CurtisandPamela Guest.

Was the muse for an Asian-American short comedic film entitledPax Importi Modellus: The Rise of the Import Model (2004), which has gained international attention.

Uncle ofElizabeth GuestandJulia Guest.

Lived in New York in the 1960s.