Chris Young (born April 28, 1971[1]) is an American former actor – best known for portraying child prodigy computer hacker Bryce Lynch in the Max Headroom series (1987–1988) – and entertainment executive.

Young's show business career started at the age of 15 when he played Bryce Lynch, a child computer hacker prodigy, in the Max Headroom science fiction television series.

[2][3] He worked in many other television shows and films, portraying Buckley "Buck" Ripley in She's Having a Baby and The Great Outdoors (both 1988),[citation needed] and voicing Rob in The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue (1997) and The Brave Little Toaster Goes to Mars (1998).

[citation needed] Young later went on to work at Nickelodeon, first as a producer at the Nickelodeon Animation Studio, and then as Executive Creative Director, Nickelodeon Animation Lab.

In 2017 he was appointed Senior Vice President in charge of the Nickelodeon Entertainment Lab, and ran it until the unit was closed in 2020.