Christopher's father is from a Catholic family, of half Polish, three eighths French-Canadian, and one eighth Irish, descent. Christopher's mother is from a Jewish family (from Austria, Hungary, Russia, Germany, and Poland). Through his mother, Christopher is a second cousin, three times removed, of politician
Barry Goldwater, who was the Republican nominee for President in 1964. Christopher's maternal great-great-great-great-grandparents, Hirsch Goldwasser and Scheindel-Chawe/Fravda, were also Barry Goldwater's paternal great-grandparents.