Which actor played the lawyer Jackie Chiles on "Seinfeld"?

Phil Morris played the lawyer Jackie Chiles on "Seinfeld." Chiles is Cosmo Kramer's flamboyant attorney, known for grandiloquent courtroom language and comic confidence.

The character first appeared in the season-seven episode "The Maestro," which aired in 1995, and returned several times through the show's ninth and final season. Chiles often represents Kramer in legal trouble, including disputes that become increasingly absurd as the story unfolds.

Jackie Chiles was created as a parody of attorney Johnnie Cochran. The resemblance is deliberate: both are stylish, mustachioed Black lawyers with commanding courtroom personas and polished public images. Chiles's famously exaggerated phrases—such as describing situations as "outrageous, egregious, preposterous"—became part of the joke.

Phil Morris had a long acting career beyond "Seinfeld." He was born into a family of performers; his father, Greg Morris, was known for the original "Mission: Impossible" television series. The character is sometimes confused with real-life lawyers who inspired the parody, but Morris—not Johnnie Cochran—played Jackie Chiles.