Tyler Christopher is an American actor. He is best known for his role as Nikolas Cassadine and Connor Bishop on the ABC soap opera General Hospital. Christopher was born in Joliet, Illinois and grew up in Delaware, Ohio, the youngest of four children. He is of Native American heritage, as his mother Jimi-Ann is Choctaw and his father Jim Baker is Seneca. He attended Ohio Wesleyan University for two years and then moved to Los Angeles.