Noth tries to shed Mr Big image

Chris Noth, who for five years has played the dashing Mr Big in Sex And The City, is trying to shed that image by taking roles radically different from the big-city bachelor.

“Right now, I’m at work dismantling that whole image,” Noth told the New York Daily News. “I don’t want to go down as Mr Big. It becomes like a cartoon after a while. I want to move on.”

Part of his transition includes donning a toga to star in a television film, Caesar, about the Roman leader, and will also play an FBI agent in the film Bad Apple.

“I took Sex And The City to get away from being a detective,” said Noth, who previously was a regular in the long-running television series Law And Order.

“It’s been a great ride, but the party’s over for me.”