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Chris Reilly
Born
NationalityScottish
OccupationActor
Years active2009–present
Height5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Websitewww.chrisreilly.me.uk

Chris Reilly is a Scottish character actor.

Career

Reilly began acting at the age of 31. Spotlight, the standard resource used by UK agents and casting directors, lists Reilly as having 49 professional credits[1] since 2009, the year of his graduation from Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.[2]

IMDb credits him 14 times with multiple roles in Game of Thrones (the only actor to play more than one scripted role in the series) and Lead or regular parts in many British TV shows shown domestically and worldwide.

Including Recurring or Regular roles in: Atlantis BBC, Game of Thrones HBO, Silent Witness BBC, Homefront ITV, Eastenders BBC, and Doctors BBC.

And lead guest roles : Our World War BBC, and Shetland BBC.

Reilly has second billing in British Independent film (Allies – 2014) by Happy Hour Films[3] – a Bristol-based production company and distributed in the UK and the US (Feb 2015) By EOne, and a supporting role in Working Title's studio film Everest (2015), as Klev Schoening, alongside Jake Gyllenhall and Kiera Knightley in the true story of the 1996 disaster (Klev was the nephew of mountaineer Pete Schoening), and the third film in the Hobbit series (The Battle of the Five Armies – 2014) as "Dwarf Lieutenant".

He began his professional career at the age of 31 after attending RWCMD, a music conservatoire and drama school in Cardiff Wales before which he ran a homeless service in Glasgow.[4]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2013 Xanadu Window Cleaner
2014 Allies Sergeant Harry McBain
2014 The Devil Went Down to Islington Terry
2014 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Dwarf Lieutenant
2015 Everest Klev Schoening

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2010
2011
Doctors Ed Harman
2012 EastEnders Andy
2012 Homefront Sergeant Tom Raveley
2013 Silent Witness Sean Nugent
2014 Shetland Alan Isbister
2012
2014
Game of Thrones Morgan
Soldier Tom
2014 Suspects Jeff Patterson
2014 Our World War Dodds
2017 The Last Post Sergeant Alex Baxter

References

  1. ^ "Chris Reilly Spotlight". Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  2. ^ "Chris Reilly Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama profile". Archived from the original on 4 November 2014. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ "Happy Hour's First Feature Film, Allies, premieres in Derby".
  4. ^ ""Chris Reilly, Actor"".