Oliver Chris

Oliver Chris
Born	Oliver Graham Chris (1978-11-02) 2 November 1978 Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
Education	Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys, Kent Michael Hall (independent Steiner School), East Sussex
Alma mater	Central School of Speech and Drama, London Birkbeck College, University of London
Years active	2000–present

Oliver Graham Chris (born 2 November 1978 in Tonbridge, Kent) is an English actor. He has appeared in a range of television series and TV films and on the stage, including theatrical productions in London's West End and Broadway in New York City.

Early life

Chris passed his Eleven plus exam and attended Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys before moving to the Michael Hall Steiner School in his fourth year. He later attended the Central School of Speech and Drama. In 2005 he completed an evening class at Birkbeck College and was subsequently accepted for a degree course in history, politics and philosophy.

Career

Chris has appeared in several comedy series, including The Office, Green Wing, According to Bex, Nathan Barley, The IT Crowd, Rescue Me and Bluestone 42.

In 2004, Chris re-wrote the lyrics to the Beatles' "Let It Be" to a song about the England football player Wayne Rooney and recorded it in collaboration with the actor Stephen Campbell Moore and a number of other actors and journalists. The song was reprised and re-recorded, with rewritten lyrics, for the 2006 Fifa World Cup and became a hit on YouTube, with 200,000 hits.

Chris has also narrated most of the Alex Rider series of audiobooks by Anthony Horowitz, although Dan Stevens replaced him as reader for "Snakehead", "Crocodile Tears" and "Scorpia Rising".

In early 2006, Chris played the role of Captain Leonard in Sharpe's Challenge, starring Sean Bean, while 2007 has seen him in the TV comedy Bonkers, written by Sally Wainwright as well as Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew at the Wilton's Music Hall. In 2006 he also appeared as Christian in Cyrano de Bergerac at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester. He later appeared in Peter Hall's production of The Portrait of a Lady. He made his West End debut in late 2008 in Lisa Kron's comedy, Well. In 2010 he appeared alongside Judi Dench in Hall's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Rose Theatre, Kingston.

Chris was also cast in Ben Miller's feature-length debut comedy film Huge, which premiered in June 2010. 2011 has seen him appear in two episodes of Silent Witness, whilst also playing one of the leading roles in the National Theatre production of One Man, Two Guvnors alongside James Corden. He appeared in three series of the BBC Three comedy Bluestone 42, about a British bomb disposal detachment in Afghanistan. He also played Dr Richard Truscott in the ITV medical drama series Breathless, set in the 1960s, which ran for one series from October 2013.

From 2014 to 2016, Chris played Prince William in the play King Charles III, appearing in the West End and on Broadway. In May 2017, he appeared in the same role in the BBC Two film adaptation.

February to May 2017 Chris was playing Orsino in a new production of Twelfth Night at the Royal National Theatre. He is due to play Friedrich Engels in Richard Bean and Clive Coleman's new play Young Marx, the opening production at the Bridge Theatre in December 2017.

Filmography

Film and television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Lorna Doone	Charley Doone	TV film
2001	The Office	Ricky Howard	6 episodes
2002	The Gathering	Brett
	Rescue Me	Luke Chatwin	Series regular
	The Real Jane Austen	Tom Lefroy
2003	The Other Boleyn Girl	Henry Percy	TV film
	Casualty	Tim Lasky	1 episode: "The Point of No Return"
	Sweet Medicine	Geoff	Episode 1.8
	Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster	Percy Bysshe Shelley	TV film
2004	Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason	Director in Gallery
2004–2006	Green Wing	Boyce	18 episodes
2005	Nathan Barley	Max Herbert	Series regular
	According to Bex	Ryan
2006	The IT Crowd	Daniel Carey	1 episode: 'Fifty-Fifty'
	Sharpe's Challenge	Leonard	TV film
	Tripping Over	Sam	4 episodes
	Corpse	Kevin Brown	Short film
2007	Bonkers	Marcus Lewis	Series regular
	Phineas and Ferb	Mr. Macabre (voice)	"Terrifying Tri-State Trilogy of Terror"
2008	Fairy Tales	Vukoosin Ergovich	TV mini-series, 1 episode: 'Rapunzel'
	Hotel Babylon	David Duncan	Episode 3.1
2009	FM	Matt Kyle	1 episode: 'Blinded by the Light'
2010	Huge	Darren	Post-production
2011	Silent Witness	Dr. James Sabiston	2 episodes
	One Man, Two Guvnors	Stanley Stubbers
2013	Bluestone 42	Captain Nick Medhurst, ATO	Series regular
	Breathless	Dr. Richard Truscott
2015	The Scandalous Lady W	Viscount Deerhurst	TV film
2017	King Charles III	Prince William	TV film

Motherland (BBC series) Julia’s husband

Theatre

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Theatre
2002	The Importance of Being Ernest	Algernon	Royal Theatre (Northampton)
2007	The Taming of the Shrew	Petruchio	Wilton's Music Hall
2007	Cyrano de Bergerac	Christian	Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester
2008	The Portrait of a Lady	Goodwood	UK Tour
2010	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Nick Bottom	Rose Theatre
2011	One Man, Two Guvnors	Stanley Stubbers	Royal National Theatre, (Lyttelton Stage) + UK 2011 Tour + Adelphi Theatre + Broadway
2014-2016	King Charles III	William	Almeida Theatre,+ Wyndham's Theatre,+ Broadway
2014	Great Britain	Asst. Commissioner Donald Doyle Davidson	Royal National Theatre (Lyttleton stage)
2017	Twelfth Night	Orsino	Royal National Theatre,Olivier Stage
2017	Young Marx	Friedrich Engels	Bridge Theatre

External links

• Oliver Chris at IMDb