Oliver Graham Chris was born on 7 November 1978 and is an English actor.
19 Facts About Oliver Chris
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Oliver Chris has appeared in television series, TV films, and on the stage.
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Oliver Chris's work has included theatrical productions in London's West End and New York City's Broadway.
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Oliver Chris later graduated from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
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Oliver 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.
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In 2004, Oliver 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.
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Oliver Chris has 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.
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In early 2006, Oliver Chris played the role of Captain Leonard in Sharpe's Challenge, starring Sean Bean, while 2007 saw 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.
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Oliver Chris later appeared in Peter Hall's production of The Portrait of a Lady.
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Oliver Chris made his West End debut in late 2008 in Lisa Kron's comedy, Well.
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Oliver Chris was cast in Ben Miller's feature-length debut comedy film Huge, which premiered in June 2010.
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Oliver Chris appeared in three series of the BBC Three comedy Bluestone 42, about a British bomb disposal detachment in Afghanistan.
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Oliver Chris played Dr Richard Truscott in the ITV medical drama series Breathless, set in the 1960s, which ran for one series from October 2013.
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From 2014 to 2016, Oliver Chris played Prince William in the play King Charles III, appearing in the West End and on Broadway.
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Between February and May 2017, Oliver Chris played Orsino in a production of Twelfth Night at the Royal National Theatre.
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Oliver Chris played Friedrich Engels in Richard Bean and Clive Coleman's new play Young Marx, the opening production at the Bridge Theatre in December 2017.
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In 2019, Oliver Chris took on the roles of Oberon and Theseus in Nicholas Hytner's adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Bridge Theatre, London.
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Oliver Chris' writing credits include Ralegh: The Treason Trial, staged at the Winchester Great Hall and then the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in 2018 and Jack Absolute Flies Again, based on Sheridan's The Rivals, co-written with Richard Bean, due to be staged at the Olivier Theatre in 2020.
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Oliver Chris is the partner of actress Kate Phillips and they have a daughter.