Oliver Chris Biography

Oliver Graham Chris (born 2 November 1978 in Tonbridge, Kent) is an English actor.

Early life

He 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

He has appeared in several comedy series, including The Office, Green Wing, According to Bex, Nathan Barley, The IT Crowd and Rescue Me. He appeared as the character Boyce in both the first and second series of Green Wing.

In 2004, he 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.

He 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 he 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 a drunken 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 then 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.

He 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 also appeared in three series of the BBC Three Comedy Bluestone 42 as Captain Nick Medhurst, first broadcast on 5 March 2013 on BBC Three. The comedy is 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 he played Prince William in the play King Charles III, appearing in the West End and on Broadway.

Filmography

Film and television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Lorna Doone	Charley Doone	TV film
2001	'	Ricky Howard	6 episodes
2002	'	Brett
	Rescue Me	Luke Chatwin	Series regular
	'	Tom Lefroy
2003	'	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