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| Oliver Chris | |
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| Born | 2 November 1978 Tunbridge Wells, England |
| Years active | 2000-present |
Oliver Chris (born 2 November 1978) is an English actor from Tunbridge Wells. He is 6ft 3in (190 cm) tall and studied at Michael Hall Steiner School followed by the Central School of Speech and Drama.
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.[1]
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 so far.
In 2005, he appeared on the chat show Heads Up with Richard Herring and discussed his life, career and love of poker.
He has also orated most of the "Alex Rider" series of audiobooks by Anthony Horowitz, although Dan Stevens replaced him as reader for Snakehead. It is as yet unknown whether Chris will return to perform the rest of the series.
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.[2][3]
References
- ^ Perry, Harriet (20 July 2008). "My hols: Oliver Chris". The Times. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/news/article4356981.ece. Retrieved 2009-05-11.
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