Chris Reilly

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Chris Reilly
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Born
Christopher Francis Reilly

Glasgow, Scotland
NationalityScottish
OccupationActor
Years active2009–present
Height5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Website chrisreilly.me.uk

Christopher Francis Reilly (born in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish actor.

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Career

Chris Reilly began acting in 2009 age 31, and studied at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama [1] with a Screen Academy Wales Bursary.

Most Recent Work:

Chris Reilly is the 2018 BAFTA Scotland Winner for Best Actor in a Television Drama for his Role as Alex Baxter in BBC1's "The Last Post". He starred alongside Jessie Buckley, Jessica Raine, Ben Miles, Tom Glyn Carney and Stephen Campbell Moore. In accepting his award he called for focus on industry access for working class young people, having benefited himself from a Screen Academy Wales (sponsored by BAFTA Cymru) bursary while at Welsh College. He dedicated his award to Marilyn Le Conte, Head of Radio Drama at RWCMD. [3]

Throughout 2018 Chris was working on The Feed for Amazon Prime Filming in Manchester and Liverpool. He is Lead cast as Gil Tomine, Also Cast are David Thewlis and Michelle Fairley , and is filming "Devils" in Rome for Sky Italia and Lux Vide playing Alex Vance with Patrick Dempsey .

Chris Reilly is also billed as lead cast in BANG! (BBC3 and S4C) He plays Ray in an English/Welsh language drama in the Scandi Noir style, Written by Roger Williams. The show has won multiple awards including Best Drama and Best Editor in the 2018 BAFTA Cymru (Wales) awards. The Cast Includes Jack Parry-Jones who won Best Actor in a Film at the same awards for his role in Moon Dogs. Chris Reilly is currently working with the same production team on "Concrete Plans", Billed as a Neo-Western Set in the Wild West Wales.

Chris Reilly is the only actor to play more than one scripted role in Game of Thrones . He is credited in S2E10 as Soldier Tom and S4E01 as Morgan Lanister. [4]

Early in his filmography, Chris Reilly had second billing behind Julian Ovenden in his first feature British Independent film Allies (2014) by Happy Hour Films [5] – a Bristol-based production company and distributed in the UK and the US (February 2015) By EOne, and a supporting role in Working Title's studio film Everest (2015), as Klev Schoening, alongside Jake Gyllenhaal and Keira Knightley in the true story of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster (Klev was the nephew of mountaineer Pete Schoening).

In theatre, Chris has appeared in works at Shakespeare's Globe, The National Theatre of Scotland, the Royal Court Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, Sheffield Theatre, Everyman Liverpool and Piccolo Teatro - Milan.

Before he began his professional career, at the age of 31 he ran a homeless service in Glasgow. [6]

Filmography

Film

YearTitleRoleNotes
2021 Wrath of Man Tom
2019 Official Secrets Jerry
2016 Allied Hendon Gate Guard
2015 Everest Klev Schoening
2014 The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Dwarf Lieutenant
2014 Allies Sergeant Harry McBain

Television

Year(s)TitleRoleNotes
2022
2016
2015
Call The Midwife Bernie Mullucks
2022
2023
Slow Horses Nick Duffy
2020 Industry Duncan Hicks
2020 The Head Nils Hedlund
2020 Devils Alex Vance
2019 The Feed Gil Tomine
2019 Curfew Clarence
2017 The Last Post Sergeant Alex BaxterWinner BAFTA (Scotland) Best Actor
Bang!Ray Murray
2016 Rillington Place Arthur
2015 Moving On Tony Doyle
2014
2012
Game of Thrones Morgan Lanister
Soldier Tom
2014 Shetland Alan Isbister
2014 Suspects Jeff Patterson
2014 Our World War Dodds
2014 Atlantis Leon
2013 Silent Witness Sean NugentEpisode: "Greater Love"
2012 Homefront Sergeant Tom Raveley
2012 EastEnders Andy
2011 Doctors Ed Harman

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