Chris was born in Canada but grew up Belfast. He began acting under the guidance of an inspirational drama teacher at secondary school who put him on the path to becoming a professional actor. On leaving school he successfully auditioned for the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, graduating in 2000. Since then he has continued to fulfill his ambition of collaborating with the best directors in film, television and theatre in projects such as the award-winning The Magdalene Sisters, (Momentum) The Boxer, (Universal) Fifty Dead Men Walking, (Brightlight Pictures) Good Vibrations, (Revolver Films) 71 (Warp Films), Shooting for Socrates (New Black Films), Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie (Universal Pictures) and most recently High Rise Directed by Ben Wheatley
High-Rise
(Shopper)
SOS: The Titanic Inquiry
(Ernest Gill)
The Magdalene Sisters
(Brendan)
Good Vibrations
(Wolfgang Zorrer)
'71
(Older Loyalist)
Unquiet Graves
(UDR Man 1)
Shooting for Socrates
(Spud)
Fifty Dead Men Walking
(Tortured Tout)
Hamlet
(Laertes)
Knuckledust
(Not Now Nigel)
Halo: Nightfall
(Laban nier 2014 (uncredited))
Robert Kirkman's Secret History of Comics
(William Marston)
Ripper Street
(Samuel Gaddis)
Supernatural
(Neil)
Death and Other Details
(Charlie Holland)
Soft Border Patrol
(Kris Davis)
Billy the Kid
(Frank O'Connor)