Christopher Francis Reilly (born in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish actor.
Career Chris Reilly began acting in 2009 age 31, and studied at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama with a Screen Academy Wales Bursary.
Most Recent Work: "Slow Horses" for Apple TV+ 3 Seasons as Nick Duffy in the Lead Cast. "Ellis" for Channel 5 (UK) Generation Z for Channel 4 (UK) Directed by Ben Wheatley. "The Head" for HBO Asia and Hulu Japan, filming in Tenerife and Iceland, a thriller set in an Arctic ice station. "Industry" for HBO "Wrath of Man" for Miramax/MGM and Guy Ritchie alongside Jason Statham, Scott Eastwood, Jeffrey Donovan and Laz Alonso.
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.
Chris plays "Nick Duffy" a top billed character in Apple TV's Emmy award winning "Slow Horses". Nick is the head of MI5s Internal police force known as "The Dogs" a set of enforcers tasked with executing difficult orders in times of crisis.
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 Lannister.
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 – 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.
Filmography
Film Year Title Role Notes2021Wrath of ManTom2019Official SecretsJerry2016AlliedHendon 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) Title Role Notes2026 202220162015Call The MidwifeBernie Mullucks20222023Slow HorsesNick Duffy2020IndustryDuncan Hicks2020The HeadNils Hedlund2020DevilsAlex Vance2019The FeedGil Tomine2019CurfewClarence2017 The Last Post Sergeant Alex Baxter Winner BAFTA (Scotland) Best ActorBang! Ray Murray 2016Rillington PlaceArthur2015Moving OnTony Doyle20142012 Game of ThronesMorgan LanisterSoldier Tom 2014 Shetland Alan Isbister 2014 Suspects Jeff Patterson 2014 Our World War Dodds 2014AtlantisLeon 2013 Silent Witness Sean Nugent Episode: "Greater Love" 2012 HomefrontSergeant Tom Raveley 2012 EastEnders Andy2011DoctorsEd Harman
References
External links Chris Reilly's Spotlight profile
Chris Reilly at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Chris Reilly website