Chris Reilly


Christopher Francis Reilly 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 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 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! 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 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 by Happy Hour Films – a Bristol-based production company and distributed in the UK and the US By EOne, and a supporting role in Working Title's studio film Everest, as Klev Schoening, alongside Jake Gyllenhaal and Keira Knightley in the true story of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster.
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.