Chris Reilly

Chris Was born in Clydebank, just outside of Glasgow in Scotland. He began acting aged thirty and previous jobs include establishing and running a homeless shelter and housing support service in the house where he grew up. He is a Royal Welsh College graduate (2009) and now lives in North London. Chris acquired an interest in drama while running the homeless shelter distracting himself with amateur musical companies on stage and behind the scenes before doing several semi-pro plays with the Ramshorn Theatre and Strathclyde Theatre Group and performing with Glasgow Long-form (Harold) improvisation troupe "Q-Fusion" while working back-stage with Scottish Opera and Ballet in the Theatre Royal and Kings Theatre. He also did Extra work on a BBC soap River City filmed locally to gain screen experience. His first Job in Theatre was as ASM Understudy in Hobson's Choice for a tour out of Chichester, building the set at each tour venue and covering the main cast. A visit to Cardiff brought him to Royal Welsh College where he applied and was accepted the same year with a Screen Academy Wales Scholarship and a full bursary from the Scottish Government. Chris' first Screen credit is in River City - before Graduation. Executive Producer Sandra MacIver had seen him working on the lot one day as an extra and along with Director Dan Wilson offered him a two episode spot in the show. He was working on the day of Graduation from Royal Welsh College on new Welsh Medical Drama Crash after which he began working on BBC Soap Doctors in a semi-regular role for twenty two episodes via a short appearance on the BBC Drama "Five Daughters". Chris' Screen CV has credits from Dramas such as Game of Thrones, Call the Midwife, Silent Witness, Homefront and Our World War and Features such as Everest and Allies. He has averaged a play a year since leaving drama school, exclusively in new writing for front-line theaters such as The Royal Court, The Globe and The National Theatre of Scotland.