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Chris Addison(I)

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Chris Addison
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Born in Cardiff, Chris Addison grew up in Manchester where he attended the Manchester Grammar School before going on to study at the University of Birmingham. Following his graduation in 1994, he put ambitions to direct theatre on hold and "drifted into stand-up comedy" which became his full-time job in 1996. He wrote and performed eight one-man shows at the Edinburgh Festival, gaining two Perrier Award nominations and going on to turn two of the shows ('The Ape That Got Lucky' and 'Civilization') into series for BBC Radio.

He moved into acting in 2005, with the role of Ollie Reeder in Armando Iannucci's BBC sitcom The Thick of It (2005). Subsequent roles have included the Cameron-esque evil headmaster David Blood in three series of Skins (2007), Seb in Doctor Who (2005) and the hard-living porn Svengali Tony Power in Michael Winterbottom's movie The Look of Love (2013). In 2016 he took and co-wrote the spoken role of Smith in Emanuel Chabrier's opera 'L'Étoile' at The Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.

During the final series of The Thick of It (2005), he made his directorial debut and subsequently went on to direct many episodes of HBO's Veep (2012), for which he won the Directors Guild of America Award in 2016 as well as an Emmy nomination. In 2015 he won an Emmy for his work as Executive Producer on the show.

He has co-created two sitcoms, Lab Rats (2008) (with Carl Cooper) and Trying Again (2014) (with Simon Blackwell), both of which he starred in.

Chris has written two books, 'Cautionary Tales for Grown-Ups' (a book of comic verse) and 'It Wasn't Me' (a book of grumpy complaint).
BornNovember 5, 1971
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  • Won 2 Primetime Emmys
    • 4 wins & 9 nominations total

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At the 2016 HBO Emmy after-party.
Jo Joyner (Meg) and Chris Addison (Matt), Trying Again.
Chris Addison, Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala.
Chris Addison and Kate Lindsey in L'Étoile, Royal Opera House, London.
Chris Addison (Tony Power), Imogen Poots (Debbie Raymond) and Steve Coogan (Paul Raymond), The Look of Love
Chris Addison and Peter Capaldi
Chris Addison in Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans (2019)
Peter Capaldi and Chris Addison in The Thick of It (2005)
Chris Addison and Olivia Poulet in The Thick of It (2005)
Chris Addison in The Thick of It (2005)
Chris Addison in The Thick of It (2005)
Chris Langham, James Smith, and Chris Addison in The Thick of It (2005)

Known for

Peter Capaldi in The Thick of It (2005)
The Thick of It
8.7
TV Series
  • Director
In the Loop (2009)
In the Loop
7.4
  • Toby Wright
  • 2009
Mock the Week (2005)
Mock the Week
7.8
TV Series
  • Self(archive footage)
Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Veep (2012)
Veep
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TV Series
  • Director

Credits

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Director

  • Hallelujah!
    • Director
    • Pre-production
  • Martin Freeman, Daisy Haggard, Alex Eastwood, and Eve Prenelle in Breeders (2020)
    Breeders
    • Director
    • TV Series
    • 2020–2022
  • Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson in The Hustle (2019)
    The Hustle
    • Director
    • 2019
  • Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair in Playing House (2014)
    Playing House
    • Director
    • TV Series
    • 2017
  • Lucille Soong, Randall Park, Constance Wu, Forrest Wheeler, Ian Chen, and Hudson Yang in Fresh Off the Boat (2015)
    Fresh Off the Boat
    • Director
    • TV Series
    • 2017
  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus in Veep (2012)
    Veep
    • Director
    • TV Series
    • 2013–2016
  • Peter Capaldi in The Thick of It (2005)
    The Thick of It
    • Director
    • TV Series
    • 2012

Actor

  • Martin Freeman, Daisy Haggard, Alex Eastwood, and Eve Prenelle in Breeders (2020)
    Breeders
    • Psychiatrist (voice, uncredited)
    • TV Series
    • 2020
  • Kim Cattrall, Rupert Graves, Derek Jacobi, Alexander Armstrong, Nick Frost, Lee Mack, Craig Roberts, Alex Macqueen, Kate Nash, Emilia Jones, and Sebastian Croft in Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans (2019)
    Horrible Histories: The Movie - Rotten Romans
    • Colin (Reporter)
    • 2019
  • Patriot (2015)
    Patriot
    • James Clifford
    • TV Series
    • 2018
  • Bradley Walsh, Jodie Whittaker, Tosin Cole, and Mandip Gill in Doctor Who (2005)
    Doctor Who
    • Seb
    • TV Series
    • 2014
  • Trying Again (2014)
    Trying Again
    • Matt
    • TV Series
    • 2014
  • Steve Coogan, Anna Friel, Tamsin Egerton, and Imogen Poots in The Look of Love (2013)
    The Look of Love
    • Tony Power
    • 2013
  • Peter Capaldi in The Thick of It (2005)
    The Thick of It
    • Oliver Reeder
    • TV Series
    • 2005–2012
  • Skins (2007)
    Skins
    • David Blood
    • TV Series
    • 2010–2012
  • In the Loop (2009)
    In the Loop
    • Toby Wright
    • 2009
  • Lab Rats (2008)
    Lab Rats
    • Dr. Alex Beenyman
    • TV Series
    • 2008

Writer

  • The Dublin Trilogy
    • script writer
    • In Development
    • TV Series
  • Martin Freeman, Daisy Haggard, Alex Eastwood, and Eve Prenelle in Breeders (2020)
    Breeders
    • co-created by
    • created by (creator)
    • TV Series
    • 2020–2022
  • Trying Again (2014)
    Trying Again
    • creator
    • TV Series
    • 2014
  • Chris Addison in Chris Addison: Live (2011)
    Chris Addison: Live
    • written by
    • Video
    • 2011
  • My Funniest Year
    • written by
    • TV Series
    • 2011
  • Lab Rats (2008)
    Lab Rats
    • writer
    • TV Series
    • 2008
  • 2004: The Stupid Version (2004)
    2004: The Stupid Version
    • additional material
    • TV Movie
    • 2004
  • Revolver (2001)
    Revolver
    • written by
    • TV Series
    • 2004
  • Harry Hill in TV Burp (2001)
    TV Burp
    • additional material
    • TV Series
    • 2002
  • In-development projects at IMDbPro

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Personal details

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  • Height
    • 6′ 2″ (1.88 m)
  • Born
    • November 5, 1971
    • Cardiff, Wales, UK
  • Spouse
    • ?2001 - present (2 children)
  • Other works
    TV commercial (with Alexander Armstrong) for "Direct Line" car insurance
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    Is an 11-year Edinburgh Fringe veteran.
  • Quotes
    Everybody mocks Daleks but they're somehow astonishingly scary. I put this down to the way they have no faces - you just don't know their thoughts. Also, they seem to have phlegm in their throats, which is no doubt because they've no faces to spit it out with. I like the flashing lights on top of their heads, they look like menacing versions of those vans laying out cones on motorways at night.

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