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Chris Reilly

Christopher Francis Reilly (born in Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish actor.

Chris Reilly began acting in 2009 age 31, and studied at Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama with a Screen Academy Wales Bursary.

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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.

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