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- Chris Sullivan is an award-winning Irish/British actor/writer/director. He trained in both classical and modern theatre at The Birmingham School of Speech Training & Dramatic Art and appeared in many leading roles in the British repertory system, in plays by William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Arden, Alan Ayckbourn, Neil Simon and others, before creating the role, to terrific national reviews, of "David" in the Brian Croucher-directed, Glenn Chandler controversial play, "A Treat", at London's Soho Poly Theatre: the West End's number one fringe venue. He didn't start his working life as an actor; before going to drama school, Chris had "the best job of his life" as a motor cyclist delivering telegrams for the post office in Birmingham, England and went on to stints as a fairground worker in Scotland - collecting the fares on the dodgem cars - a sales correspondent, a part time soldier in the Special Air Service (TA) and a labourer at a very hot bakery in Northamptonshire. In 1995, Chris decided to start again; he emigrated to Los Angeles with ten dollars in his pocket and plans to further his career and ended up doing a one-man Irish show - "A Bit of Irish" - which lasted for ten years, on and off, playing at the Edinburgh Festival, the Jermyn Street Theatre in London's West End, Santa Monica Playhouse in California and various Irish Fairs and colleges in the USA and provincial theatres in the UK. As well as penning two novels, Chris writes a blog called "The Storyteller", which is read all over the world which he describes as the ramblings of a Hollywood actor and novice novelist.- IMDb Mini Biography By: anonymous.
- Chris spent 16 years in Los Angeles where he starred in, wrote and directed 2 music videos. He also produced 2 movies which went into 'turnaround,' worked in at least 10 feature films, none of which he thinks will ever see the light of day, and dubbed many actor's voices in top feature films. His American theatrical debut was at The Santa Monica Playhouse where he won a Dramalogue Award in 1997. In the year 2000 he started his one man show, 'A Bit of Irish', at Santa Monica Playhouse, which he performed in various theatres, Irish fairs and colleges in both the USA and the UK till 2010. In June 2011 he said goodbye to the USA, and Santa Monica Playhouse, with his new play 'The 2 Sides of Eddie Ramone' which transferred to the Edinburgh Festival to terrific critical acclaim and at the time of writing he is in talks about transferring to a London theatre. Chris has written 2 novels 'Alfredo Hunter: the Man With the Pen' & 'Who Was Gertie Ford?' which he also narrated for the website Audible.com.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Justine Maxwell.
- SpouseMargaret(February 5, 1966 - present) (3 children)
- Appeared in a television commercial on top of Saint Paul's Cathederal in 1973 with Fred Griffiths.
- Worked on a motor bike as a telegram boy for the post office from the age of 16 to 18.
- With his brother, Pat, he worked for a short time on the Dodgem Cars at a fairground in Gullane, Scotland.
- His first public appearance was at The Town Hall Birmingham where he sang in the Schools' Choir and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
- In the 1960s, he passed the selection course for 23 SAS, one of the two SAS Territorial Army battalions.
- Martin Chuzzlewit (1995) - £1,000
- Lifeforce (1985) - £15,000
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