Chris Walley

Quick Facts

Full Name	Chris Walley
Occupation	TV Actor
Date Of Birth	Jun 21, 1995(1995-06-21)
Age	29
Birthplace	Cork
Country	Ireland
Birth City	County Cork
Horoscope	Gemini

Chris Walley Biography

Chris Walley is one of the most popular and richest TV Actor who was born on June 21, 1995 in Cork, County Cork, Ireland. Irish actor who played Jock O’Keeffe in the television and film adaptations of The Young Offenders. His performance won him the IFTA Award.

He was in the film alongside He starred alongside Alex Murphy in The Young Offenders. in The Young Offenders.

Prior to commencing third level education, Walley had auditioned for and won a role in an independent Irish film, set to be based and filmed locally in Cork. The resulting film, The Young Offenders, written and directed by Peter Foott, became the fastest Irish film to break the €1 million mark at the Irish box office in 2016. For his role as Jock, Walley was nominated for numerous awards, including the IFTA for Best Supporting Actor. With the popularity of the film, on 9 May 2017, it was confirmed that a six-episode television programme, based on the film with the same name, had been ordered by RTÉ. The first series began broadcasting on 1 February 2018, broadcast by RTÉ Two in Ireland and airing through the online television service BBC Three. With a popular and high reception, the series was recommissioned for a second series, the projected release date was not disclosed. For his role in the television series, Walley was awarded the IFTA for Best Male Performance – Television.

In 2018 Walley was cast alongside Aidan Turner in a revival of Martin McDonagh’s play The Lieutenant of Inishmore, which opened at the Noël Coward Theatre in June of that same year. For his performance, Walley received exceptional reviews, with TimeOut London writing, ‘in a uniformly strong cast, special praise should go to Walley. A virtual newcomer, he is excruciatingly brilliant as the mullet-clad Davey, who meets each new indignity heaped upon him with an impressive mix of resignation and hysteria’, Broadway World saying that, ‘you would never be able to guess this is his West End debut’, and The New York Times stating, ‘Chris Walley … effortlessly conveys the illogical logic and perverse mundanity of the dialogue’. For this performance Walley was nominated for the Evening Standard Emerging Talent Award, and was selected as a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit, an initiative established by the British Academy of Film and Television Awards to foster the talents of up-and-coming members of the arts world by offering them mentorship for a year.

Great-grandfather William Norton was Irish Labour Party politician William Norton.

Chris Walley Net Worth

Chris Walley is one of the richest TV Actor from Ireland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Chris Walley 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He attended classes at his school, the Gaiety School of Acting and the Cork School of Music. He was a part of the school’s Youth Theatre group. He was not able to pass his application to join at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and instead earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto in Drama and Theater studies at Cork School of Music.

He was a part of an stage revival of He appeared in a stage revival of Martin McDonagh‘s play The Lieutenant of Inishmore.’s production The Lieutenant of Inishmore.

Chris Walley (born 21 June 1995) is an Irish stage and screen actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Jock Murphy in the comedy film and RTÉ and BBC Three television series The Young Offenders, for which he received an IFTA Award among other nominations. He also portrayed Private Bullen in 1917

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Chris Ranked on the list of most popular TV Actor. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Ireland. Chris Walley celebrates birthday on June 21 of every year.