Chris O'Dowd

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1979-10-09 (46 years old)

Place of Birth

Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland

Chris O'Dowd

Biography

Christopher O'Dowd (born 9 October 1979) is an Irish actor and comedian. He received wide attention as Roy Brenneman, one of the lead characters in the Channel 4 comedy The IT Crowd, which ran for four series from 2006 to 2010. He has starred in films including Gulliver's Travels (2010), Bridesmaids, Friends with Kids (2011), Cuban Fury (2014), Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) and The Cloverfield Paradox (2018). He created and starred in the Sky 1 television series Moone Boy, which aired from 2012 to 2015 and brought him Irish Film and Television Award nominations for acting, writing and directing. Since 2017, he has appear...

Acting

2004

Vera Drake

as Sid's Customer

2023

2010

Gulliver's Travels

as General Edward

2011

Bridesmaids

as Officer Rhodes

2013

2005

Festival

as Tommy O'Dwyer

2012

This Is 40

as Ronnie

2012

The Sapphires

as Dave Lovelace

2014

Calvary

as Jack Brennan

2022

My Father's Dragon

as Kwan the Macaque (voice)

2014

Cuban Fury

as Drew

2014

St. Vincent

as Brother Geraghty

2008

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

as Post Modern Review Staff

2015

The Program

as David Walsh

2014

2022

Slumberland

as Phillip

2014

The Double

as Nurse

2017

Loving Vincent

as Postman Joseph Roulin

2016

Mascots

as Tommy 'Zook' Zucarello

2017

Molly's Game

as Douglas Downey

2018

Love After Love

as Nicholas

2018

Juliet, Naked

as Duncan Thomson

2014

The IT Crowd Manual

as Self - Roy Trenneman

2013

Monsters Vs Aliens: Cloning Around

as Dr. Cockroach (voice)

2013

Epic

as Grub (voice)

2018

Mary Poppins Returns

as Shamus the Coachman (voice)

2020

How to Build a Girl

as Alan 'Wilko' Wilkinson

2005

2021

The Starling

as Jack Maynard

Production

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