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Chris O'Dowd

Chris O'Dowd

Birthday: 1979-10-09 | Place of Birth: Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland

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 appeared as Miles Daly in the Epix comedy series Get Shorty. He had a recurring role in the comedy-drama series Girls. His performance in the British comedy TV series State of the Union won him a Primetime Emmy Award. He made his Broadway debut in the play adaptation of Of Mice and Men in 2014, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. In 2020, he was listed as #39 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris O'Dowd, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2025
The Brightening Air

as    Dermot

2025
2023
The Big Door Prize

as    Dusty

2023
Puffin Rock and the New Friends

as    Narrator (voice)

2022
My Father's Dragon

as    Kwan the Macaque (voice)

2022
Slumberland

as    Phillip

2021
The Starling

as    Jack Maynard

2021
2020
Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth

as    Finn's Dad (voice)

2018
Juliet, Naked

as    Duncan Thomson

2018
The Cloverfield Paradox

as    Mundy

2018
Love After Love

as    Nicholas

2017
2017
Molly's Game

as    Douglas Downey

2017
Get Shorty

as    Miles Daly

2017
Loving Vincent

as    Postman Joseph Roulin

2016
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

as    Franklin Portman

2015
The Program

as    David Walsh

2014
St. Vincent

as    Brother Geraghty

2014
Monsters vs Aliens: Creature Features

as    Dr. Cockroach Ph.D.

2014
Cuban Fury

as    Drew

2014
Calvary

as    Jack Brennan

2014
The IT Crowd Manual

as    Self - Roy Trenneman

2013
Family Tree

as    Tom Chadwick