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Biography
Christopher is a natural born actor & defines the true sense of the meaning 'Mutli - Talented'. Born from Swedish & English blood Christopher grew up on the production sets of Black Beauty, Dick Turpin & Superman alongside his Film & Television Stuntman father Peter. At 5 years of age he discovered both music & acting when he picked up an old acoustic guitar and started to play along to Elvis and AC/DC, as well as imitating Doctor Who's' Tom Baker & repeating lines from JAWS. He later found a growing passion for drama at school, which in turn lead Christopher to auditioning & gaining a place at London's prestigious ‘Arts Ed’ in Chiswick. Christopher auditioned with Joe Orton's 'Entertaining Mr Sloan' & Shakespear's 'Twelth Night'. He also auditioned for the full scholarship, & was awarded the much sought after grant of which only 7 were available to the 59 that auditioned that year. Penelope Keith served on the board & personally told Chris that she thought he had the talent to go all the way.
After leaving Arts Ed' he found work on television, first with a few lines in Gerry Anderson's Space Precinct, ITV's Thief Takers, Rebus & Channel 5's Harry & Cosh. Then came support & lead roles in episodes of Kavanagh QC, Hollyoaks, Casualty & Ultimate Force. He filmed a lead role as a skinhead in a short film entitled Saturday Night Oi!. This short was featured on Channel 4's short film season & the film is still being used as a template of 'how to make a perfect short film' at The Farnham Film School. He appeared as Mark in A Chorus Line, performing in a 2 week run at The Players Theatre in Charing Cross.
Whilst developing his acting career Christopher explored his other talent & passion of music, forming the band Slam Cartel in 2001. Christopher auditioned the musicians & put the band together. He composed all of the songs for the band too. The band successfully recorded and released single Another Day and subsequently toured the UK & Europe supporting InMe among other Artists whilst concentrating on advancing his acting career too by 'reading up' & taking advanced acting classes at London's Actor's Centre to maintain & increase his emotional access levels.
Over the more recent years Christopher has played roles in many cinema & television commercials such as Hewlitt Packard, HSBC, Playstation's Getaway, X box's Rallisport Challenge as well as a high budget Aston Martin internet & cinema film entitled True Power. This commercial was filmed as a 3 parter & his acting & stunt talents were combined to make this high octane Bondesque action commercial. To date he has played the leads in 5 professional shorts & featured in one of the first ever 'dramality' shows to appear on television entitled Shock Treatment. This Sky 1 series starred Rutger Hauer & Chris featured in 3 of it's 6 episodes. Over the years he has appeared many times on the stage for production company 'Hey, its Enrico Pallazzo', a company which writes innovative theatre to liven up the 'dull' corporate arena by tailor making plays for the client's outlook, philosophy & product. The performances were a success & received both press internally and publicly. To date he has acted in these productions in London, Stockholm & Copenhagen for Volvo International & The Swedish Transport System. He also appeared as a presenter on a 2 part science program on national Swedish Television as well as in the music videos for Row Ya Boat by artist Imran Hanif & Metal Band Igneous Human in their video for the song Demonride. Christopher has also achieved a high level of motion capture acting / Mo Cap for console games companies, such as EA Dice & Playstation /Xbox & has played the well known roles of Haggard & Marlowe, 2 of the characters in the famous Battlefield: Bad Company.
Christopher's love & passion of film making pushed him to undertake several directors classes & courses, spurned on by a strong feeling that he needed to apply himself within this area to achieve a greater understanding and appreciation of his love of artistic film & television. these courses proved invaluable in 2011 when he was given the lead role of Danny and appointed Co-Director of feature film 'ANGRY' (2013 release). Shot on location in Sweden for 6 weeks and with a budget of $750,000, Christopher starred alongside award winning actors Bo Svenson (Kill Bill / Inglorious Basterds / Walking Tall) and Yohanna Idha (Certain People / Wallander).
Adding to Christopher’s talents is his incredible fitness. He is a trained athlete that possesses high level physical skills, many gained through his training to become a Stuntman. Christopher maintains a strict regime and mindset, training between 12 – 16 hours a week to keep up and excel in all his sporting talents which include MMA (mixed martial arts), Weightlifting, Horse Riding, Long Distance Hiking, Mountain Biking & Fencing. He also belongs to the National Rifle Association of Great Britain and shoots several types of rifles.
Christopher's dedication to utilising the motivations and mechanics of film making have lead him to write the short film ‘Choice' which will go into pre-production in 2014. Christopher secured a significant budget of (£15,000) to produce this film. This is Christopher’s first film project where he directs alone. The film is a realistic & heavy piece of drama revolving around the theme of ‘the butterfly effect’ & how one person's choice in a single moment affects and destroys so many lives. Choice will be submitted to the film festival circuit in 2014.
As someone who has spent hundreds of days on large scale, high budget film / TV sets through to small maverick style indie films he is more than familiar with the demands & requirements of today’s industry & it’s budget limitations, not just as an actor but also as a director. His passion & thirst for knowledge for film is never ending. As an actor Christopher has spent over 340 days in front of the camera & 72 days on the stage. Christopher is currently undertaking the 'Directors Diploma' at London's Raindance Film School.
