Christopher Hollis(I)

Chris Hollis is a versatile stage and screen actor, equally at home with dramatic, emotional and comic performance. He trained at Webber Douglas Academy having read English at St Andrews University where he discovered a passion for acting and especially the classics and Shakespearean plays. He toured extensively in repertory theatre, working with directors like Sam Mendes, David Leveaux and Phyllida Lloyd, and has starred in the West End in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Much Ado About Nothing, Ivanov and latterly the hit musical Mamma Mia! in which he played Bill Austin. He worked with Kenneth Branagh on Twelfth Night which was later televised, and on the film Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. He has guest starred in popular TV series such as Eastenders, The Bill, A Touch Of Frost, Brookside, Life Begins and Das Boot.