chrisbearne

Born and bred a Devon man, later linguist (I still translate classical music CD inserts for fun�) and Eurocrat, I spent 30-odd years in Luxembourg moonlighting as actor, and recording artist. After full-time training with The Actors Company, I played two major roles in their 2006 production of Dark of the Moon (see photo : Conjur Man) at the Jermyn Street Theatre, where I also made my full professional debut in La Ronde. I've been in non-stop stage work for the last fifteen months (see credits).

I started my screen career in Luxembourg, as a human canvas in Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book (1995), then Giapetto's Doctor in The Further Adventures of Pinocchio and later the Vicar In a Dark Place (The Turn of the Screw).

Short film work in the UK has included A Favourite Olace, The Marionette Unit, A Man Alone, all on YouTube. My first starring feature role was in Crab Island, as Hemlock Crab, a Lear-like old codger marooned with his daughters, and later Villains, starring as ageing Geordie bad-ass Jackie Shields. Both the latter are Robbie Moffat movies. Since then I've featured in eight other Palm Tree Movies, all listed here, most recently as Barry Drone in The Beehive.

My stage credits include two Shakespeares and a number of Shaws for Michael Friend Production : The Comedy of Errors and Lear and his Daughters (eponymous) ; Mrs Warren's profession, St Joan, You Never Can Tell, Widower's Houses, Geneva, St Joan and Heartbreak House, as well as Professor Serebryakov in Uncle Vanya and Colonel Redfern in Look Back in Anger. I was also proud to create the role of Old Sade in The Divine Marquis. My last role before the pandemic was in Beneath the Blue Rinse on tour in Oxfordshire.