This week's guest is Chris Walley. Chris Walley is an Irish stage and screen actor. He is best known for his portrayal of Jock Murphy in the comedy film and RTÉ and BBC Three television series The Young Offenders, for which he received an IFTA Award among other nominations. He also portrayed Private Bullen in 1917.
In 2018 Walley was cast alongside Aidan Turner in a revival of Martin McDonagh's play The Lieutenant of Inishmore, which opened at the Noël Coward Theatre in June of that same year. For his performance, Walley received exceptional reviews, with TimeOut London writing, 'in a uniformly strong cast, special praise should go to Walley. A virtual newcomer, he is excruciatingly brilliant as the mullet-clad Davey, who meets each new indignity heaped upon him with an impressive mix of resignation and hysteria', Broadway World saying that, 'you would never be able to guess this is his West End debut', and The New York Times stating, 'Chris Walley ... effortlessly conveys the illogical logic and perverse mundanity of the dialogue.
For this performance Walley was nominated for the Evening Standard Emerging Talent Award, won an Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actor and was selected as a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit, an initiative established by the British Academy of Film and Television Awards to foster the talents of up-and-coming members of the arts world by offering them mentorship for a year.