Christopher Whitehouse

Christopher, left his native County Down at the age of sixteen to be an actor and spent a year as a backstage casual in London. He hitch-hiked around the world and travelled through four continents before returning to work in a factory seven nights a week in order to pay for the cherished place he had landed himself at Central School of Speech and Drama. Theatre includes Nick “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (Stoke on Trent), Banquo “Macbeth” (Lyric Belfast), Butt “Volunteers” (Gate), Shylock “Merchant of Venice” (Belfast Arts), Chris “All my Sons” (Harrogate) ‘One of the finest performances ever seen at this theatre’ (Yorkshire Post), Avriel “Days of the Commune” (RSC), The Porter “Macbeth” (Lincoln Theatre Royal). Television includes Frankie “Harry’s Game” (YTV), Gallaher “Crossfire” (BBC), Murphy “Widows” (Euston Films), MI5 Chief “Game Set and Match” (Granada), Gallagher “Hunted” (Blue Rider Films) and The Beadle “Bleak House” (BBC). Also Eastenders, Bergerac, The Bill, Casualty, Dangerfield and Minder. Chris has been married twice, he has four children, aged between 20 and 40 and tries to spend as much of the year as possible, between commitments, at his Villa in Spain.

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