Christopher O’Dowd\u00a0(born 9 October 1979) is an Irish actor and comedian. He received wide attention as\u00a0Roy Brenneman, one of the lead characters in the\u00a0Channel 4\u00a0comedy\u00a0The IT Crowd, which ran for four series from 2006 to 2010. He has starred in films including\u00a0Gulliver’s Travels\u00a0(2010),\u00a0Bridesmaids,\u00a0Friends with Kids (2011),\u00a0Cuban Fury\u00a0(2014),\u00a0Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children\u00a0(2016) and\u00a0The Cloverfield Paradox\u00a0(2018). He created and starred in the\u00a0Sky 1\u00a0television series\u00a0Moone Boy, which aired from 2012 to 2015 and brought him\u00a0Irish Film and Television Award\u00a0nominations for acting, writing and directing.<\/p>\n
Since 2017, he has appeared as\u00a0Miles Daly\u00a0in the\u00a0Epix\u00a0comedy series\u00a0Get Shorty. He had a recurring role in the comedy-drama series\u00a0Girls. His performance in the British comedy TV series\u00a0State of the Union\u00a0won him a\u00a0Primetime Emmy Award. He made his\u00a0Broadway\u00a0debut in the play adaptation of\u00a0Of Mice and Men\u00a0in 2014, for which he was nominated for a\u00a0Tony Award. In 2020, he was listed as #39 on\u00a0The Irish Times\u00a0list of Ireland’s greatest film actors.<\/p>\n
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Christopher O’Dowd\u00a0(born 9 October 1979) is an Irish actor and comedian. He received wide attention as\u00a0Roy Brenneman, one of the lead characters in the\u00a0Channel 4\u00a0comedy\u00a0The IT Crowd, which ran for four series from 2006 to 2010. He has starred in films including\u00a0Gulliver’s Travels\u00a0(2010),\u00a0Bridesmaids,\u00a0Friends with Kids (2011),\u00a0Cuban Fury\u00a0(2014),\u00a0Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children\u00a0(2016) and\u00a0The Cloverfield Paradox\u00a0(2018). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-194","movie_engine_person","type-movie_engine_person","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n