Chris O'Dowd
Also Known As: Christopher O'Dowd, 克里斯·奧多德, کریس اودوود
Biography: Christopher O'Dowd (born 9 October 1979) is an Irish actor and comedian. He received wide attention as Roy Brenneman, one of the lead characters in the Channel 4 comedy The IT Crowd, which ran for four series from 2006 to 2010. He has starred in films including Gulliver's Travels (2010), Bridesmaids, Friends with Kids (2011), Cuban Fury (2014), Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016) and The Cloverfield Paradox (2018). He created and starred in the Sky 1 television series Moone Boy, which aired from 2012 to 2015 and brought him Irish Film and Television Award nominations for acting, writing and directing. Since 2017, he has appeared as Miles Daly in the Epix comedy series Get Shorty. He had a recurring role in the comedy-drama series Girls. His performance in the British comedy TV series State of the Union won him a Primetime Emmy Award. He made his Broadway debut in the play adaptation of Of Mice and Men in 2014, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. In 2020, he was listed as #39 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris O'Dowd, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland
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Birthday: October 09, 1979
Age: 45 years old
Gender: Male
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Hotel Very Welcome
Overview: Five young Europeans (German, English, and Irish) try to find answers to life's questions in India and Thailand.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-02-13
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Vera Drake
Overview: Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-10-22
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Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel
Overview: Follows three social outcasts -- two geeks and a cynic -- as they attempt to navigate a time-travel conundrum in the middle of a British pub.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-24
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Puffin Rock and the New Friends
Overview: Follow the disappearance of the final Little Egg of the season in strange circumstances, leading Oona and her friends to embark on a race against time to try to save it before a big storm hits Puffin Rock and puts the island in danger.
Genres: Adventure Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-14
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National Theatre Live: Constellations
Overview: A quantum physicist and a beekeeper meet at a barbeque. They hit it off, or perhaps they don’t. They go home together, or maybe they go their separate ways. In the multiverse, with every possible future ahead of them, a love of honey could make all the difference. See each of the four casts of Donmar Warehouse's summer 2020 production in this filmed presentation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-10-28
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Adventures of Super Frank
Overview: An Irishman embarks on a road trip in search of his girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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Gulliver's Travels
Overview: Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver takes an assignment in Bermuda, but ends up on the island of Liliput, where he towers over its tiny citizens.
Genres: Family Comedy Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-12-23
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Dinner for Schmucks
Overview: Rising executive Tim Conrad works for a boss who hosts a monthly dinner in which the guest who brings the biggest buffoon gets a career-boost. Tim plans on not attending until he meets Barry, a man who builds dioramas using stuffed mice. Barry's blundering but good intentions send Tim's life into a downward spiral, threatening a major business deal and possibly scuttling Tim's engagement to his fiancee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-07-30
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Friends with Kids
Overview: In the wake of their friends' marriages and eventual offspring, longtime pals Julie and Jason decide to have a child together without becoming a couple. By becoming "time-share" parents, they reason, they can experience the joys of parenthood without significantly curbing their personal freedom. However, when Julie and Jason both become involved with others, they discover that they secretly harbor romantic feelings for each other.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-09
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The Boat That Rocked
Overview: An ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music. It's about a band of DJs that captivate Britain, playing the music that defines a generation and standing up to a government that wanted control of popular culture via the British Broadcasting Corporation. Loosely based on the events in Britain in the 60's when the Labour government of Harold Wilson, wanted to bring the pirate radio stations under control, enough to see the passage of the Marine Broadcasting Offences Act on 15 August 1967. Also known as "Pirate Radio".
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-04-01
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Conspiracy of Silence
Overview: When a priest commits suicide and two trainees are expelled from a seminary, a journalist starts to investigate the Vatican’s silence on broken vows of celibacy. A thriller examining the internal conflicts in the modern Catholic church.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-15
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Bridesmaids
Overview: Annie's life is a mess. But when she finds out her lifetime best friend is engaged, she simply must serve as Lillian's maid of honor. Though lovelorn and broke, Annie bluffs her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals. With one chance to get it perfect, she’ll show Lillian and her bridesmaids just how far you’ll go for someone you love.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-05-13
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3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom
Overview: Frank Bartlett has been tortured, embarrassed, and humiliated by his brother Bruce — usually on film — his entire life. Now that Bruce is finally off drugs and has turned his life around, things should be different. They are not.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-12
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Thor: The Dark World
Overview: Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos… but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-30
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Festival
Overview: 'Festival' is a black comedy set during the annual Edinburgh Fringe festival. The film is based around both the judging of a major comedy award and the performers at one of the smaller venues. Various plot strands interweave, including the bitter relationship between a famous self-obsessed British comic and his ever-suffering assistant, an actress debuting at the festival with a one-woman show about Dorothy Wordsworth and a depressed, rich housewife who spies on the stoned Canadian theatre troupe to whom she has rented out her house
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-07-15
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This Is 40
Overview: Pete and Debbie are both about to turn 40, their kids hate each other, both of their businesses are failing, they're on the verge of losing their house, and their relationship is threatening to fall apart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-20
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The Sapphires
Overview: It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship, and war when they entertain the US troops in Vietnam as singing group The Sapphires.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-08-08
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Calvary
Overview: After being threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-11
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My Father's Dragon
Overview: Struggling to cope after a move to the city with his mother, Elmer runs away in search of Wild Island and a young dragon who waits to be rescued. Elmer’s adventures introduce him to ferocious beasts, a mysterious island and the friendship of a lifetime.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-04
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Cuban Fury
Overview: Beneath Bruce Garrett's under-confident, overweight exterior, the passionate heart of a salsa king lies dormant. Now, one woman is about to reignite his Latin fire.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-14
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St. Vincent
Overview: A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-09
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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
Overview: Sidney Young is a down-on-his-luck journalist. Thanks to a stint involving a pig and a glitzy awards ceremony, Sidney turns his fortunes around, attracting the attention of Clayton Harding, editor of New York-based glossy magazine 'Sharps', and landing the holy grail of journalism jobs. The Brit jets off to the Big Apple and moves from one blunder to the next.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-02
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The Secret Policeman's Ball
Overview: A live stand-up comedy and music gig to celebrate Amnesty International's 50th Anniversary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-04
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The Program
Overview: An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong's performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances. With this conviction, he starts hunting for evidence that will expose Armstrong.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-16
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Monsters vs Aliens: Creature Features
Overview: The members of Team Monster - Susan, Link, Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D. and B.O.B. (the gelatinous blob) - go up against creepy aliens, hungry zombies and even an enormous kitten in 10 hair-raising adventures.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-01
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Slumberland
Overview: A young girl discovers a secret map to the dreamworld of Slumberland, and with the help of an eccentric outlaw, she traverses dreams and flees nightmares, with the hope that she will be able to see her late father again.
Genres: Family Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-11-18
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National Theatre Live: Of Mice and Men
Overview: A powerful portrait of the American spirit and a heartbreaking testament to the bonds of friendship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-11-06
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The Double
Overview: An awkward office drone becomes increasingly unhinged after a charismatic and confident look-alike takes a job at his workplace and seduces the woman he desires.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-03
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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Overview: A teenager finds himself transported to an island where he must help protect a group of orphans with special powers from creatures intent on destroying them.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Drama Family Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-09-27
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Loving Vincent
Overview: A young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.
Genres: Animation Drama Mystery History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-06-22
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Mascots
Overview: Eager contestants don big heads and furry suits to vie for the title of World's Best Mascot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-11
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The Cloverfield Paradox
Overview: Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-02-04
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Molly's Game
Overview: Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-12-07
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Love After Love
Overview: A sixty-something mother and her two adult sons cope and move onward following the death of their larger-than-life father/husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-03-30
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The Incredible Jessica James
Overview: Burned by a bad breakup, a struggling New York City playwright makes an unlikely connection with a divorced app designer she meets on a blind date.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-27
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Juliet, Naked
Overview: Annie is stuck in a long-term relationship with Duncan – an obsessive fan of obscure rocker Tucker Crowe. When the acoustic demo of Tucker's hit record from 25 years ago surfaces, its discovery leads to a life-changing encounter with the elusive rocker himself.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-16
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The IT Crowd Manual
Overview: This behind-the-scenes documentary features interviews with the creators and cast of the cult comedy "The IT Crowd", plus chats with celebrity fans.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-01-04
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Monsters Vs Aliens: Cloning Around
Overview: DVD release of the first 15 episodes of the TV series Monsters Vs Aliens. The series picks up after the events in the Monsters vs. Aliens film. Team Monster are hanging out, relaxing at their headquarters, Area Fifty-Something, when another alien spaceship arrives. While trying to calm the hysterical President Hathaway, General W.R. Monger and the gang soon determine that the spaceship contains the alien Coverton. He says he wants to make peace with Earth, but may be in cahoots with another alien on a not-too-friendly mission. Coverton and his naughty antics feature in all of the disc’s episodes.
Genres: Family Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-15
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Epic
Overview: A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest setting where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a rag-tag group characters in order to save their world—and ours.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-15
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Mary Poppins Returns
Overview: Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.
Genres: Fantasy Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-13
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How to Build a Girl
Overview: The journey of Midlands teenager Johanna Morrigan, who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde: fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer, moves to London, and gets a job as music critic in the hope of saving her poverty stricken family in Wolverhampton. Based on Caitlin Moran's bestselling semi-autobiographical novel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-09-24
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Loving Vincent: The Impossible Dream
Overview: A documentary detailing the journey it took two passionate filmmakers to achieve their impossible dream, creating the world's first fully painted feature film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-03-08
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The Year London Blew Up
Overview: Told through documentary, drama and first-hand accounts, this revealing film is a unique account of the most ruthless IRA bombing campaign ever to hit mainland Britain.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-01
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The Starling
Overview: A woman adjusting to life after a loss contends with a feisty bird that's taken over her garden — and a husband who's struggling to find a way forward.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-09-17
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Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth
Overview: On the eve of Earth Day, a precocious seven-year-old learns about the wonders of the planet from his parents—and a mysterious exhibit at the aptly named Museum of Everything.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-16
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The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008
Overview: The Secret Policeman's Ball 2008 was a show in the "Secret Policeman's Balls" series of benefit shows for Amnesty International. Like its immediate predecessor, the show was a single-night event at London's Royal Albert Hall, on Saturday 4 October 2008. The 3-hour event was video-taped and a 95-minute television special adapted from the show was broadcast the following day, on Britain's Channel Four. There was also a "cinecast" in which the Royal Albert Hall event was shown live in 35 cinemas in major British cities.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-04
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Three Bags Full: A Sheep Detective Movie
Overview: George Hardy, a shepherd who loves his sheep and raises them only for their wool. Every night he reads aloud a murder mystery, pretending his sheep can understand, never suspecting that not only can they understand, but they argue for hours afterwards about whodunnit. When George is found dead under mysterious circumstances, the sheep realise at once that it was a murder and think they know everything about how to go about solving it. The local cop Tim Derry, on the other hand, has never solved a serious crime in his life, so the sheep conclude they will have to solve it themselves, even if it means leaving their meadow for the first time and facing the fact that the human world isn’t as simple as it appears in books.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2026-02-20
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