Training: Chris was born in Teeside and made his West End debut at 15 in Oliver! (London Palladium) playing Snake. He trained at the Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts and the Circus Space in collaboration with the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Theatre includes: Tommy the Cat in Dick Whittington, The Carpet and understudied Lefou in Disney's Beauty and the Beast (tour), Broadway (Palace, Myrtle Beach, USA), Spirit of the Dance (international tour), Nintendo's Pokemon (European tour) creating the role of Ash which resulted in a residence at the Aladdin Casino, Las Vegas, Michael Darling in Peter Pan (Sunderland Empire), Baby John in West Side Story and a season at the Millennium Dome, Greenwich, in which he starred in OVO, the central arena show, as an aerialist 42m high. This gave him a taste for altitude and he is now a qualified skydiver.
Other work includes: Rebuild the Roundhouse at Camden, Phflaster Specktakel at the Linzer Summer Festival, Austria, where he was the aerial specialist, and television and radio in the UK and abroad.