Chris Reilly

Chris Reilly is a Scottish actor who started working professionally in 2009, at 31, after training at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, supported by a Screen Academy Wales bursary. He took BAFTA Scotland's 2018 television acting prize for his portrayal of Alex Baxter in the BBC1 drama The Last Post. He plays Nick Duffy, head of MI5's internal enforcement unit, in the Apple TV+ series Slow Horses, and his other television credits include The Feed, Devils, BANG! and Industry. His films include a supporting part as Klev Schoening in Everest (2015), second billing in the British independent feature Allies (2014), and a role in Guy Ritchie's Wrath of Man (2021). He is the only actor to have been credited with more than one scripted part in Game of Thrones. On stage he has worked at Shakespeare's Globe and the Royal Court Theatre, as well as the National Theatre of Scotland and the Piccolo Teatro in Milan.