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Chris O'Dowd

Chris O'Dowd

  • 45 years old
  • Irish
  • Actor, writer and director

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Nick Hornby delivers a caustic take on a marriage in crisis in this short-form series following a couple trying to salvage their relationship through counselling. The first 10-minute episode sees Chris O'Dowd and Rosamund Pike skittishly working their way up to attending their first session from the pub opposite. Hornby's dialogue is on top form as they drily compare the relative merits of cancer to Ebola and dissect their nonexistent sex life. It's an engaging single-setting watch delivered in micro-form.

Ammar Kalia, The Guardian, 8th September 2019

Chris O'Dowd interview

Chris O'Dowd on playing Rosamund Pike's husband: 'She could clearly do better!'

Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian, 4th September 2019

Chris O'Dowd and Rosamund Pike rehearsed with wine

Chris O'Dowd revealed he and Rosamund Pike rehearsed their upcoming BBC comedy State Of The Union in the pub over a glass of wine.

Yahoo, 3rd September 2019

Chris O'Dowd interview

'I was the funny friend of the girls I fancied. It was a comfort'

Stephanie Rafanelli, The Observer, 4th November 2018

IT Crowd's 'Work Outing' is comedy's greatest farce

The IT Crowd is the kind of classic sitcom that should never have worked in the mid-00s.

Alex Nelson, i Newspaper, 24th August 2017

Office worker Bruce Garrett (Nick Frost) is seeking redemption on the dancefloor. He tucked away his sequins years ago after being bullied at school, but dusts them down when the new boss (Rashida Jones) he's fallen for turns out to be a salsa fan. Frost doesn't quite convince as a dancer, but he's a nimble comedian and there's plenty of support from a vibrant cast including Olivia Colman and Chris O'Dowd.

Paul Howlett, The Guardian, 5th May 2017

Return of the rarely funny - and even more occasionally educational - series in which inebriated comedians demonstrate historical events. Tonight includes Chris O'Dowd and Alexander Armstrong recreating the Dambusters raid as directed by Joel Dommett, and Brian "Q" Quinn and Sal Vulcano discussing Alexander Graham Bell. The flaw is in the format: to the sober, the drunk are mostly merely annoying and boring.

Andrew Mueller, The Guardian, 8th March 2017

Prview - Drunk History

Based on the hit American comedy show, the British version of Drunk History is back for a third series.

Ian Wolf, On The Box, 8th March 2017

The 10 funniest IT Crowd episodes

We all want to throw our computers in the trash at some point in our lives. The IT Crowd, a British sitcom that centers on the basement dwellers of a corporate IT Department, feels your pain.

Emily Reily, Paste Magazine, 21st February 2017

What are the cast of 'The IT Crowd' doing now?

A whole decade after Jen first ventured down to the basement of Reynholm Industries, let's take a look at what the talented cast of The IT Crowd are doing now...

Sophie Davies, Cult Box, 10th March 2016

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