Chris O'Dowd

Date of Birth: 09 Oct 1979
Country: Ireland
Total Credits at Criticker: 45 (Actor), 2 (Director), 1 (Writer), 1 (Creator)
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Vera Drake is a selfless woman who is completely devoted to, and loved by, her working class family. She spends her days doting on them and caring for her sick neighbor and elderly mother. However, she also secretly visits women and helps them induce miscarriages for unwanted pregnancies. While the practice itself was illegal in 1950s England, Vera sees herself as simply helping women in need, and always does so with a smile and kind words of encouragement. When the authorities finally find her out, Vera's world and family life rapidly unravel. (imdb)
'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... (imdb)
A British writer struggles to fit in at a high-profile magazine in New York. Based on Toby Young's memoir "How to Lose Friends & Alienate People".
A period comedy about an illegal radio station in the North Sea in the 1960's. (imdb)
Following the travails of five disparate (and desperate) Westerners--including a couple of English lager louts, an in-transit German woman confined to her Thai hotel, an Irishman doing a runner from hometown responsibilities and another German woman seeking solace at a meditation centre--Heiss almost casually (and sometimes gently) allows her camera to capture her characters' predicaments in Thailand and India. (viff)
While drinking at their local pub, three social outcasts attempt to navigate a time-travel conundrum. (imdb)
Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver takes an assignment in Bermuda, but ends up on the island of Liliput, where he towers over its tiny citizens. (imdb)
The Crimson Petal and the White (2011) - TV Mini-Series
Set in 1860s London, a young prostitute finds potential power and status after becoming the mistress of a powerful patriarch. (imdb)
Picked as her best friend's maid of honor, lovelorn and broke Annie (Wiig) looks to bluff her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals with an oddball group of bridesmaids. (imdb)
Friends with Kids revolves around a pair of best friends in their 30s who observe the effect of having kids has taken on the couples they know. To avoid that toll, the best friends resolve to have a child and then date other people.
A look at the lives of Pete and Debbie a few years after the events of Knocked Up. (imdb)
It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when their all girl group The Sapphires entertain the US troops in Vietnam. (imdb)
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. (imdb)
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. (imdb)
A clerk in a government agency finds his unenviable life takes a turn for the horrific with the arrival of a new co-worker who is both his exact physical double and his opposite - confident, charismatic and seductive with women.
A former salsa prodigy attempts a comeback years after his career was ruined. (imdb)
Roman's Empire (2007) - TV Mini-Series
Leo, ex-boyfriend of Roman's middle daughter Nikki,still lives with the family. Nikki's new boyfriend is still in the closet, which Leo tries to reveal but usually ends up looking a fool. Jase. married to eldest sister Jenny, is constantly attempting to escape. Hokkasawa the family gardener falls in love with the youngest sister inspite of plotting revenge for Roman who caused the loss of his previous job as restaurant chef. Roman secretly plans to drill for oil - but Jesus wants to stop him!
After he is threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him. (imdb)
A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door. (imdb)
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. (imdb)
Family Tree (2013) - TV Series
Centers on 30-year-old Tom Chadwick who, after losing his job and his girlfriend, begins exploring his family heritage after inheriting a mysterious box from a great aunt he never met. Unsure of his identity, he uncovers a world of unusual stories and characters as well as a growing sense of who he and his real family are. (HBO)
An account of counterculturalist Richard Neville's misadventures in London at the end of the 1960s. (imdb)
When Jacob discovers clues to a mystery that spans different worlds and times, he finds Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. But the mystery and danger deepen as he gets to know the residents and learns about their special powers.
FM (2009) - TV Series
O'Dowd is Lindsay Carol, a DJ on a hip radio station Skin FM. Urbane and witty on air, off-air he's a shambles, as inept in love as he is trying to be cool. (imdb)
A feature film about the life and mysterious death of Vincent Van Gogh. (imdb)
An aspiring playwright in New York strikes up a friendship with a guy while on the rebound from a break-up. (imdb)
The IT Crowd Manual (2014) - TV Movie
A behind the scenes documentary featuring interviews with the cast and crew of The IT Crowd. (imdb)
The true story of an Olympic-class skier who ran the world's most exclusive high-stakes poker game and became an FBI target. Her players included movie stars, business titans and unbeknownst to her, the Russian mob. (imdb)
After a scientific experiment aboard the space station involving a particle accelerator has unexpected results, the astronauts find themselves isolated. Following their horrible discovery, the space station crew must fight for survival. (imdb)
Annie, the long-suffering girlfriend of Duncan, begins an unlikely transatlantic romance with once revered, now faded, singer-songwriter, Tucker Crowe, who also happens to be the subject of Duncan's musical obsession. (imdb)
Following the death of their father, two sons deal with the trials of their own lives while watching their mother explore new beginnings of her own.
Puffin Rock (2015) - TV Series
Puffin Rock follows the adventures of Oona, her little brother Baba, and their family and friends on a gorgeous and wild Irish island. (imdb)
State of the Union (2019) - TV Series
State of the Union follows Louise and Tom who meet in a pub immediately before their weekly marital therapy session. Each episode pieces together how their lives were, what drew them together, and what has started to pull them apart. (imdb)
Teenager Johanna Morrigan reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde, a fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer. She moves to London and gets a job as music critic in the hope of saving her poverty stricken family in Wolverhampton.
After Lilly suffers a loss, a combative Starling takes nest beside her quiet home. The feisty bird taunts and attacks the grief-stricken Lilly. On her journey to expel the Starling, she rediscovers her will to live and capacity for love.
Elmer Elevator searches for a captive Dragon on Wild Island and finds much more than he could ever have anticipated.
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.
The Big Door Prize (2023) - TV Series
- Dusty (2023)
- Cass (2023)
- Jacob (2023)
- Father Reuben (2023)
- Trina (2023)
- Beau (2023)
- Giorgio (2023)
- Izzy (2023)
- Deerfest: Part One (2023)
- Deerfest: Part Two (2023)
- The Next Stage (2024)
- Visions (2024)
- Power & Energy (2024)
- Storytellers (2024)
- Night Under the Stars (2024)
- Back in the Saddle (2024)
- Rehearsals (2024)
- Our Town (2024)
- Un-Selfploration (2024)
- Deercoming (2024)
Monsters vs. Aliens (2013) - TV Series
The further adventures of Susan and her monster friends as they defend Earth from various alien and supernatural threats.