Chris Lilley

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Chris Lilley Wiki Biography

Christopher Daniel “Chris” Lilley is an Australian comedian, television producer, actor, musician and writer. A two-time winner of the Logie Award for Most Popular Actor, he is known for his creation and portrayal of several characters in the mockumentary television series W… IMDB Wikipedia $4 Million 1974 5 ft 8 in (1.75 m) Actor Australia Barker College Chris Lilley Chris Lilley Net Worth Christopher Daniel Lilley Christopher Lilley Comedian Logie Award for Most Popular Actor Macquarie University November 10 Richest Comedians Sydney Television Producer Writer

Chris Lilley Quick Info

Full Name Chris Lilley
Net Worth $4 Million
Date Of Birth November 10, 1974
Place Of Birth Sydney, Australia
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.75 m)
Profession Writer, Comedian, Actor, Television producer
Education Macquarie University, Barker College
Nationality Australia
Nicknames Christopher Lilley , Christopher Daniel Lilley
Facebook http://www.facebook.com/chrislilley
Twitter http://www.twitter.com/chrislilley
Instagram http://www.instagram.com/chrislilley
IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1372823
Awards Logie Award for Most Popular Actor
Nominations Gold Logie Award for Best Personality on Australian Television, Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actor, AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama, AACTA Award for Best Screenplay in Television
TV Shows Ja’mie: Private School Girl, Angry Boys, Summer Heights High, We Can Be Heroes: Finding The Australian of the Year, Big Bite, Jonah from Tonga

Chris Lilley Quotes

  • When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I’d constantly be that guy who’d get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.
  • I’m totally not media shy and do interviews all the time and go to events and totally play along and actually enjoy talking to journalists most of the time.
  • When I wrote ‘We Can Be Heroes,’ I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a television series allows you to do that.
  • When no one knows you, and you’re just trying to break into stuff, it’s so good because you can write whatever you want and just say it; it’s just between you and the audience. There’s no process or worrying about anyone else interfering with what you’re doing.
  • There are bits of me in all my characters.
  • People were making fun of redheads before I came along.
  • Playing girls is cool, but its a lot more fun playing boys.
  • People think that I’m some kind of genius who’s got these statements to say, and… I’m not really.
  • I’m not a big comedy show-watcher, but I love Ricky Gervais’ stuff and Sacha Baron Cohen’s things. But I’m not an expert on them. I’ve seen them once.
  • Like, Australians definitely don’t walk around dressed up in blackface going, ‘Ha-ha.’
  • Mostly, what I watch are reality shows and documentaries.
  • It takes me ages to write stuff.
  • People are always nice; I never get anything mean said to me on the street.
  • It’s pretty awful being told you’re a racist.
  • I’m not really a management-type person. It doesn’t suit my personality to be bossing people around.
  • If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.
  • I’ve met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they’ve said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.
  • I’ve never been a 16-year-old girl.
  • In Australia, I’m built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.
  • I would love to play a British character one day. My accent wavers between Scottish and Irish very easily, though.
  • I’m definitely attracted to the idea of people that have these big aspirations that the audience know might never happen, but they’re lost in them.
  • I’m not a big fan of ‘Jersey Shore’ and those kinds of shows where people are really playing up to the cameras.
  • I went to a private boys’ school, and we had girls in the last two years.
  • I’ll probably be still playing a school girl when I’m 60.
  • I think surprises make TV entertaining.
  • I never like to think of any character as being over. I’m always thinking of different ways of bringing them back.
  • I think after doing a few shows now, people are ready to put me down.
  • I was sure ‘Summer Heights High’ would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.
  • I think my parents had a hard time dealing with me.
  • I just do what I think is funny and what’s exciting to me.
  • I get asked to do stupid things like panel shows and talk shows and things.
  • I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.
  • I have a massive guilt thing about money.
  • I like playing all sorts of ages and genders.
  • I find actors a little bit too self-conscious.
  • I feel like I’m so normal. So normal it’s boring.
  • I didn’t do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.
  • I find myself believing everything that journalists tell me.
  • I don’t just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.
  • Films do seem prestigious and glamorous, but when you create something, you want people to see it. TV still reaches so many more people; it still really appeals to me.
  • Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it’s hard to fulfill their expectations.
  • I don’t like to analyze what I do too much, but I certainly never meet a single person and say, ‘You’re the next character.’ People think that’s what I do. They also think that I sit down and observe and try to imitate random people. I’ve never done that at all.
  • You can’t get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.
  • British comedy fans go crazy.
  • I’m interested in youth culture – when your parents are running your life, but you think you’re the big man – but I’m not trying to make a statement.
  • It’s barely OK for me to be dressed up as a black guy. But part of me kind of enjoys provoking people.
  • Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn’t do anything about that, or politics or something.
  • You feel the pressure of going to university because you need a back-up plan, which is why I enrolled.
  • I’m so independent in writing stuff and controlling what I do. Sometimes I get calls from people asking to be in their movie, but I’m always writing or editing, and I can never get around to doing it. I’m so much more interested in my own stuff. I think I drive my agent crazy.
  • I feel really qualified to write about Australia.
  • I get bored with the constant probing for the clichéd tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.
  • I met Kim Kardashian in a nightclub once, and she was really nice. Kanye was with her, but he didn’t speak. He just looked at me.
  • I’ve done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don’t even pretend it’s for their grandkids. They’re like, ‘No, it’s for me.’
  • I find teenage girls endlessly funny.
  • To be honest, after all the crap that happened with ‘Summer Heights High,’ I was like, ‘I’m not going to write anything controversial or edgy ever again; I just can’t handle the blame.’
  • I really like Jeff Lewis and ‘Flipping Out’ and ‘Interior Therapy.’ I don’t know why I’m obsessed with American real estate and renovation.
  • I’m pretty lucky. I don’t get too many haters.
  • I’m not interested in being one of those comedians who wants to look good and be this ‘cool’ funny person. I don’t care how weird or ugly I look.
  • Australia has a thing where apparently it’s fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.

Chris Lilley Important Facts

  • Chris is a vegetarian.

Chris Lilley Filmography

Title Year Status Character Role
Jonah from Tonga TV Mini-Series created by – 6 episodes, 2014 written by – 6 episodes, 2014 Writer
Ja’mie: Private School Girl TV Series created by – 6 episodes, 2013 written by – 6 episodes, 2013 Writer
Angry Boys TV Series created by – 12 episodes, 2011 written by – 12 episodes, 2011 Writer
Summer Heights High 2007 TV Series created and written by – 8 episodes Writer
We Can Be Heroes TV Series created by – 6 episodes, 2005 written by – 6 episodes, 2005 Writer
Hamish & Andy 2004 TV Series writer – 6 episodes Writer
Big Bite 2003-2004 TV Series writer – 14 episodes Writer
Jonah from Tonga 2014 TV Mini-Series Jonah Takalua Actor
Ja’mie: Private School Girl 2013 TV Series Ja’mie Actor
Angry Boys 2011 TV Series Daniel Sims / Nathan Sims / Ruth ‘Gran’ Sims / … Actor
We Can Be Heroes 2005 TV Series Phil / Ricky / Ja’mie / … Actor
Hamish & Andy 2004 TV Series Mr. G / Various Actor
Big Bite 2003-2004 TV Series Extreme Darren
Mr G
Various Characters
Actor
Ned 2003 Customer 1 & Klansman Actor
Young Lions 2002 TV Series Mick Dwyer Actor
The Monday Dump 2001 TV Series Army Reserve Guy Actor
Jonah from Tonga TV Mini-Series executive producer – 6 episodes, 2014 producer – 6 episodes, 2014 Producer
Ja’mie: Private School Girl TV Series executive producer – 6 episodes, 2013 producer – 6 episodes, 2013 Producer
Angry Boys TV Series executive producer – 12 episodes, 2011 producer – 12 episodes, 2011 Producer
Summer Heights High 2007 TV Series co-producer – 8 episodes Producer
We Can Be Heroes 2005 TV Series co-producer – 6 episodes Producer
Angry Boys TV Series composer – 19 episodes, 2011 music producer – 6 episodes, 2011 Music Department
Jonah from Tonga 2014 TV Mini-Series 6 episodes Director
Ja’mie: Private School Girl 2013 TV Series 6 episodes Director
Angry Boys 2011 TV Series 12 episodes Director
Angry Boys 2011 TV Series 12 episodes Composer
Angry Boys TV Series producer – 1 episode, 2011 writer – 1 episode, 2011 Soundtrack
We Can Be Heroes 2005 TV Series performer – 2 episodes Soundtrack
The 50th Annual TV Week Logie Awards 2008 TV Special Himself Self
Stop Laughing… This Is Serious 2015 TV Series documentary Himself Archive Footage

Chris Lilley Awards

Year Award Ceremony Nomination Movie Category
2014 Silver Logie Logie Awards Most Popular Actor Ja’mie: Private School Girl (2013) Won
2012 ADG Award Australian Directors Guild Best Direction in a TV Comedy Series Angry Boys (2011) Won
2012 AACTA Award Australian Film Institute Best Performance in a Television Comedy Angry Boys (2011) Won
2008 Silver Logie Logie Awards Most Popular Actor Summer Heights High (2007) Won
2008 AFI Award Australian Film Institute Best Television Comedy Series Summer Heights High (2007) Won
2008 AFI Award Australian Film Institute Best Performance in a Television Comedy Summer Heights High (2007) Won
2006 Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent Logie Awards We Can Be Heroes (2005) Won
2006 Golden Rose Rose d’Or Light Entertainment Festival Best Male Comedy Performance We Can Be Heroes (2005) Won
2014 Silver Logie Logie Awards Most Popular Actor Ja’mie: Private School Girl (2013) Nominated
2012 ADG Award Australian Directors Guild Best Direction in a TV Comedy Series Angry Boys (2011) Nominated
2012 AACTA Award Australian Film Institute Best Performance in a Television Comedy Angry Boys (2011) Nominated
2008 Silver Logie Logie Awards Most Popular Actor Summer Heights High (2007) Nominated
2008 AFI Award Australian Film Institute Best Television Comedy Series Summer Heights High (2007) Nominated
2008 AFI Award Australian Film Institute Best Performance in a Television Comedy Summer Heights High (2007) Nominated
2006 Graham Kennedy Award for Most Outstanding New Talent Logie Awards We Can Be Heroes (2005) Nominated
2006 Golden Rose Rose d’Or Light Entertainment Festival Best Male Comedy Performance We Can Be Heroes (2005) Nominated