Chris Lilley

Christopher Daniel Lilley (born 10 November 1974) is an Australian actor, comedian, writer, director, television producer, and musician. He is known for his creation and portrayal of several characters in the mockumentary television series We Can Be Heroes: Finding The Australian of the Year (2005), Summer Heights High (2007), Angry Boys (2011), Ja'mie: Private School Girl (2013), Jonah from Tonga (2014), and Lunatics (2019). He is a two-time winner of the Logie Award for Most Popular Actor.

Works

Lunatics
5.2

Lunatics

This mockumentary series follows the peculiar lives of six eccentric -- and sometimes obscene -- misfits who march to their own beat.

Release Date:2019-04-19

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Character:

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:24

Jonah From Tonga
6.4

Jonah From Tonga

Fourteen year old breakdancer and mischievous delinquent, Jonah Takalua, returns from Tonga to start a new life at Holy Cross High School. Dominating the playground with his gang Fobba-licious, amusing himself with endless filfthy jokes and a schoolyard rivalry with the Rangas, Jonah challenges the school system, getting himself into more trouble than ever before.

Release Date:2014-05-07

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Character:Jonah Takalua

Episode Count:[ 6 ]

Vote Count:26

Ja'mie: Private School Girl
6.5

Ja'mie: Private School Girl

Ja'mie King, the self-promoting "queen bee" of Summer Heights High, returns from an exchange semester at that public school for her last three months at Hillford Girls Grammar, where she's the unchallenged diva among the school's most popular girls, as well as the school captain. Clothes, cars, boys, parties ... Ja'mie has it all, and her overriding goal is to win the Hillford Medal

Release Date:2013-10-30

Department:Crew

Job:Creator

Character:Ja'mie King

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:29

Angry Boys
7.0

Angry Boys

Angry Boys is an Australian television mockumentary series written by and starring Chris Lilley. Continuing the mockumentary style of his previous series, the show explores the issues faced by young males in the 21st century – their influences, their pressures, their dreams and ambitions. In Angry Boys, Lilley plays multiple characters: S.mouse, an American rapper; Jen, a manipulative Japanese mother; Blake Oakfield, a champion surfer; Ruth "Gran" Sims, a guard at a juvenile detention facility; and her grandchildren, South Australian twins Daniel and Nathan Sims. The series is a co-production between the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and US cable channel HBO, with a pre-sale to BBC Three in the United Kingdom. Filmed in Melbourne, Los Angeles and Tokyo, Angry Boys premièred on 11 May 2011 at 9:00 pm on ABC1.

Release Date:2011-05-11

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Daniel / Nathan / Gran / S.mouse / Blake / Jen

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:31

Summer Heights High
7.4

Summer Heights High

Exploring what happens over one school term in an average Australian high school, this mockumentary brings to life Jonah, a 13 year old mischievous schoolboy from Tonga with the odds stacked against him; Mr G, an ego-driven drama teacher with delusional showbiz dreams; and Ja’mie, a private schoolgirl on a student exchange, set to make her mark on Summer Heights High.

Release Date:2007-09-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Jonah Takalua / Mr. G / Ja'mie King

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:67

7.6

We Can Be Heroes: Finding the Australian of the Year

The story of five unique Australians who have been nominated for the Australian of the Year Award. Phil, a rescue hero who saved nine children in a jumping castle accident. Ricky, a Chinese physics genius and aspiring actor. Ja’mie, a charity-minded schoolgirl who sponsors 85 Sudanese children. Daniel and Nathan, hearing impaired teenage twin farm boys embarking on a world first eardrum transplant. And Pat, a disabled suburban housewife turned elite athlete.

Release Date:2005-07-27

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Phil Olivetti / Ricky Wong / Ja'mie King / Daniel Sims / Nathan Sims / Pat Mullins

Vote Count:19

We Can Be Heroes: Finding The Australian of the Year
7.3

We Can Be Heroes: Finding The Australian of the Year

The daily lives of five very special individuals who are among the thousands of citizens nominated for the prestigious title of Australian of the Year.

Release Date:2005-07-27

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Character:Daniel Sims / Ja'mie / Nathan Sims / Pat / Phil / Ricky

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:5

7.8

Ned

Parody of the legend of Australian bushranger Ned Kelly.

Release Date:2003-05-22

Character:Customer 1 & Klansman

Vote Count:4

Big Bite
8.5

Big Bite

Big Bite was an Australian sketch comedy television series, which ran on the Seven Network from 8 May 2003 to 4 March 2004 in a prime time timeslot on Thursdays. Since the end of the series episodes have been repeated on the Foxtel cable channel, The Comedy Channel and recently, reruns were shown on 7TWO.

Release Date:2003-05-08

Episode Count:13

Vote Count:4

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