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.
Filmography
Summer Heights High
8 Episode s . as Jonah Takalua / Mr. G / Ja'mie King
Summer Heights High
8 Episode s . as Jonah Takalua / Mr. G / Ja'mie King
Angry Boys
12 Episode s . as Daniel / Nathan / Gran / S.mouse / Blake / Jen
Angry Boys
12 Episode s . as Daniel / Nathan / Gran / S.mouse / Blake / Jen
We Can Be Heroes: Finding The Australian of the Year
6 Episode s . as Daniel Sims / Ja'mie / Nathan Sims / Pat / Phil / Ricky
We Can Be Heroes: Finding The Australian of the Year
6 Episode s . as Daniel Sims / Ja'mie / Nathan Sims / Pat / Phil / Ricky
Ja'mie: Private School Girl
6 Episode s . as Ja'mie King
Ja'mie: Private School Girl
6 Episode s . as Ja'mie King
Jonah From Tonga
6 Episode s . as Jonah Takalua
Jonah From Tonga
6 Episode s . as Jonah Takalua
Created Shows
Angry Boys
12 Episode s . 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.
Angry Boys
12 Episode s . 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.
Summer Heights High
8 Episode s . 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.
Summer Heights High
8 Episode s . 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.
We Can Be Heroes: Finding The Australian of the Year
6 Episode s . 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.
We Can Be Heroes: Finding The Australian of the Year
6 Episode s . 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.
Jonah From Tonga
6 Episode s . 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.
Jonah From Tonga
6 Episode s . 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.
Ja'mie: Private School Girl
6 Episode s . 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
Ja'mie: Private School Girl
6 Episode s . 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
Lunatics
10 Episode s . This mockumentary series follows the peculiar lives of six eccentric -- and sometimes obscene -- misfits who march to their own beat.
Lunatics
10 Episode s . This mockumentary series follows the peculiar lives of six eccentric -- and sometimes obscene -- misfits who march to their own beat.