Christopher O'Dowd is an Irish actor, best known for comedic roles such as Miles Daly in the Epix comedy series Get Shorty and Roy Trenneman in the Channel 4 comedy The IT Crowd. O'Dowd created and starred in the Sky 1 television series Moone Boy, which aired between 2012 and 2015.He co-wrote a series based on his childhood called Moone Boy for Sky 1. Segments of the series are filmed in his hometown, Boyle. A book based on the series and also co-written by O'Dowd, Moone Boy: The Blunder Years, was published in May 2015. He had a recurring role on the comedy-drama series Girls.O'Dowd is also known for his film roles, most notably Bridesmaids (2011), This Is 40 (2012), The Sapphires (2012), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Calvary (2014), and St. Vincent (2014). He made his Broadway debut in the play adaptation of Of Mice and Men in 2014, for which he was nominated for a Tony Award.
Has a collection of over a thousand chocolate bar wrappers.
Engaged to Dawn OPorter [December 30, 2011].
As an Irishman, he says he felt an unexpected kinship with Aboriginals while making The Sapphires .
Lives in Los Angeles with Dawn OPorter and her dog (potato) and cat (lilu).
In a 2014 interview on the NPR interview program "Fresh Air with Terry Gross," ODowd told Gross that before he was an actor he worked at a call center, and one of his jobs was making solicitation calls for a well known wildlife charity. He said that the endangered animals that he was supposed to tell potential donors about--like New Guinean bats or newts from New Zealand--were unappealing to people, so he started making up fake endangered animals that he thought would be more attractive to them. One was a "tiger swan," which he described as "essentially a swan with the markings of a Bengal"; one was "some kind of flying dolphin".
Met his wife Dawn at her 30th birthday party in Los Angeles in 2009.
Guests at Chris and Dawns London wedding included Brian ODriscoll , wife Amy Huberman , "The IT Crowd" writer Graham Linehan and TV presenter Caroline Flack.
When he and Dawn Porter married, instead of taking his second name she simply attached an "O" to her name (OPorter).
