Chris Orchard

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SKILLS Trained at NIDA, ATYP, Melbourne Theatre Company and others. Multiple leading roles in various high profile television series. Highly experienced. Numerous song writing awards. Nominated Best Songwriter Music Aid International Song Contest. Sings well. Plays guitar well. Released CD 'That's The Way It Goes of 10 compositions. Worked for major studios Universal and Paramount in distribution. Knowledge of film and TV promotion and marketing. Chris is a popular and recognizable actor in Australia from extensive television work. Chris continually works as both a musician and an actor. Recent appearances include ‘Prosper’ in which he played Prime Minister Mike Webber. He also appeared in the BBC series Ten Pound Poms. Chris studied at Australia’s National Institute of Dramatic art in the same year as Luminaries Mel Gibson and Judy Davis. He accumulated numerous credits in Sydney theatre and played several leading roles at the Melbourne Theatre Company. He has appeared in more than 500 hours of television screen time playing leading roles in multiple series. These include The Young Doctors, Cop Shop, Carsons Law, Prime Time, E Street, Special Squad, Prisoner, Time Trax, and others. He paused acting for a while to work on the distribution side of the film industry and had senior management roles with Universal, Paramount, and Polygram. Chris is a musician and songwriter and has performed on the Sydney club circuit for over 40 years. He has won or been highly placed in several international song contests and has publishing contracts on several songs. His bread-and-butter work includes several television commercials, and his distinctive voice lends itself to narration occasionally. He released a CD of his music in 2009 called That’s The Way It Goes. 14 of his songs are available on Spotify. TELEVISION Prosper Ten Pound Poms Gangs of OZ E Street Time Trax Lorimar Television USA Carson's Law Young Doctors Prime time Cop Shop Crawford Prod./Channel 7 Prisoner Grundy Organisation/Channel 10 Special Squad Crawford Productions/Channel 10 Breakers Screentime Channel 10 THEATRE Giving Up The Ghost. Limelight. Dir Rivka Hartman The Man From Muckinupin - MTC - dir. Judith Alexander The Tempest - Old Tote Theatre Co. - dir. Ted Craig The Lower Depths - Krivoy Zob - Old Tote Theatre Co. - dir. Liviu Culei Othello - Cassio - Old Tote Theatre Co. - dir. Ray Omedai A Toast to Melba - John Lemmone - Old Tote Theatre Co. - dir. Ray Omedai Isadora - Gordon Craig - Independent Prod. - dir: Co-Director Macbeth - Duncan - Victorian Arts Council - dir. Mark Gaal Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - Paradine Paterson - dir. Tom O'Hagen FILM Veov DRIVE (2016) Creswick (2016) Image of Death Greed Journey to Hainan CABARET Extensive appearances in club and music venues as singer/entertainer and compere. COMMERCIALS Soy Joy Wagon Wheels Suncorp Ford Australia Masport Forrest Gump (voice over) Casper the Movie (voice over)