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Chris

Lilley

10 November 1974

Sydney, Australia

Scorpio

Summer Heights High

Male

Australian

Lilley was born in Sydney and attended Pymble Public School as well as later studied at Barker College and finished his university degree at Macquarie University. He began his career performing stand-up comedy As a film actor, he starred in the film satire Ned based on Ned Kelly. He has also appeared on Hamish & Andy, a popular radio show. After the success of his series, Lilley became a national sensation and a well known comedian in Australia. Since the commencement of his career and three mockumentary television shows, he has won and been nominated for numerous awards. He has also been congratulated greatly for his "awareness and expression of controversial issues and not exploiting them for laughs. In 2003, Lilley made his debut when he was cast in Big Bite, a Seven Network comedy program. He was cast just after he was named the "MSN Butterfly" in a series of advertisements on Television and Cinema for MSN. Big Bite was a 2003 Australian Film Institute Awards nominee for Best Television Comedy Series, marking the first time a comedy program from a commercial television network had ever been nominated at the Australian Film Institute Awards in any category. Because of the large achievement, the producers credited it to Lilley and his co-star, Andrew O`Keefe. Despite high ratings and critical acclaim, the show lasted only one series before being spin-off series into the comedy/variety programme The Hamish and Andy Show, a show that would be axed after only a handful of episodes aired. The Hamish and Andy Show welcomed Lilley as a guest several times. After the cancellation of Big Bite, he moved to creating series in which he would cast himself and do regular comedy sketches. He created We Can Be Heroes: Finding the Australian of the Year. In this series he would portray many fictional characters who were nominated for the Australian of the Year Award.For We Can Be Heroes, Lilley was nominated for Best Comedy Series, Best Lead Actor in Television and Best Comedy Series at the 2006 Australian Film Institute Awards as well as winning Best New Talent and Most Outstanding Comedy Program at the Logie Awards of 2006. After its success, it was sold to other countries under the new name, The Nominees. For his second mockumentary, Summer Heights High, Lilley received overwhelming success and went international, selling the series to the United States and the United Kingdom. The series showed three diverse characters who all attended a public school (much discussed in Australian culture for their differences from private schools). He was nominated for four Logie Awards at its 50th Awards Ceremony which included Most Outstanding Actor, Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality on Television, and won the Silver Logie for Most Popular Actor and Logie Award for Most Outstanding Comedy Program. From the series he also released a single named Naughty Girl, which was performed by his drama teacher character Mr G.

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Christopher "Chris" Lilley (born 10 November 1974, Sydney, Australia) is an Australian comedian, television producer, actor and writer. He is best known for his creation and portrayal of several characters in the mockumentary television series We Can Be Heroes, Summer Heights High, and Angry Boys.

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