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Christopher William Geere (born 18 March 1981) is an English actor. He is known for playing the lead role of Jimmy Shive-Overly in the FX and FXX dark comedy series You're the Worst (2014), Roger Clifford in the 2019 film Detective Pikachu, and Kanduu / Slappy the Dummy in the Disney+/Hulu series Goosebumps (2023).
Career
Geere graduated from Guildford School of Acting and began his career on stage opposite Dame Judi Dench in Royal Shakespeare Company's All's Well That Ends Well.
Geere played Music and Drama teacher Matt Wilding in the BBC One school-based drama series Waterloo Road. In January 2009, just as the fourth series of Waterloo Road began airing, Geere said that he would not be returning for the fifth series. He later returned to the show for the seventh series.
Geere replaces Luke Mably as King Edvard in the The Prince and Me sequels (2008–2010).
Geere broke out to American audiences as Jimmy Shive-Overly, one half of the toxic and self-destructive couple at the heart of Stephen Falk's critically acclaimed comedy You're the Worst for FX and FXX which received four Critic's Choice nominations including Best Comedy. You're the Worst ran for five seasons from 2014 to 2019.
In 2019, Geere joined the global Pokémon universe as Roger Clifford in Legendary Entertainment/Universal Pictures live-action film Pokémon Detective Pikachu alongside Justice Smith, Ryan Reynolds, Kathryn Newton and Bill Nighy.
Geere recurred on ABC's Modern Family as Haley and then Alex's love interest Professor Arvin Fennerman; as Joel, the well-meaning but toxic lead in the BBC and Showtime's dark comedic limited series, Ill Behaviour, opposite Tom Riley and Lizzy Caplan; Channel 4's This Way Up starring Sharon Horgan and Aisling Bea; The First Team with Will Arnett; and on A Million Little Things as Allison Miller's new roommate/love interest Jamie.
After recurring in season 5, Geere joined the cast of This Is Us as a series regular for their sixth and final season.
Personal life
Geere was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. He married Jennifer Sawdon, a singer-songwriter and pianist, in 2010. Their son was born in 2012.
Filmography
= Film
== Television
=References
External links
Chris Geere at IMDb
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- Pokémon: Detective Pikachu
- After Earth
- Gamifikasi
- Film di tahun 2019
- Prison Architect
- Chris Geere
- Kinda Pregnant
- This Is Us
- This Is Us season 6
- Urge (film)
- You're the Worst
- Finale (Modern Family)
- The Prince & Me: A Royal Honeymoon
- Detective Pikachu (film)
- List of This Is Us episodes
