Christopher Paul "Chris" Bisson (born 21 July 1975) is a British

United Kingdom

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 actor

Actor

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.

Career

Born in Wythenshawe

Wythenshawe

Wythenshawe is a district in the south of the city of Manchester, England.Formerly part of the administrative county of Cheshire, in 1931 Wythenshawe was transferred to the City of Manchester, which had begun building a massive housing estate there in the 1920s to resolve the problem of its inner...

, Manchester

Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...

, Chris Bisson first appeared on television as J.J. in Children's Ward

Children's Ward

Children's Ward is a British children's television drama series produced by Granada Television and broadcast on the ITV network as part of its Children's ITV strand on weekday afternoons...

in 1990. He went on to appear in Prime Suspect and Holby City

Holby City

Holby City, stylised as Holby Ci+y, is a British medical drama television series that airs weekly on BBC One.The series was created by Tony McHale and Mal Young as a spin-off from the established BBC medical drama Casualty, and premiered on 12 January 1999...

, but he is most recognized for his roles as Saleem Khan in East is East

East is East (film)

East Is East is a 1999 British black comedy/drama film, written by Ayub Khan-Din and directed by Damien O'Donnell. It is set in a British household of mixed-ethnicity, with a British Pakistani father and an English mother in Salford, Lancashire, in 1971...

, Vikram Desai in Coronation Street

Coronation Street

Coronation Street is a British soap opera set in Weatherfield, a fictional town in Greater Manchester based on Salford. Created by Tony Warren, Coronation Street was first broadcast on 9 December 1960...

, Kash Karib in Shameless

Shameless

Shameless is a British television drama series set in Manchester on the fictional Chatsworth council estate. Produced by Company Pictures for Channel 4, the first seven-episode series aired weekly on Tuesday nights at 10pm from 13 January 2004...

and Jai Sharma

Jai Sharma

Jai Sharma is a fictional character from the British ITV1 soap opera Emmerdale, played by Chris Bisson. He made his first on-screen appearance on 11 September 2009.-Character creation and casting:...

 in Emmerdale

Emmerdale

Emmerdale, is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale , a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, Emmerdale was first broadcast on 16 October 1972...

. He also appeared in the second series

I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! (UK series 2)

The second series of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me out of Here! was broadcast on ITV from 28 April to 12 May 2003. Ant & Dec presented the main show on ITV, whilst Mark Durden-Smith and former contestant Tara Palmer-Tomkinson hosted the spin-off show I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here... Now! on ITV2...

 of I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!.

Bisson appeared in Perfect Day: The Wedding (2005), Perfect Day: The Funeral (2006; Channel Five) and the feature film Stepdad (filmed in February 2007). He participated in the Channel 4 Documentary Empire's Children (2007) tracing his paternal heritage to Trinidad

Trinidad

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 in the West Indies. His recent television appearances have been on the Valentine's Day 2009 episode of Casualty

Casualty (TV series)

Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...

, and on the latest series of Hotel Babylon

Hotel Babylon

Hotel Babylon was a BBC television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones, that aired from 19 January 2006 to 14 August 2009, produced by independent production company Carnival Films for BBC One...

.

He returned to Shameless in April 2009 for only one episode.
In September 2009, Bisson joined the cast of Emmerdale

Emmerdale

Emmerdale, is a long-running British soap opera set in Emmerdale , a fictional village in the Yorkshire Dales. Created by Kevin Laffan, Emmerdale was first broadcast on 16 October 1972...

as part of the newly cast Sharma family.

He and his family appeared on celebrity family fortunes in October 2011 winning £10,000 for charity.

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