Chris Coghill
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Christopher "Chris" Coghill (born 11 April 1975) is an actor and writer from Prestwich
, Greater Manchester
, England
. Coghill is best known for his deep voice and has a history of portraying criminals.
, Burn It
, Hotel Babylon
, The Bill
, New Tricks, Doctors, Holby City
, Heartbeat, Secret Diary of a Call Girl
, Waterloo Road
and Cold Feet
. He has also appeared in films such as Someone Else
, The Banker, Molly's Idle Ways, Slide and 24 Hour Party People
. In 2007, he appeared in an episode of BBC
drama series, Waterloo Road
. His character Shaun appeared in one episode and was seen grooming runaway pupil Chlo Grainger into prostitution.
In 2008, Coghill was cast in EastEnders
in the controversial role of Tony King
, Bianca Jackson
's boyfriend. His first episodes were televised in September 2008. Over the course of three months, it emerged that the character had been having a relationship with Bianca's stepdaughter Whitney Dean
for three years, starting when Whitney was just 12 years old. He was also seen 'grooming' Lauren Branning
. The storyline ended in December 2008 when Whitney told Bianca, who then told the police. Tony was arrested, thus ending Coghill's three-month stint in the show. Coghill later revealed in an interview that he rejected EastEnders producer Diedrick Santer's request for him to grow a moustache. Coghill reprised the role for the character's trial, which was screened in December 2009.
After leaving EastEnders, Coghill appeared as ambulance driver Bobby Sheridan in the medical drama series The Royal
, from 14 December 2008.
Coghill performed several gigs in the North of England in which he appeared as 'MC COGGERS'.
since April 2005, having met her on the set of Burn It. Their wedding was held at Pembroke Lodge, in Richmond Park
, London, and they honeymooned in Malaysia. They now reside in London
and recently adopted a daughter, Billie.
Prestwich
Prestwich is a town within the Metropolitan Borough of Bury, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies close to the River Irwell, north of Manchester city centre, north of Salford and south of Bury....
, Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.6 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
. Coghill is best known for his deep voice and has a history of portraying criminals.
Career
Coghill has appeared in television programs such as Holby Blue, ShamelessShameless
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...
, Burn It
Burn It
Burn It was a drama series, with touches of dark comedy, following the lives of three twenty-somethings in present-day Manchester.-About:The series followed Carl, Andy and Jon as three self-proclaimed Generation X-ers going through life without any real responsibilities to worry them...
, 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...
, The Bill
The Bill
The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
, New Tricks, Doctors, 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...
, Heartbeat, Secret Diary of a Call Girl
Secret Diary of a Call Girl
Secret Diary of a Call Girl is a British television drama broadcast on ITV2 from 2007-2011 based on the blog and books by the pseudonymous "Belle de Jour," starring Billie Piper as Belle, a high-class London call girl. The series was written by Lucy Prebble, who is also known as the author of The...
, Waterloo Road
Waterloo Road (TV series)
Waterloo Road is an award-winning British television drama series, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, the series focuses on the lives of the school's teacher and students, and confronts social...
and Cold Feet
Cold Feet
Cold Feet is a British comedy-drama television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network. The series was created and principally written by Mike Bullen as a follow-up to his award-winning 1997 Comedy Premiere of the same name. The storyline follows three couples experiencing the...
. He has also appeared in films such as Someone Else
Someone Else (film)
Someone Else is an independent comedy/drama film, charting the conflict a man feels when torn between his safe, sensible girlfriend and a wild new woman he meets....
, The Banker, Molly's Idle Ways, Slide and 24 Hour Party People
24 Hour Party People
24 Hour Party People is a 2002 British film about Manchester's popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records. It was written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Michael Winterbottom...
. In 2007, he appeared in an episode of BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
drama series, Waterloo Road
Waterloo Road (TV series)
Waterloo Road is an award-winning British television drama series, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, the series focuses on the lives of the school's teacher and students, and confronts social...
. His character Shaun appeared in one episode and was seen grooming runaway pupil Chlo Grainger into prostitution.
In 2008, Coghill was cast in EastEnders
EastEnders
EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End...
in the controversial role of Tony King
Tony King
Tony King is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Chris Coghill. He was the partner of established character Bianca Jackson , and a father-figure to her four children...
, Bianca Jackson
Bianca Jackson
Bianca Butcher is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Patsy Palmer. The character was introduced by executive producer Leonard Lewis and appeared initially from 1993 to 1999, when Palmer opted to leave. In 2002 executive producer John Yorke brought the character...
's boyfriend. His first episodes were televised in September 2008. Over the course of three months, it emerged that the character had been having a relationship with Bianca's stepdaughter Whitney Dean
Whitney Dean
Whitney Dean is a fictional character from the BBC One soap opera EastEnders, played by Shona McGarty. The character is the adoptive daughter of long-running character Bianca Jackson , and was introduced in April 2008 when Palmer returned to the series after a six year absence...
for three years, starting when Whitney was just 12 years old. He was also seen 'grooming' Lauren Branning
Lauren Branning
Lauren Branning is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders. She first appeared in the show on 3 July 2006 played by Madeline Duggan, was absent from 23 June to 27 September 2010, and returned as played by Jacqueline Jossa.-Storylines:...
. The storyline ended in December 2008 when Whitney told Bianca, who then told the police. Tony was arrested, thus ending Coghill's three-month stint in the show. Coghill later revealed in an interview that he rejected EastEnders producer Diedrick Santer's request for him to grow a moustache. Coghill reprised the role for the character's trial, which was screened in December 2009.
After leaving EastEnders, Coghill appeared as ambulance driver Bobby Sheridan in the medical drama series The Royal
The Royal
The Royal is a British medical drama series produced by ITV. The show comprises one hour episodes which were normally first aired on ITV in the Sunday early evening slot....
, from 14 December 2008.
Coghill performed several gigs in the North of England in which he appeared as 'MC COGGERS'.
Personal life
Coghill has been married to actress Lisa FaulknerLisa Faulkner
Lisa Tamsin Faulkner is an English actress and television personality.-Early life:Faulkner was educated at Tiffin Girls' School, Kingston upon Thames.When Faulkner was 16, her mother, Julie, died of cancer...
since April 2005, having met her on the set of Burn It. Their wedding was held at Pembroke Lodge, in Richmond Park
Richmond Park
Richmond Park is a 2,360 acre park within London. It is the largest of the Royal Parks in London and Britain's second largest urban walled park after Sutton Park, Birmingham. It is close to Richmond, Ham, Kingston upon Thames, Wimbledon, Roehampton and East Sheen...
, London, and they honeymooned in Malaysia. They now reside in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
and recently adopted a daughter, Billie.
Awards and nominations
- 2003 Royal Television Society North West Awards, Best Performance In A Network Drama, for Burn It
- 2003 British Academy Television Award for Best New Writer, for Clocking Off
- 2009 British Soap AwardsBritish Soap AwardsThe British Soap Awards is an annual awards ceremony to honour the best of British soap operas.The first event took place in 1999 and takes place in May each year. Although it is an ITV production, the events were held at the BBC Television Centre, in London until 2010. The 2011 awards relocated to...
for Villain of the Year, for Tony KingTony KingTony King is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Chris Coghill. He was the partner of established character Bianca Jackson , and a father-figure to her four children...
(EastEnders)
Films
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 24 Hour Party People 24 Hour Party People 24 Hour Party People is a 2002 British film about Manchester's popular music community from 1976 to 1992, and specifically about Factory Records. It was written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and directed by Michael Winterbottom... |
Bez | |
| 2004 | The Banker The Banker The Banker is an English-language monthly international financial affairs publication owned by The Financial Times Ltd. and edited in London... |
Smiling Man | Short film |
| 2007 | Someone Else Someone Else Someone Else may refer to:*Someone Else , 2005 British film*Someone Else , 2004 album by Ira Losco*Someone Else , a song from the album Into by the Finnish band The Rasmus.... |
Matt | |
| 2010 | Freedom Day Freedom Day Freedom Day may refer to one of the following holidays:* Freedom Day on March 25 in Belarus, anniversary of the establishment of the Belarusian People's Republic in 1918... |
Vince | Short film |
| Honeymooner Honeymooner Honeymooner is a 2010 British independent film. The film was directed by Col Spector and filmed in North London, England and nationally released on 20th January 2011.-Plot:... |
Ben | ||
| 2011 | Weekender Weekender The Weekender is a free weekly newspaper covering Torbay and South Devon, published by the Westcountry Publications. The paper is published in two editions; the Torbay edition covers Torquay, Paignton, and Brixham, while the Newton & Teignbridge edition covers Newton Abbot and Kingsteignton. A... |
Writer | |
| Junkhearts | Banker | ||
TV
| Year | Show | Role | Notes | Credit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Cold Feet Cold Feet Cold Feet is a British comedy-drama television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network. The series was created and principally written by Mike Bullen as a follow-up to his award-winning 1997 Comedy Premiere of the same name. The storyline follows three couples experiencing the... |
Zac | 1 episode: #2.4 | |
| 2001 | Heartbeat | Des | 1 episode: The Long Weekend The Long Weekend The Long Weekend is a 2005 Canadian film starring Chris Klein and Brendan Fehr as two brothers, Cooper and Ed Waxman . It also stars Paul Campbell, Chandra West, and Cobie Smulders.-Plot:... |
Christopher Coghill |
| 2002 | 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... |
Ash Hillier | 1 episode: Sweet Love Remembered | |
| 2003 | Doctors | Rob White | 1 episode: Cave Man | |
| Burn It Burn It Burn It was a drama series, with touches of dark comedy, following the lives of three twenty-somethings in present-day Manchester.-About:The series followed Carl, Andy and Jon as three self-proclaimed Generation X-ers going through life without any real responsibilities to worry them... |
Carl Redmond | 1 episode: #1.6 | ||
| 2004 | New Tricks | Christopher Wells | 1 episode: #1.6 | Christopher Coghill |
| Early Doors Early Doors Early Doors is a BBC sitcom written by Craig Cash and Phil Mealey who also appear in the series playing best friends Joe and Duffy. The setting is The Grapes, a small public house in Greater Manchester, where daily life revolves around the issues of love, loneliness and blocked urinals... |
Chris | 1 episode: #2.6 | Christopher Coghill | |
| 2005 | Legless | |||
| 2005–06 | Shameless | Craig | Recurring: 5 episodes | |
| 2006 | The Bill The Bill The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work... |
Matt Finney | 1 episode: #385 | Christopher Coghill |
| Magnolia Magnolia Magnolia is a large genus of about 210 flowering plant species in the subfamily Magnolioideae of the family Magnoliaceae. It is named after French botanist Pierre Magnol.... |
Terry | |||
| 2007 | 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... |
Dan Edwards | 1 episode: #2.7 | |
| Waterloo Road Waterloo Road (TV series) Waterloo Road is an award-winning British television drama series, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 9 March 2006. Set in a troubled comprehensive school in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, the series focuses on the lives of the school's teacher and students, and confronts social... |
Shaun | 1 episode #3.7 | Christopher Coghill | |
| 2007–08 | Holby Blue | Roger Cooper | Recurring: 3 episodes | Christopher Coghill |
| 2008 | Doctors | Mark Sturridge | 1 episode: Walking Wounded | Christopher Coghill |
| Secret Diary of a Call Girl Secret Diary of a Call Girl Secret Diary of a Call Girl is a British television drama broadcast on ITV2 from 2007-2011 based on the blog and books by the pseudonymous "Belle de Jour," starring Billie Piper as Belle, a high-class London call girl. The series was written by Lucy Prebble, who is also known as the author of The... |
Kai | 1 episode: #2.1 | ||
| 2008, 2009 | EastEnders EastEnders EastEnders is a British television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985 and continuing to today. EastEnders storylines examine the domestic and professional lives of the people who live and work in the fictional London Borough of Walford in the East End... |
Tony King Tony King Tony King is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera EastEnders, played by Chris Coghill. He was the partner of established character Bianca Jackson , and a father-figure to her four children... |
Series regular | |
| 2008–09 | The Royal The Royal The Royal is a British medical drama series produced by ITV. The show comprises one hour episodes which were normally first aired on ITV in the Sunday early evening slot.... |
Bobby Sheridan | Recurring: 4 episodes | Christopher Coghill |
| 2009 | Who'll Age Worst | — | Narrator | Christopher Coghill |
| Blue Murder Blue Murder (TV series) Blue Murder is a Canadian crime drama television series, featuring stories that reflected the turbulence of urban life and the crimes that make headlines... |
Liam Whittick | 1 episode: This Charming Man | ||
| 2011 | Hollyoaks Later | Johnny Johnny -Films:* Johnny Angel * Johnny Belinda * Johnny Guitar* Johnny Dangerously* Johnny Handsome* Johnny Be Good* Johnny Mnemonic*Johnny Nitro... |
Recurring: 5 episodes | Christopher Coghill |