Chris Walley (born 21 June 1995) is an Irish actor. He is best known for his role as Jock O'Keeffe in the comedy film The Young Offenders (2016), for which he won an IFTA Award, and its subsequent RTÉ and BBC Three series.
Chris Walley was born in Wales, in 1954, and grew up in northern England. He received a Bachelor of Science in geology from Sheffield University and a Phd from the University of Wales, Swansea.
Before taking up writing and editing full time, Chris Walley spent twenty years working as a geologist. He lectured at the American University of Beirut for eight years (1980?84; 1994?8) where he had various memorable encounters with guns…