Chris O'Dowd | Rotten Tomatoes (2024)

Highest Rated: 100% Puffin Rock and the New Friends (2023)

Lowest Rated: 19% The Starling (2021)

Birthday: Oct 9, 1979

Birthplace: Sligo, Ireland

Although most Americans know him for playing the affable Officer Rhodes in "Bridesmaids" (2011), Chris O'Dowd was already a major star in Britain prior to his breakthrough performance in the Judd Apatow-produced wedding comedy. As the star of the British sitcom, "The IT Crowd" (Channel 4, 2006-2010), O'Dowd played a socially awkward computer geek named Roy. The show made O'Dowd a household name in Britain, and before long he was being courted by Hollywood, appearing in brief but memorable roles in such films as "Pirate Radio" (2009), "Dinner for Shmucks" (2010) and "Gulliver's Travels" (2010). But it was O'Dowd's role as the love interest of Kristen Wiig's character in "Bridesmaids" that made him a bona-fide Hollywood star. That film would go on to gross nearly $300 million at the box office in the summer of 2011, firmly minting Chris O'Dowd as one of the film world's newest big-screen funnymen.

Highest rated movies

91% The Sapphires 90% Bridesmaids 89% The Incredible Jessica James 89% Calvary 85% Love After Love 83% The Double 82% Juliet, Naked 81% Molly's Game

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PIRATE RADIO, (aka THE BOAT THAT ROCKED), Chris O'Dowd, 2009. Ph: Alex Bailey/©Focus Features FRIENDS WITH KIDS, from left: Maya Rudolph, Chris O'Dowd, 2011. ph: Jojo Whilden/©Lionsgate THIS IS 40, l-r: Chris O'Dowd, Megan Fox, Jason Segel, 2012, ph: Suzanne Hanover/©Universal Pictures PIRATE RADIO, (aka THE BOAT THAT ROCKED), Chris O'Dowd, 2009. Ph: Rankin/©Focus Features The 68th Annual Tony Awards, Chris O'Dowd (L), Tony Shalhoub (R), 06/08/2014, ©CBS CALVARY, from left: Orla O'Rourke, Chris O'Dowd, 2014. TM and Copyright ©Fox Searchlight. All rights reserved. MOLLY'S GAME, L-R: JESSICA CHASTAIN, CHRIS O'DOWD, 2017. PH: MICHAEL GIBSON/©STX ENTERTAINMENT MOLLY'S GAME, L-R: JESSICA CHASTAIN, DIRECTOR AARON SORKIN, CHRIS O'DOWD ON SET, 2017. PH: MICHAEL GIBSON/©STX ENTERTAINMENT MOLLY'S GAME, FROM LEFT: JESSICA CHASTAIN, CHRIS O'DOWD, 2017. PH: MICHAEL GIBSON/© STX ENTERTAINMENT THE PROGRAM, Chris O'Dowd, 2015. ph: Larry Horricks/© Entertainment One THE PROGRAM, Chris O'Dowd, 2015. ph: Dean Rogers/© Entertainment One Girls, Jemima Kirke (L), Chris O'Dowd (R), 'It's A Shame About Ray', Season 2, Ep. #4, 02/02/2013, ©HBO The Crimson Petal and White, Chris O'Dowd, ©STARZPR Girls, Chris O'Dowd (L), Jemima Kirke (R), 'I Get Ideas', Season 2, Ep. #2, 01/20/2013, ©HBO The Crimson Petal and White, Chris O'Dowd, ©STARZPR The Crimson Petal and White, Chris O'Dowd, ©STARZPR The Crimson Petal and White, Chris O'Dowd (L), Romola Garai (R), ©STARZPR The 68th Annual Tony Awards, Chris O'Dowd, 06/08/2014, ©CBS THE SAPPHIRES, from left: Shari Sebbens, Chris O'Dowd, Miranda Tapsell, Deborah Mailman, Jessica Mauboy, 2012. ©Weinstein Company MOLLY'S GAME, CHRIS O'DOWD, 2017. PH: MICHAEL GIBSON/©STX ENTERTAINMENT

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Filmography

Movies

Credit
100% 80% Puffin Rock and the New Friends Unknown (Voice),
Narrator
- 2023
40% 86% Slumberland Unknown (Character) - 2022
19% 71% The Starling Jack Maynard (Character) - 2021
No Score Yet 95% Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth Finn's Dad (Voice) - 2020
79% 54% How to Build a Girl Alan "Wilko" Wilkinson (Character) $70.5K 2019
82% 74% Juliet, Naked Duncan Thomson (Character) $3.4M 2018
22% 41% The Cloverfield Paradox Mundy (Character) - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet State of the Union Unknown (Character) - 2018
85% 40% Love After Love Nicholas (Character) $112.3K 2017
81% 84% Molly's Game Douglas Downey (Character) $28.7M 2017
85% 86% Loving Vincent Postman Roulin (Voice) $6.5M 2017
89% 65% The Incredible Jessica James Boone (Character) - 2017
48% 36% Mascots Tommy `Zook' Zucarello (Character) - 2016
65% 60% Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Frank (Character) $87.2M 2016
62% 44% The Program David Walsh (Character) - 2015
78% 78% St. Vincent Brother Geraghty (Character) $44.1M 2014
89% 80% Calvary Jack Brennan (Character) $3.6M 2014
54% 46% Cuban Fury Drew (Character) $90.3K 2014
No Score Yet 85% National Theatre Live: Of Mice And Men Unknown (Character) - 2014
83% 59% The Double Doctor (Character) $200.3K 2013
65% 65% Epic Grub (Voice) $107.5M 2013
91% 76% The Sapphires Dave Lovelace (Character) $2.4M 2012
51% 50% This Is 40 Ronnie (Character) $67.5M 2012
45% 41% 3, 2, 1... Frankie Go Boom Bruce (Character) - 2012
66% 49% Friends With Kids Alex (Character) $7.3M 2011
90% 76% Bridesmaids Rhodes (Character) $169.1M 2011
20% 27% Gulliver's Travels General Edward (Character) $42.8M 2010
35% 61% Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel Ray (Character) - 2009
60% 71% Pirate Radio Simon (Character) $8.0M 2009
No Score Yet 67% Hippie Hippie Shake Felix Dennis (Character) - 2009
No Score Yet 48% Hotel Very Welcome Liam (Character) - 2007
80% 54% Festival Tommy O'Dwyer (Character) - 2005

TV

Credit
86% 75% The Big Door Prize Dusty (Character) 2023-2024
No Score Yet 9% The View Guest 2014 2024
No Score Yet 61% Late Night With Seth Meyers Guest 2014 2018 2023
No Score Yet 19% The Late Late Show With James Corden Guest 2017-2019 2022
85% 77% The Simpsons Seamus (Guest Voice) 2021
No Score Yet No Score Yet Conan Guest 2011-2012 2015 2020
No Score Yet 93% Get Shorty Miles Daly (Character) 2017-2019
No Score Yet 44% The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Guest 2018-2019
67% 44% The Twilight Zone Jeff Storck (Guest Star) 2019
94% 83% State of the Union Tom (Character) 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet Puffin Rock Narrator 2015-2016 2018
No Score Yet 47% The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Guest 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Graham Norton Show Guest 2011 2013 2015-2016
No Score Yet No Score Yet Travel Man: 48 Hours in... Self 2016
No Score Yet 95% Moone Boy Sean Murphy (Character),
Director,
Executive Producer,
Writer
2012 2014-2015
No Score Yet 36% Jimmy Kimmel Live! Guest 2014
No Score Yet 71% Monsters vs. Aliens Dr. co*ckroach (Voice) 2013-2014
85% 88% The IT Crowd Roy (Character) 2006-2008 2010 2013
81% 93% Family Tree Tom Chadwick (Character) 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Late Night With Jimmy Fallon Guest 2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Ellen DeGeneres Show Guest 2013
89% 75% Girls Thomas-John (Guest Star) 2012-2013
No Score Yet No Score Yet Alan Carr: Chatty Man Guest 2012
No Score Yet 64% Family Guy Additional Voices (Guest Voice) 2011-2012
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Crimson Petal and the White William Rackham (Character) 2011
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