Chris Orchard

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SKILLS Trained at NIDA, ATYP, Melbourne Theatre Company and others. Extensive television, including several leading roles. Nominated Best Songwriter 2009 Music Aid International Song Contest. numerous song writing awards. Sings well. Constantly touring performer in NSW. Plays guitar well. Released CD 'That's The Way It Goes of 10 compositions July 2009. Several of his songs have either won or been placed highly in international competition. Chris Orchard is a popular and recognizable actor from several successful television series. Chris still continually works both as a musician and actor. He appeared recently as Prime Minister Mike Webber in the TV series 'Prosper' and in 2022 was in 'Ten Pound Poms'. Chris studied at NIDA in the same year as such luminaries as Mel Gibson and Judy Davis. He accumulated credits in Sydney Theatre before moving to Melbourne to work with the MTC. He had already appeared as a lead actor in the soap Young Doctors and was targeted by Crawford Productions for several series including the period drama Carson's Law in which he played the wayward son Tommy Carson with great distinction. Subsequently Chris was offered the lead role in the Channel 9 show 'Prime Time'. He returned to Sydney and was a regular on 'E Street'. Chris has appeared in leading roles in five major television series and has appeared in over 500 episodes of various series. He pursued a simultaneous career on the distribution side of the film business for over 13 years taking management roles with Paramount, Universal Pictures and Polygram records. Chris is also a musician and songwriter and has performed on the Sydney club circuit for over 40 years. He has won several internation song contests. TELEVISION Prosper Ten Pound Poms Gangs of OZ E Street Time Trax Lorimar Television USA Carson's Law Young Doctors Prime time Cop Shop Crawford Prod./Channel 7 Prisoner Grundy Organisation/Channel 10 Special Squad Crawford Productions/Channel 10 Breakers Screentime Channel 10 THEATRE Giving Up The Ghost. Limelight. Dir Rivka Hartman The Man From Muckinupin - MTC - dir. Judith Alexander The Tempest - Old Tote Theatre Co. - dir. Ted Craig The Lower Depths - Krivoy Zob - Old Tote Theatre Co. - dir. Liviu Culei Othello - Cassio - Old Tote Theatre Co. - dir. Ray Omedai A Toast to Melba - John Lemmone - Old Tote Theatre Co. - dir. Ray Omedai Isadora - Gordon Craig - Independent Prod. - dir: Co-Director Macbeth - Duncan - Victorian Arts Council - dir. Mark Gaal Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band - Paradine Paterson - dir. Tom O'Hagen FILM Veov DRIVE (2016) Creswick (2016) Image of Death Greed Journey to Hainan CABARET Extensive appearances in club and music venues as singer/entertainer and compere. COMMERCIALS Soy Joy Wagon Wheels Suncorp Ford Australia Masport Forrest Gump (voice over) Casper the Movie (voice over)