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Chris O'Dowd
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 7
Top works
- Four Fantastic Middle-Grade Reads in One Awesome Sampler!
- Metiendo la pata
- Moone Boy and the Marvellous Activity Manual
- Fish Detective
- Moone Boy - Der Fischdetektiv
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Film & TV
Acting · Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland
Christopher O'Dowd (born 9 October 1979) is an Irish actor and comedian. He received wide attention as Roy Brenneman, one of the lead characters in the Channel 4 comedy The IT Crowd, which ran for four series from 2006 to 2010. He has starred in films including Gulliver's Travels (2010), Bridesmaids, Friends with Kids (2011), Cuban Fury (2014), Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016)…
Known for
- On the Edge — (voice)2027
- The Sheep Detectives — Mopple (voice)2026
- Me, Myself, and Mary2026
- Saturday Night Live UK — Self - Cameo (uncredited)2026
- TFI Unplugged — Self2026
- National Theatre Live: The Brightening Air — Dermot2025
- Small Town, Big Story — Jack E. McCarthy2025
- Puffin Rock and the New Friends — Narrator (voice)2023
- The Big Door Prize — Dusty2023
- My Father's Dragon — Kwan the Macaque (voice)2022
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Chris O'Dowd (born 9 October 1979) is an Irish comedian and actor. He is best known for playing Roy Trenneman in British sitcom The IT Crowd. He has also appeared in several Hollywood films, including Gulliver's Travels and Bridesmaids, the latter of which "has thrown him into the position as one of Hollywood's leading men almost overnight with the film making over $100 million dollars at the US box office." O'Dowd was born in Sligo and raised in Boyle, County Roscommon, in the West of Ireland.
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,115x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,623x
- Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,974x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,797x
- Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant
· 1998 · cited 16,278x
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