Chris O'Dowd

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Type

Person

Country

IE

Active from

1979-10-09

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

45

Total plays

272

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.

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

   · 2012 · cited 49,394x

2. Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome

   · 2001 · cited 18,495x

3. Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data

   · 2012 · cited 17,678x

4. A global reference for human genetic variation

   · 2015 · cited 17,321x

5. Observational Evidence from Supernovae for an Accelerating Universe and a Cosmological Constant

   · 1998 · cited 15,973x

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Key dates

Born

9 October 1979

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Chris

Gender

male

Citizenship

Republic of Ireland

Place of birth

Boyle

Occupation

writer

Educated at

London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art

Languages spoken

English language

Notable work

The IT Crowd

Field of work

acting

Sport

Gaelic football

Image

Chris O'Dowd at British Comedy Awards (cropped).jpg

Number of children

+2

Residence

Margate

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