Christopher Stollery
Born12 August 1965
Other namesChris Stollery
OccupationActor
Years active1984-

Christopher Stollery (born 12 August 1965) is an Australian television actor. He graduated from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1987.[1] He is known for his role on State Coroner as Sgt. Dermot McLeod.[2] He has had a leading role on The Flying Doctors[1] and a recurring role role on Sea Patrol.[3] He has also had roles on and A Country Practice,[1] All Saints, White Collar Blue and Water Rats. He played the role of Lieutenant Nick Homer in the film A Divided Heart (2005).

Stollery has a lengthy stage career[4] including productions of Hamlet[5] where he played Hamlet,[6] Romeo and Juliet[7] where The Sunday Age's Ken Healy stated "most outstanding are Christopher Stollery as the swaggering Capulet thug, Tybalt".[8] and Macbeth[9] Of which Leonard Radic of The Age states "Christopher Stollery produces plenty of sound and fury, but little else, as Macduff."[10]

Stollery created the short film Dik which won best screenplay at 2011's Flickerfest and the best comedy award at Aspen Shortsfest.[11][12] He had previously created Prick, another short film that made the Flickerfest finals.[13]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Sadlier, Kevin (12 August 1990), "A career that's taking off", Sun Herald
  2. ↑ Longworth, Ken (17 May 2001), "Bard habits hard to break", Newcastle Herald
  3. ↑ Idato, Michael (25 June 2007), "Coast and crew", Sydney Morning Herald
  4. ↑ Christopher Stollery, AusStage
  5. ↑ Hamlet, AusStage
  6. ↑ Healy, Ken (11 April 1993), "Play on power or lack of it - Stage", Sun Herald
  7. ↑ Romeo and Juliet, AusStage
  8. ↑ Healy, Ken (3 May 1993), "Breathing new life into love and death", The Sunday Age)
  9. ↑ Macbeth, AusStage
  10. ↑ Radic, Leonard (24 May 1994), "Shakespeare gets lost in space", The Age
  11. ↑ Keys, Vanessa (15 November 2011), "Stollery has last laugh - RED-CARPET SUCCESS PLUS A DATE WITH CATE BLANCHETT", The Daily Telegraph
  12. ↑ Bates, Rob (11 May 2011), "Top award for Dik", Sydney Central Courier
  13. ↑ Hessey, Ruth (21 February 1997), "Reel cheap ... - Reel keen ... - Reel style - Tropfest 1997", Sydney Morning Herald


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