Chris England

Chris England is a writer and actor whose best-known work is the play An Evening With Gary Lineker, co-written with Arthur Smith, which was a success in the West End and nominated for an Olivier award. A television film of the play starred Clive Owen, Martin Clunes and Caroline Quentin, and won the Prix Italia. His next play, Breakfast with Jonny Wilkinson, enjoyed successful runs in London and Edinburgh, and was released as a cinema film in 2013, with the DVD out in June.                     

Chris appeared in the Oscar-nominated film Lagaan, and wrote a book, Balham to Bollywood, about the experience, as well as a follow up, No More Buddha Only Football, about the 2002 football World Cup in Japan. He worked with Al Murray on the record-breaking best-selling comedy book The Pub Landlord’s Book of British Common Sense, and the follow up Think Yourself British, as well as three series of the British Comedy award-winning show Al Murray’s Happy Hour for ITV.

Other writing and performing includes the spoof ‘soccumentary’ television movie Bostock’s Cup, as well as The Preventers, Blind Men, Murder Most Horrid, Harry Hill’s TV Burp, Dare To Believe, My Funniest Year and Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder for television, and he has also written Seven Day Sunday and The Back End of Next Week for BBC Radio FiveLive.