Chris Walley: From the Young Offenders to a Victorian mystery thriller 

The Cork actor is busier than ever, with a play just opened in London, and new film Lies We Tell hitting cinemas, writes Esther McCarthy

Chris Walley in Lies We Tell.

Chris Walley has a first holy communion journal in which he wrote about his desire to be an actor. When he was as young as seven, he and his two friends would rehearse their own plays and perform them for their classmates.

There was never anything else he wanted to do and as a child, it was born out of a desire to make people laugh. “I think I just liked the attention when I was younger, making people laugh and people watching me,” he says. “I was kind of lucky in that way, there was nothing else I ever wanted to do. Obviously that can be a big thing for young people, trying to figure out what they're going to do with their life. I never really had that question.”