Christopher William Geere (born 18 March 1981) is an English actor. He is known for playing the lead role of Jimmy Shive-Overly in the FX and FXX dark comedy series You're the Worst (2014), Roger Clifford in the 2019 film Detective Pikachu, and Kanduu / Slappy the Dummy in the Disney+/Hulu series Goosebumps (2023).
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Geere graduated from Guildford School of Acting and began his career on stage opposite Dame Judi Dench in Royal Shakespeare Company's All's Well That Ends Well.
Geere played Music and Drama teacher Matt Wilding in the BBC One school based drama series Waterloo Road. In January 2009, just as the fourth series of Waterloo Road began airing, and Geere said that he would not be returning for the fifth series after he left from the show at the end of fourth series. He later returned to the show for the seventh series in 2011. In 2012, he left Waterloo Road once again, after his character Matt Wilding decided to stay in Rochdale England instead of Scotland.
Geere was cast as King Edvard (replacing Luke Mably) in the romantic comedy film The Prince and Me 3: A Royal Honeymoon (2008) and The Prince and Me 4: The Elephant Adventure (2010) in the sequels The Prince and Me.
Geere broke out to American audiences as Jimmy Shive-Overly, one half of the toxic and self-destructive couple at the heart of Stephen Falk's critically acclaimed comedy You're the Worst for FX and FXX which received four Critic's Choice nominations including Best Comedy. You're the Worst ran for five seasons from 2014 to 2019.
