Chris Geere

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, Roger Clifford in the 2019 film Detective Pikachu, and Kanduu / Slappy the Dummy in the Disney+/Hulu series Goosebumps (2023).

Career 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.

In 2019, Geere joined the global Pokémon universe as Roger Clifford in Legendary Entertainment/Universal Pictures live-action film Pokémon Detective Pikachu alongside Justice Smith, Ryan Reynolds, Kathryn Newton and Bill Nighy.

Geere recurred on ABC's Modern Family as Haley and then Alex's love interest Professor Arvin Fennerman; as Joel, the well-meaning but toxic lead in the BBC and Showtime's dark comedic limited series, Ill Behaviour, opposite Tom Riley and Lizzy Caplan; Channel 4's This Way Up starring Sharon Horgan and Aisling Bea; The First Team with Will Arnett; and on A Million Little Things as Allison Miller's new roommate/love interest Jamie.

After recurring in season 5, Geere joined the cast of This Is Us as a series regular for their sixth and final season.

Personal life Geere was born in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. He married Jennifer Sawdon, a singer-songwriter and pianist, in 2010. Their son was born in 2012.

Filmography

Film Year Title Role Notes 2003 Wondrous Oblivion Mrs. Wilson's grandson 2007 Blood and Chocolate Ulf 2008 Lawnchairs & Grappling Hooks Simon Short The Prince & Me: A Royal Honeymoon King Edvard / Eddie Direct-to-video 2010 The Prince & Me: The Elephant Adventure 2011 Endless Abraham Short 2012 Cleanskin Nick 2013 After Earth Hesper Navigator 2014 The Last Showing Jamie 2016 Urge Vick 2018 Deadtectives Sam Whitner The Festival Brother David 2019 Detective Pikachu Roger Clifford / Ditto 2025 Kinda Pregnant Steve

Television Year Title Role Notes 2001 Band of Brothers German Soldier Unknown episodes2002 TLC Medical Student Season 1, episode 6: "Agency Nurse" Casualty Longfellow Season 18, episode 16: "Eat, Drink and Be Merry"2003 Trust Andy Boyd 3 episodes – Season 1, episodes 1, 2 and 3 Adventure Inc. Ben 2 episodes – Season 1, episode 12: "Angel of St. Edmunds" and season 1, episode 13: "Echoes of the Past" Danielle Cable: Eyewitness Josh Harman TV film Reversals Student TV film 2004 The Bill Michael Sparks Season 20, episode 61 2005 Family Affairs Joel Dobson 2 episodes – Season 9, episode 256 and season 9, episode 257 2006 Bombshell Gunner Dean McGowan 7 episodes – Season 1, episodes 1–7 2007–2009, 2011–2012 Waterloo Road Matt Wilding 60 episodes 2008 EastEnders Anton 2 episodes 2010 Hollyoaks Dale Greer 1 episode Missing Lee Beckett Season 2, episode 5 Pete Versus Life Kurt 5 episodes – Season 1, episodes 1–5 Holby City Patrick Wright Season 13, episode 4: "Queen's Gambit"2012 Doctors Tom Malone Season 14, episode 6: "A Little on the Side" Little Crackers Harry Season 3, episode 1: "Joanna Lumley's Little Cracker: Baby, Be Blonde"2013 The Spa Bolek Glodwisky 6 episodes – Season 1, episodes 2–7 Trollied Richard France Series 32014 Death in Paradise Max Leigh Series 3, episode 4 Outnumbered Tommy Series 5, episode 6 2014–2019 You're the Worst Jimmy Shive-Overly Series lead, 62 episodes 2017 Ill Behaviour Joel 3 episodes – Series 1 2018–2020 Modern Family Dr. Arvin Fennerman 9 episodes – Seasons 9–11, recurring role 2019 This Way Up Freddie Recurring role2020 Single Parents Colin 3 episodes The First Team Chris Booth 6 episodes A Million Little Things Jamie Recurring role – Season 3 2020–2022 This Is Us Phillip Guest star (season 5); Main cast (season 6) 2021 Hacks British TV Producer Guest Star – Season 1 2022–2023 Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight Klaus (voice) 10 episodes 2023 Goosebumps Kanduu / Slappy the Dummy 4 episodes