Biography
Kris Hitchen is an English actor. Born in Salford on 28 April 1974, he trained in ballet and musical theatre as a child and appeared in local stage productions. After an early attempt to enter acting, he worked as a plumber for over twenty years before returning to the profession around the age of 41.
Hitchen gained recognition for his lead performance as Ricky Turner in Ken Loach's Sorry We Missed You (2019), for which he received a nomination for Best Actor at the British Independent Film Awards. Subsequent credits include roles in the television series The North Water (2021), Anne Boleyn (2021), Trigger Point (2022) and The Long Shadow (2023), and the films The War Below (2021), Four Lives (2022) and Speak No Evil (2024).
