---
name: "Kris Hitchen"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kris-hitchen"
fi1m_id: "kris-hitchen"
imdb_id: "nm1106944"
tmdb_id: 2188560
wikidata_id: "Q112562404"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "28 April 1974"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-07T20:00:03.739998+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Kris Hitchen

## Identity

Kris Hitchen

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kris-hitchen
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kris-hitchen
- **IMDb ID:** nm1106944
- **TMDB ID:** 2188560
- **Wikidata ID:** Q112562404
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris_Hitchen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112562404, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1106944/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2188560

Actor. Born 28 April 1974 in Salford, Lancashire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 28 April 1974, Salford, Lancashire, England, UK
- **Active:** 2019–present
- **Also known as:** Кріс Хітченс
- **Average Fi1m score:** 70, as actor, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 82 (1), 2020s 67 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 70 to 70 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 1 of 3 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Crime 2, Horror 1, Thriller 1
- **Screen time:** 4 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $86m across 2 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kris_Hitchen, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q112562404, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1106944/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2188560

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Sorry We Missed You*](https://film.one/film/sorry-we-missed-you.md) (82)
- **AMC+:** [*The Long Shadow*](https://film.one/tv/the-long-shadow.md) (74)

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## Fi1m on Kris Hitchen

> Kris Hitchen's strength is making a hard-pressed character someone worth spending time with. His humour in *Sorry We Missed You* gives us reasons to care before the trouble mounts, and remains our strongest reason to seek him out.

In the customer encounters in *Sorry We Missed You* (2019), Kris Hitchen gives Ricky room to be funny. The job brings its difficulties, but he lets us meet the man doing it. We warmed to him in these exchanges, because his humour made the family scenes feel as though they concerned someone we knew. It is an approachable performance, and the film needs it.

The lead in Ken Loach's film was his breakthrough; much of the work since has kept him among working people and everyday professionals. *Trigger Point* (2022) and *The Long Shadow* (2023), in which he plays DC John Nunn, take him into television thrillers and procedural drama. *Speak No Evil* (2024), directed by James Watkins, gives him a smaller part as Mike in a horror remake. These are different settings, though we would still send someone to Ricky first.

Hitchen has described Loach's hands-off approach as a way of building confidence until the actor becomes less conscious of the cameras. The performance in *Sorry We Missed You* is relaxed enough to accommodate humour without softening the frustration. There is a limit to what that can repair: the accumulated setbacks sometimes feel too carefully arranged. We recommend the film with that reservation, though it is the writing that strains our patience rather than Hitchen. He has already made the family worth following by then.

The comedy Hitchen brings to Mike suggests a useful way forward in smaller roles. Rather than settling for a standard moody horror figure, he finds room for a little personality. *Speak No Evil* is strongest in its uncomfortable social encounters; when the violence takes over, it becomes more ordinary and less frightening. That limits our enthusiasm for the film, however welcome his contribution. Start with *Sorry We Missed You*, where he has time to let us enjoy Ricky's company before we worry about him.

## 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).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Speak No Evil* (2024), Fi1m 66, as Mike — [page](https://film.one/film/speak-no-evil.md)
- *The Long Shadow* (2023), Fi1m 74, as DC John Nunn — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-long-shadow.md)
- *Trigger Point* (2022), Fi1m 60, as John Hudson — [page](https://film.one/tv/trigger-point.md)
- *Sorry We Missed You* (2019), Fi1m 82, as Ricky — [page](https://film.one/film/sorry-we-missed-you.md)

## Complete filmography (21)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Frostbite* (2026), Actor
- *Lynley* (2025), series, as DI Derek Horwood
- *Unmoored* (2024), as Mark
- *Gone Fishing* (2024), as Pete
- *Contact Hours* (2024), as The Caretaker
- *Cul-de-sac* (2024), as Terry
- *Speak No Evil* (2024), as Mike — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/speak-no-evil.md)
- *Domino Day* (2024), series, Actor
- *The Long Shadow* (2023), series, as DC John Nunn — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-long-shadow.md)
- *Great Yarmouth: Provisional Figures* (2022), as Richard
- *Trigger Point* (2022), series, as John Hudson — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/tv/trigger-point.md)
- *Four Lives* (2022), series, as Tom Walgate
- *Crime* (2021), series, as Robert Ellis
- *Hollow* (2021), as Niall Lavin
- *Lilias Adie* (2021), as Bailee
- *The War Below* (2021), as Harold Stockford
- *The North Water* (2021), series, as Barraclough
- *Anne Boleyn* (2021), series, as Duke of Norfolk
- *Pink Bag* (2021), Actor
- *Trucker's Atlas* (2019), as Rob
- *Sorry We Missed You* (2019), as Ricky — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/sorry-we-missed-you.md)

## Gallery

- ![Kris Hitchen](https://film.one/media/person/10978/gallery-8bc7420d2003.jpg) Kris Hitchen — Image via TMDB
- ![Kris Hitchen](https://film.one/media/person/10978/gallery-bb76f9a306fe.jpg) Kris Hitchen — Image via TMDB

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