Chris Newman

(2016) A Dangerous Fortune – David Greenbourne

(2016) The Legend of Harry and Ambrose – Seáneen

(2015–present) Red Rock – Detective Garda Rory Walsh

(2014) Shooting for Socrates – Norman Whiteside

After a summer of filming with Aidan Quinn, Iain Glen and Marc Warren, Newman landed a role in the TV series, The Clinic, alongside a young Saoirse Ronan, who played his sister. For the next few years, he juggled school work with leading roles in Love is the Drug, Stardust and Aisling's Diary. In 2009, he teamed up with Robert Sheehan for the second time in the crime-drama Love/Hate. He had worked previously with Sheehan on Song for a Raggy Boy. In 2010, he had a small part in the comedy gangster film, Perrier's Bounty, also starring Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson and Jim Broadbent before working with Joe Flanigan and John Rhys-Davies on the sci-fi TV movie, Ferocious Planet. In 2012 he played William Kelly, an assistant electrician in Saving the Titanic alongside Andrew Simpson, his co-star in Song for a Raggy Boy. Chris Newman made his debut in the Abbey Theatre in February with two twenty-minute plays about love, life and relationships called Love in a Glass Jar and Ribbons. In 2013 he appeared in Quirke. Since 2015, Newman has played the corrupt Detective Rory Walsh in Red Rock.

(2009) Perrier's Bounty – Teen Joyrider

(2008–2009) Aisling's Diary – Murphy

He appeared in a documentary for Irish television Hollywood Trials in 2008 and starred in a video for Irish band No Roller's debut single "Ocean". His first taste of theatre was when he took the lead role in Chatroom.

(2003) Song for a Raggy Boy – Patrick Delaney 743

(2003) The Clinic – Tommy Geraghty (4 episodes)

(2002–2003) Fair City – Michael Glavin (14 episodes)

Chris Newman (born 16 December 1987) is an Irish actor with roles in films Song for a Raggy Boy and Perrier's Bounty and TV series The Clinic, Love is the Drug, Stardust, Love/Hate and Red Rock.