Chris Miles (Skins)

Christopher "Chris" Miles is a fictional character in the British teen drama Skins, portrayed by Joe Dempsie.

In "Tony", Chris is convinced by Maxxie Oliver to go to a "big gay night out" along with Anwar Kharral, but being bored, they eventually go to Abigail Stock's party instead, where he and a Polish girl have wild sex.

He wakes up one morning having taken viagra which he did not need the night before, and comes downstairs to find his mum has run away and given him £1,000 to live off.

Jal Fazer takes him to see his dad, who doesn't want anything to do with him or his mother, who is implied to be mentally unstable.

Once he finishes telling Jal his story, he stands up, revealing that the gravestone he was sitting at is in fact his older brother's.

After fellow teacher, Tom, talks badly to Angie - whom he could not seduce – Chris tries to cheer her up, and they end up kissing, which leads to sex.

Eventually, Chris takes Angie's engagement ring, and is confronted by Merve and two of his friends, and told to give it back.

After she runs away, Chris comes to the conclusion that she loves him, and thus earns a punch from Merve, starting a minor brawl.

In the first episode of the second season, Chris is seen with Maxxie and Jal trying to comfort and look after Tony Stonem, following his accident.

After this, he goes on the camping trip for Michelle Richardson's birthday, and is attracted to her stepsister, Scarlett, and spends the weekend complimenting her and looking at her breasts.

Chris opens the bathroom door to leave and finds Jal outside, and she realises what has happened between him and Angie.

In episode eight, Jal returns from her audition to find Chris has been taken to hospital because he has suffered a subarachnoid haemorrhage, a result of the hereditary condition that his brother died of previously.

Jal tells a comatose Chris that she is pregnant and gives him her lucky coin to take into an operation.

In the series' penultimate episode, Chris's mother reappears but can't bear to visit him because his brother died from the same condition he has.

After Chris's father forbids Chris's friends from attending his funeral (because in his opinion, they are the reason he had changed, and he doesn't want his reputation ruined in front of some relatives from as far as Basingstoke), Tony and Sid Jenkins decide to steal his body to hold their own funeral.

He fell for four minutes and thirty-six seconds, reaching seven hundred and forty miles per hour before opening his parachute five kilometers above the Earth.

And that's why - and that's why,.......we, we loved him.”After Jal had finished her speech (which Chris' father listened to over the funeral proceedings), the friends set off several bright pink fireworks, to say goodbye in their own way.

Dempsie on the stage in Skins party (2007)