Chris Newman (born 16 December 1987) is an Irish actor with roles in films Song for a Raggy Boy[1] and Perrier's Bounty and TV series The Clinic, Love is the Drug,[2] Stardust, Love/Hate and Red Rock.
When he was thirteen, he auditioned six times for Aisling Walsh's feature film, Song for a Raggy Boy, before eventually being cast in the role of Patrick Delaney.
In 2003, Newman landed a role in the TV series, The Clinic, alongside a young Saoirse Ronan, who played his sister.
In 2010, Newman had a small part in the comedy gangster film, Perrier's Bounty, 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.