Chris Mason was born on the 14th of February 1991 in Edge Hill, Liverpool and raised in Broadgreen, Liverpool. He says that becoming an actor was all down to his older brother, Shaun, also an actor. He grew up watching him, first in school plays and eventually in professional productions and remembers him being in the final series of 'Brookside' when he was about 17. Watching him was the inspiration for Chris to become an actor as Shaun gave him the confidence to believe he could get up and do it. Chris says, "I tried to learn on the job, as it were. My first professional sort of 'gig' was a touring job with Off the Ground Theatre company, which is based on the Wirral. It was a summer tour of Ireland, doing an outdoor performance of 'Cyrano de Bergerac'. I was about 17 years old and it was more fun than serious work. After that, my first kind of big job in Liverpool was at the Royal Court in 'Our Day Out'. I was very lucky to be involved with that and to work with Willy Russell. I loved doing it and it was my big start, at least locally." Doing some stand up comedy in Liverpool, from a random workshop day, and a lot of theatre in the North West with the company No Place Productions, he even visited prisons to do workshop theatre with the inmates. His first screen acting credit was the daytime TV show 'Justice' (2011) which was shot in Liverpool. Although it was a guest appearance, it was his first TV role and he got to work with some great Liverpool actors like Jake Abraham (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels), Gary Mavers (Peak Practice) and Jodie Comer was in his episode as well. He then got lucky and bumped into an agent at a press night for a production of 'A Clockwork Orange', his brother was doing in Glasgow and got her card. She was with a big agency in London and took a chance on him. Small TV roles followed such as 'The Fades' (2011), 'Coming Up' (2012) and 'Lightfields' (2013) and then his first film role in 'Vampire Academy' (2014), as he had eventually moved down to London to be closer to the industry. having done the movie called 'Legend' (2015), a Kray twins' biopic, a US management firm showed interest in him and he started getting some auditions with them encouraging him to come out to the States for a couple of months. So, with another actor who he'd done the vampire movie with, they bundled their way through a month or two in LA. which really opened his eyes.
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| as Leo Humphries in the ITV drama Broadchurch |
On his return to the UK he had a couple of good months job-wise, in 2016 appearing in 'Between Two Worlds', 'Wonderkid' and 'Broadchurch' (2017), gasping to get back to LA. he was able to solidify a visa there after booking an independent movie called 'Mad Genius' (2017) and it was on the set of the film where he met his wife-to-be, Spencer Locke, proposed to her in 2016, and the pair later married in 2017. Having worked with Sasha Pieterse on 'The Honor List' (2018), he again met up with her on 'Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists' (2019), an American mystery television series. 'The Resident' (2020) and 'Dirty John' (2020) followed before, in January 2021, Chris was cast in a recurring role for the fifth season of the TV series 'Riverdale' as Chad Gekko, Veronica's Wall Street husband. Then, 'The American Guest' (2021) which follows the journey of former US president Teddy Roosevelt with Chris playing the the part of Kermit Roosevelt in 4 of the episodes. Smaller parts followed in 'Law & Order: Organised Crime' (2021) and then 'Killing It' (2022) and 'FBI: Most Wanted' (2022) before, in 2024, he portrayed a fictionalized version of John Lennon in the Season 14 episode "The Devil's Chord," which involved The Beatles in a story about music being stolen by a villain named Maestro. Chris said, "Nobody told me there'd be days like these. A younger me could only have dreamt of playing a hometown icon."
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| as Keiran Atreides in HBO’s Dune: Prophecy |
Then in another lucky moment he recalls, "I was lucky enough, through my UK agent, to pick up an audition for the show. The casting director for 'Dune: Prophecy' (2024) is Julie Harkin, who cast me in a show called 'The Fades' maybe 10 or 11 years ago. It starred Daniel Kaluuya and won a BAFTA for best drama series. I had a small part in it and was very lucky that Julie thought of me for 'Prophecy'. I sent off a couple of tapes and it was a little unusual because you don’t really know what’s going on but I was very thankful to eventually get the phone call to say I’d booked the role. Shooting in Budapest for five months and I loved every second of it. The studios are crazy and the crews are really talented. It was a really fun, collaborative process. There’s some amazing British actors involved including fellow scouser Cathy Tyson. She was really wonderful. Getting to hang out with her was really cool."
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