Kris Hitchen

Acting

Born April 28, 1974, Salford, Lancashire, England, UK

Kristian Bartholomew Hitchen is an English actor, best known for his role in the Ken Loach directed feature Sorry We Missed You for which he received a nomination for best actor at the British Independent Film Awards. Born in Salford on 28 April 1974, Hitchen studied dancing as a child and tried to break into acting after leaving school but, after meeting his wife, he left the industry and started a plumbing business. He returned to acting after visiting a retreat just before his 40th birthday and had small roles in 4 O'Clock Club and Coronation Street before landing the part of Ricky in Ken Loach's Sorry We Missed You. He has since appeared in Anne Boleyn as the Duke of Norfolk, The Long Shadow, Trigger Point and the film Speak No Evil alongside James McAvoy.

Filmography

• 2026Frostbite
• Great Yarmouth: Provisional Figures — Richard
• Lynley — DI Derek Horwood
• 2024Contact Hours — The Caretaker
• 2024Cul-de-sac — Terry
• Domino Day
• 2024Gone Fishing — Pete
• 2024Speak No Evil — Mike
• 2024Unmoored — Mark
• The Long Shadow — DC John Nunn
• Four Lives — Tom Walgate
• 2022Great Yarmouth: Provisional Figures — Richard
• Trigger Point — John Hudson
• Anne Boleyn — Duke of Norfolk
• Crime — Robert Ellis
• 2021Hollow — Niall Lavin
• 2021Lilias Adie — Bailee
• 2021Pink Bag
• The North Water — Barraclough
• 2021The War Below — Harold Stockford
• 2019Sorry We Missed You — Ricky
• 2019Trucker's Atlas — Rob