Chris Geere

Christopher William Geere (born 18 March 1981) is an English actor. He is known for playing the lead role of Jimmy Shive-Overly in the FX and FXX dark comedy series You're the Worst and Roger Clifford in the 2019 film Detective Pikachu. Career Geere graduated from Guildford School of Acting and began his career on stage opposite Dame Judi Dench in Royal Shakespeare Company's All’s Well That Ends Well. Geere portrayed the character of Music and Drama teacher Matt Wilding in the BBC One school-based drama series Waterloo Road. In January 2009, just as the fourth series of Waterloo Road began airing, Geere said that he would not be returning for the fifth series. Geere broke out to American audiences as Jimmy Shive-Overly, one half of the toxic and self-destructive couple at the heart of Stephen Falk's critically acclaimed comedy You're the Worst for FX and FXX which received 4 Critic's Choice nominations including Best Comedy. You're the Worst ran for five seasons from 2014 to 2019.