Chris Cox

Chris Cox (born 21 January 1984 in Bristol) is a mentalist magician – a self-proclaimed "mind reader who can't read minds". On television he stars in "Chris Cox's Mind Blowing Magic" on CBBC & BBC iPlayer and is "The Geek" in the award winning Killer Magic on BBC Three. He also stars in touring stage show The Illusionists and in the West End in Impossible. He is the only mind reader in history to play Broadway, London's West End and Sydney Opera House. In his radio career Chris was the writer and producer for Matt Edmondson on BBC Radio 1; the assistant producer on The Chris Moyles Show. Chris stars as The Mentalist in The Illusionists and has performed as part of their 2015 season at the Moon Palace Arena in Cancun, 2018 sold out South Africa tour at The Grand West Arena (Cape Town) and The Teatro at Montecasino Johannesburg and the 2018 US Tour performing at venues such as Starlight Theatre (Kansas City, Missouri), Fox Theatre (St. Louis) and Bass Performance Hall. In December 2018 & January 2019 he starred in The Illusionists Australian Tour at Canberra Theatre, Sydney Opera House. Queensland Performing Arts Centre and Regent Theatre, Melbourne. For spring 2019 Chris headlined The Illusionists Experience at the Eldorado Showroom in Reno before returning for an unprecedented third West End run this time in London's Shaftesbury Theatre with The Illusionists Direct From Broadway. Chris is now the only mind-reader in history to have played Broadway, London's West End and Sydney Opera House. During the 2019 Holiday Season Chris made his Broadway Debut in The Illusionists - Magic Of The Holiday's at the Neil Simon Theatre on Broadway during which he was a guest on NBC's Today show. In 2020 he embarks on another US Tour with The Illusionists In 2018 his CBBC and BBC iPlayer series "Chris Cox's Mind Boggling Magic" launched with ten episodes where Chris reads the minds of children and some of the stars of The Dumping Ground including Annabelle Davis. Chris starred as Muddles alongside her father, Warwick Davis as Muddles in Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs Pantomime at New Victoria Theatre in 2016. Cox performed his first major show – entitled Chris Cox He Can Read Minds? – at the 2006 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Cox's second show, Everything Happens for a Reason ran at the Gilded Balloon during the 2007 Fringe before a one off performance at the Arts Theatre in London's West End.