Biography

Chess is a writer/performer from the North East, starring in Meet the Richardsons on UKTV and Dave and a Citroen ad where the most googled phrase is 'what does the Geordie woman say in the Citroen ad?'. Played Hamlet at RCS. Once said 'grey hairs and wrinkles are privileges that should make us happy, because the alternative is death.'
- IMDb mini biography by: Chess Tomlinson

Chess is a writer/performer from the North East, starring in Meet the Richardsons on UKTV and Dave and a Citroen ad where the most googled phrase is 'what does the Geordie woman say in the Citroen ad?'. Played Hamlet at RCS, get it on the gravestone when the time comes. As a screenwriter, part of the BBC Comedy Collective 2025 and TV Foundation New Writers Collective.
- IMDb mini biography by: Chess Tomlinson

Celebrate every wrinkle and grey hair, because aging is an absolute privilege.