Chris Miles

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Chris Miles
Joe Dempsie as Chris Miles
First appearance	"Tony"
Centric episodes	"Chris"
Information
Gender	Male
Age	17
Year of birth	1989
Occupation	Student
Portrayed by	Joe Dempsie
Created by	Bryan Elsley and Jamie Brittain

Chris Miles is a fictional character in the television series Skins portrayed by Joe Dempsie.

[edit] Characterisation

Chris's character is initially portrayed as being very into pills and as being something of a party animal, but at the same time has other layers to his personality. According to the official Skins website, he will "smoke/screw/rob/snort anything".^[1] He is very keen on going to his psychology lessons as he has feelings for his teacher, Angie, who is described as being "out of this world" in Chris's eyes.^[1] He is also shown as having possessed a great admiration of his late older brother and feels like he cannot compare to him.^[2] He also enjoys giving pills to his fish.^[2]

[edit] Character history

In "Tony" he is convinced by best friend Maxxie, to go to a "big gay night out" along with Anwar, but being bored they eventually go to Abigail Stock's party instead, where he and an overweight Polish girl have wild sex. His flirtatious relationship with his Welsh psychology teacher, Angie, is also made apparent. In "Cassie" he accidentally sees Angie naked in the teachers' showers, and later apologises.

The episode "Chris" develops his character the most. He wakes up one morning haven taken viagra which he did not need the night before, and comes downstairs to find his mum has run away and given him £1000 pounds to live off of. After wasting the money on a huge party, and embarrassing himself with his hard on in front of Angie who came to the party, he finds himself homeless after he is kicked out by a squatter who is living in his strip-downed house, which he had to sell the contents of.

Chris is homeless and naked. He walks to school naked and goes to Angie for help and advice. His friends arrive and give him clothes, which Cassie and Maxxie charmed from boys in Unseen Skins' accompanying episode "A Friend in Need". Jal takes him to see his dad who doesn't want anything to do with him or his mother, who is implied to be mentally unstable. Chris accidentally drops his baby half-brother, and runs as fast as he can to the graveyard, where he explains to Jal about his big brother, Peter, who is dead. In the episode's climax, he is put up to live in a dorm room by a sympathetic Angie.

Eventually, in "Maxxie and Anwar", Chris and Angie admit their feelings for each other. After fellow teacher Tom talks badly to Angie - who he could not seduce, Chris tries to cheer her up and they end up kissing, which leads to sex. They are caught by Maxxie, who is visibly shocked and hurriedly closes the door.

Chris and Angie's relationship progresses throughout the series, until the series finale, where the return of Angie's fiancée Merve completely destroys their relationship, Chris realising he may lose Angie for good. He concludes that Merve is "obviously gay", after watching a video tape of Angie's showing Merve as a campy weatherman on Australian television. Eventually Chris takes Angie's engagement ring, and is confronted by Merve and two of his friends, and told to give it back. Chris denies he has it, and it is only when Angie eventually bursts in, and asks Chris to return it, does he comply. However, when he gives the ring back, Chris drops it, probably accidentally, and kneels down to pick it up, causing Anwar's uncle to think that Chris is proposing. Angie takes the ring, and runs off, leaving both Chris and Merve opposite one another. After she runs away, Chris comes to the conclusion that she loves him, and thus earns a punch from Merve, starting a minor brawl. In the closing montage, the two are seen staring at each other with sad expressions through a window.

[edit] References

Skins
General	Episode list • Unseen Skins episodes • Soundtrack
Characters	Tony Stonem • Sid Jenkins • Cassie • Jal Fazer • Chris Miles Maxxie • Anwar Kharral • Michelle Richardson • Effy Stonem • Abigail Stock