Chris Fountain

Plays Justin Burton

Chris was born in Bradford West Yorkshire on 3 September, 1987 and grew up with his single mum Lynda in the Wibsey area of the city. Chris joined the Buttershaw St Paul’s am-dram society when he was just six and caught the acting bug, later attending drama classes at the Carol Godby Theatre Workshop in Bury, Lancashire and studying drama at Intake High School in Leeds.

As well as being an accomplished actor, Chris has also dabbled in music and he plays the drums and was also in a boyband called Nau-T when he was a teenager.
Before starring as Justin in Hollyoaks, Chris appeared in several TV shows, including The Royal, Burn It, Where the Heart Is, Blood Strangers and Bob & Rose. Chris has also appeared in musical theatre and starred as La Gavroche in Les Miserables and the Artful Dodger in Oliver! at Bradford’s Alhambra Theatre.

In 2006 he was teamed up with former S-Club singer Jo O’Meara for the celebrity singing show Just the Two of Us and he also showed off his ice-skating skills in the third series of ITV1’s Dancing On Ice competition, coming second to former Hear’Say singer Suzanne Shaw.

Chris, who has a house in the West Derby area of Liverpool, won the best actor gong at the British Soap Awards in 2008 and has been nominated in the ‘sexiest male’ category several years running. His mum Lynda now runs his fan club from her Bradford home.