# Christopher Briney
**Christopher Briney** (born 1998) is an American actor best known for playing Conrad Fisher on the Prime Video series *The Summer I Turned Pretty* (2022–2025) and for his film roles in *Dalíland* (2022) and the *Mean Girls* movie musical (2024).[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10447374/) He made his professional screen debut in the series and his film debut in [Mary Harron](https://www.edgepedia.org/mary-harron)'s Salvador Dalí drama, and has since moved into stage work, comedy television, and voice performance.[2](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2023-06-09/the-summer-i-turned-pretty-chris-briney-daliland)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Born | 1998; American, raised in Connecticut[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10447374/) • [3](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/christopher-briney-summer-i-turned-pretty-season-2-finale-interview) |
| Breakthrough role | Conrad Fisher on *The Summer I Turned Pretty*, 26 episodes from 2022 to 2025[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10447374/) |
| Film debut | James, an art-world assistant, in Mary Harron's *Dalíland* (2022), opposite Ben Kingsley[2](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2023-06-09/the-summer-i-turned-pretty-chris-briney-daliland) |
| Other screen work | Aaron Samuels in *Mean Girls* (2024); a guest role in *Hacks* season 5; Pascal in *The Julia Set* (2026)[4](https://www.gq.com/story/mean-girls-star-christopher-briney-on-his-whirlwind-present-his-indie-film-past-and-playing-the-love-triangle-guy-again) • [5](https://los40.com/2026/04/27/christopher-briney-de-ser-conrad-fisher-a-dar-vida-a-un-personaje-inspirado-en-harry-styles-en-hacks/) • [1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10447374/) |
| Training | BFA in acting, Pace University, 2020[6](https://www.elitedaily.com/entertainment/christopher-briney-the-summer-i-turned-pretty-season-3-interview) |
| Stage | Off-Broadway debut in the world premiere of Julia Randall's *Dilaria* at the DR2 Theatre, 2025[7](https://ediblehudsonvalley.com/resources-guide/beginners-guide-to-christopher-briney/) |
| Upcoming | Reprises Conrad Fisher in *The Summer I Turned Pretty* movie, in post-production[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10447374/) |
## Early life and training
Briney was born and raised in [Connecticut](https://www.edgepedia.org/connecticut) to parents who had pursued acting themselves. Both moved to New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s to try to build acting careers; they met at an opera workshop and left the city only when supporting a family there became financially unsustainable.[8](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/christopher-briney-new-hollywood-2024) When he told his father he wanted to study acting in college, his father replied that he could not object without being a hypocrite, but warned him it would be hard.[8](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/christopher-briney-new-hollywood-2024)
As a teenager he dreamed of becoming a professional baseball player and briefly considered studying computer science, before discovering acting through a summer theater program in high school.[3](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/christopher-briney-summer-i-turned-pretty-season-2-finale-interview) He has described that program as his first experience of belonging to a group, with six students running the school's plays and musicals.[9](https://elpais.com/gente/2025-09-06/team-conrad-o-team-jeremiah-como-los-actores-christopher-briney-y-gavin-casalegno-han-dividido-internet.html) At 18 he began studying acting at [Pace University](https://www.edgepedia.org/pace-university) in New York, earning his BFA in 2020.[6](https://www.elitedaily.com/entertainment/christopher-briney-the-summer-i-turned-pretty-season-3-interview) There he met his girlfriend of several years, the actor Isabel Machado, and the group of friends with whom he later shared an apartment in Brooklyn.[8](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/christopher-briney-new-hollywood-2024)
Before his first job, he auditioned for about 70 roles without success.[2](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2023-06-09/the-summer-i-turned-pretty-chris-briney-daliland)
## Dalíland
Briney's first acting role came in *Dalíland*, Mary Harron's drama about [Salvador Dalí](https://www.edgepedia.org/salvador-dali)'s twilight years in 1970s New York. In the spring of 2021, a week into production, Harron lost a key actor to another project. Searching for a young performer with the maturity to hold his own opposite [Ben Kingsley](https://www.edgepedia.org/ben-kingsley)'s Dalí, she combed acting-graduate showreels and found the then-unknown Briney, casting him over Zoom as James, an art-world neophyte.[2](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2023-06-09/the-summer-i-turned-pretty-chris-briney-daliland) The film screened as the closing-night film of the [Toronto International Film Festival](https://www.edgepedia.org/toronto-international-film-festival) in 2022.[10](https://www.thewrap.com/christopher-briney-interview-daliland-the-summer-i-turned-pretty-season-2/) Briney has said independent film is where his heart has always been and that working in it was a dream.[10](https://www.thewrap.com/christopher-briney-interview-daliland-the-summer-i-turned-pretty-season-2/)
## The Summer I Turned Pretty
His professional screen debut followed in 2022 as Conrad Fisher, the emotionally guarded older brother at the center of the love triangle in Prime Video's adaptation of [Jenny Han](https://www.edgepedia.org/jenny-han)'s bestselling trilogy, opposite [Lola Tung](https://www.edgepedia.org/lola-tung) as Belly Conklin and [Gavin Casalegno](https://www.edgepedia.org/gavin-casalegno) as Jeremiah Fisher.[11](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/entertainment/summer-i-turned-pretty-movie-prime-video) The role brought him sudden social-media fame and made him the focus of the "Team Conrad" side of the show's fandom.[2](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2023-06-09/the-summer-i-turned-pretty-chris-briney-daliland) • [9](https://elpais.com/gente/2025-09-06/team-conrad-o-team-jeremiah-como-los-actores-christopher-briney-y-gavin-casalegno-han-dividido-internet.html) The series ran three seasons through 2025; its third season reached 70 million viewers globally in its first 70 days.[11](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/entertainment/summer-i-turned-pretty-movie-prime-video) Hours after the season 3 finale, Prime Video announced a concluding feature film, with Briney reprising Conrad; the film was in post-production as of 2026.[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10447374/) • [11](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/entertainment/summer-i-turned-pretty-movie-prime-video)
## Mean Girls and broadening the résumé
The first time Briney received an email offering him an audition for Aaron Samuels in the *Mean Girls* movie musical, he turned it down; he later accepted the role, which streamed on [Paramount+](https://www.edgepedia.org/paramount) in 2024.[4](https://www.gq.com/story/mean-girls-star-christopher-briney-on-his-whirlwind-present-his-indie-film-past-and-playing-the-love-triangle-guy-again) • [8](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/christopher-briney-new-hollywood-2024) He has said he enjoys work centered on text and character and does not need singing or dancing skills, a point he made to *Interview* Magazine.[9](https://elpais.com/gente/2025-09-06/team-conrad-o-team-jeremiah-como-los-actores-christopher-briney-y-gavin-casalegno-han-dividido-internet.html)
He has since taken roles chosen to widen his range. In the comedy *Hacks* he appeared in the season 5 episode "No quiero truchos," playing a younger man clearly inspired by [Harry Styles](https://www.edgepedia.org/harry-styles) whom [Jean Smart](https://www.edgepedia.org/jean-smart)'s Deborah Vance takes an interest in.[5](https://los40.com/2026/04/27/christopher-briney-de-ser-conrad-fisher-a-dar-vida-a-un-personaje-inspirado-en-harry-styles-en-hacks/) His film *The Julia Set* (2026), opposite [Chase Infiniti](https://www.edgepedia.org/chase-infiniti), follows a mathematics student preparing for the country's most challenging math competition.[12](https://www.arcamax.com/entertainment/entertainmenttoday/s-4296425) Upcoming credits listed on IMDb include *Clashing Through the Snow* and *Verity*.[1](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10447374/)
## Stage and voice work
In 2025, at the height of his television fame, Briney made his [Off-Broadway](https://www.edgepedia.org/off-broadway) debut in the world premiere of Julia Randall's play *Dilaria* at the DR2 Theatre, a role he described as taking him out of his comfort zone in a "vulgar and volatile" piece.[7](https://ediblehudsonvalley.com/resources-guide/beginners-guide-to-christopher-briney/) • [13](https://playbill.com/article/video-christopher-briney-on-going-out-of-his-comfort-zone-in-the-vulgar-and-volatile-dilaria) He has also worked in audio, narrating the audiobook for *We'll Always Have Summer* from the *Summer I Turned Pretty* series and starring in the Audible thriller *Influencer* alongside [Isabela Merced](https://www.edgepedia.org/isabela-merced).[7](https://ediblehudsonvalley.com/resources-guide/beginners-guide-to-christopher-briney/)
## Public image
Briney is frequently compared to a young Leonardo DiCaprio, a resemblance amplified when Prime Video posted a side-by-side of Briney in a season 3 scene and DiCaprio in *Titanic* (1997); he and DiCaprio are not related.[14](https://www.glamour.com/story/christopher-briney-leonardo-dicaprio-comparisons-are-going-viral-and-we-cant-unsee-it) • [15](https://publicreport.uk/features/chris-briney-pectus-excavatum-hacks/) He is not on social media, and interviews describe a deliberately low-key private life centered on his Brooklyn neighborhood, his roommates, and golf with his *Summer I Turned Pretty* costar Sean Kaufman.[8](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/christopher-briney-new-hollywood-2024) He has said his end goal is "to make things with the people in my life that I love."[8](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/christopher-briney-new-hollywood-2024)
## References
1. [Christopher Briney, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10447374/)
2. [Why 'Summer I Turned Pretty' heartthrob Christopher Briney went indie for his film debut, Los Angeles Times (2023)](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2023-06-09/the-summer-i-turned-pretty-chris-briney-daliland)
3. [Christopher Briney Talks The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 2 Finale, Teen Vogue (2023)](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/christopher-briney-summer-i-turned-pretty-season-2-finale-interview)
4. [Mean Girls Star Christopher Briney On His Whirlwind Present, GQ](https://www.gq.com/story/mean-girls-star-christopher-briney-on-his-whirlwind-present-his-indie-film-past-and-playing-the-love-triangle-guy-again)
5. [Christopher Briney, de ser Conrad Fisher a dar vida a un personaje inspirado en Harry Styles en 'Hacks', LOS40 (2026)](https://los40.com/2026/04/27/christopher-briney-de-ser-conrad-fisher-a-dar-vida-a-un-personaje-inspirado-en-harry-styles-en-hacks/)
6. [Christopher Briney On The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3, Elite Daily](https://www.elitedaily.com/entertainment/christopher-briney-the-summer-i-turned-pretty-season-3-interview)
7. [Beginner's Guide to Christopher Briney, Edible Hudson Valley (2026)](https://ediblehudsonvalley.com/resources-guide/beginners-guide-to-christopher-briney/)
8. [Christopher Briney on Reneé Rapp, Summer I Turned Pretty Season 3 & Hollywood Next Moves, Teen Vogue (2024)](https://www.teenvogue.com/story/christopher-briney-new-hollywood-2024)
9. [¿'Team Conrad' o 'Team Jeremiah'?, El País (2025)](https://elpais.com/gente/2025-09-06/team-conrad-o-team-jeremiah-como-los-actores-christopher-briney-y-gavin-casalegno-han-dividido-internet.html)
10. [Why Making Dalíland Was a Dream Come True for Christopher Briney, TheWrap (2022)](https://www.thewrap.com/christopher-briney-interview-daliland-the-summer-i-turned-pretty-season-2/)
11. [The Summer I Turned Pretty movie—here's everything to know, About Amazon](https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/entertainment/summer-i-turned-pretty-movie-prime-video)
12. [Christopher Briney gives update on The Summer I Turned Pretty film, ArcaMax/Bang Showbiz (2026)](https://www.arcamax.com/entertainment/entertainmenttoday/s-4296425)
13. [Video: Christopher Briney on Going Out of His Comfort Zone in the 'Vulgar and Volatile' Dilaria, Playbill](https://playbill.com/article/video-christopher-briney-on-going-out-of-his-comfort-zone-in-the-vulgar-and-volatile-dilaria)
14. [Christopher Briney–Leonardo DiCaprio Comparisons Are Going Viral, Glamour](https://www.glamour.com/story/christopher-briney-leonardo-dicaprio-comparisons-are-going-viral-and-we-cant-unsee-it)
15. [Chris Briney: Age, Partner, Pectus Excavatum, Hacks Role, PublicReport](https://publicreport.uk/features/chris-briney-pectus-excavatum-hacks/)
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