Simon Lyndon (born 18 February 1971 in

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) is an English-born

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actor and director who grew up in Fremantle, Western Australia. He is a WAAPA graduate.

Career

Film roles

Lyndon played Jimmy Loughlin in '' Chopper'' with

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, for which he won an AFI award for Best Supporting Actor and a

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Award for best supporting actor. He received AFI nominations for Best Supporting Actor for ''

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'' (as Brett "Ricko" Ricketson) and Best actor in a telefeature or mini-series for his role in '' My Brother Jack''. Other films include ''Fresh Air'', '' Sample People'', '' The Thin Red Line'', ''From the Outside'' ''Caught Inside'', ''Falling into Paradise'', ''The Glenmore Job'' ''

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'' and ''Dust off the Wings'' He has appeared on stage '' That Eye the Sky'', ''

'', ''

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'' and '' Popcorn''.

Television roles

His TV appearances include ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Wildside'', ''

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'' '' Canal Road'' and ''Spirited 2 '' oxtel He has directed Tamarama Rock Surfers production of "Road" featuring among others

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, Jeremy Cumpston, Zena Cumpston and Angie Milliken and Tamarama Rock Surfers production of " Diary of a Madman" starring Alan Morris. Simon also appeared in FOX network show '' Roar'' in 1997 as a tribe leader named Colm. The lead role of Connor Der Kilte was played by fellow Australian and ''

'' co-star

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. In 2011 he played a younger

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in '' Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo'' on ABC 1. He played the miner who died, Larry Knight, in the TV film '' Beaconsfield'' about the 2006 mine disaster. Also in 2011 Simon appeared in ''

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'' in the second series, on Foxtel, playing a ghost known as "The King" or Darren Bonney, who lives in an apartment with a dentist

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who is in love with another ghost resident. Simon played Tintagel Stone in “The Green Mill Murder”, S1:E3 of '' Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries'' in 2012. He also appeared in TV series ''

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'' as a surfing teacher Gumby that year. In 2013 he was in a four-person play called "Anaconda " by Sarah Doyle, with Tamarama Rock Surfers at Bondi Pavilion. In June/July 2017 Simon appeared ''Sunset Strip'', a four-person play by Suzie Miller, performed by Stables Theatre Company at Griffin Theatre in

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. He reprised this role in a tour around Australia by the same company in 2019. He appeared as Emilio the truck business owner in Mystery Road TV Series 2 Episodes 1,2 and 3. He Appeared as the unfortunate Hedwig’s father in the 2021 Netflix series ‘Eden’ and as Twist in ‘Troppo’ the 2022 ABC tv series.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lyndon, Simon Australian male film actors People educated at John Curtin College of the Arts People from Fremantle 1971 births Living people Male actors from Western Australia Edith Cowan University alumni English emigrants to Australia