Alex Williams is an Australian actor who played the lead role of

Julian Assange Julian Paul Assange ( ; Hawkins; born 3 July 1971) is an Australian editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. WikiLeaks came to international attention in 2010 when it published a series of leaks provided by U.S. Army i ...

in the 2012 television film '' Underground: The Julian Assange Story''. Originally from the northern

Perth Perth is the list of Australian capital cities, capital and largest city of the Australian states and territories of Australia, state of Western Australia. It is the list of cities in Australia by population, fourth most populous city in Aust ...

suburb of

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, Williams attended

Mount Lawley Senior High School Mount Lawley Senior High School is a public co-educational high day school in the City of Stirling, located in Mount Lawley, a northern suburb of Perth, Western Australia. The school consists of three separate sub-schools: Middle School for Ye ...

's Specialist Visual & Performing Arts (SVAPA) Program before moving to St Stephen's School in neighbouring Duncraig where he graduated in 2008. He then attended the

Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) at Edith Cowan University (ECU) was established in 1980 to provide performing arts tuition. WAAPA (commonly pronounced "whopp-a") operates as a part of ECU, located at the ECU campus in ...

. His first audition after graduation was for the role of Assange. His performance alongside experienced actors

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and

Anthony LaPaglia Anthony LaPaglia (, ; born 31 January 1959) is an Australian actor. He is best known for his role as Jack Malone in the television drama ''Without a Trace'' (2002–2009), for which he received a Golden Globe Award in 2004. LaPaglia won a Pri ...

was critically acclaimed. In 2014, Williams appeared in the 2014 Australian film ''

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'' as a supporting character named AJ. In 2016, he played Romeo in

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's production of ''

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''. In 2016, Williams played the role of Australian motor racing driver John "Slug" Harvey in the miniseries '' Brock'', which aired on

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. He currently plays cricket for Mount Lawley Inglewood Panthers. In 2022, Williams was cast to play cricketer

Shane Warne Shane Keith Warne (13 September 1969 – 4 March 2022) was an Australian international cricketer, whose career ran from 1991 to 2007. Warne played as a right-arm leg spin bowler and a right-handed batsman for Victoria, Hampshire and Austral ...

in the miniseries '' Warnie''; the series is scheduled for release in 2023.

Filmography

*'' Underground: The Julian Assange Story'' (2012) –

*'' INXS: Never Tear Us Apart'' (2014) –

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*''

'' (2014) – AJ *'' Brock'' (2016) – John "Slug" Harvey *

Home and Away ''Home and Away'' (often abbreviated as ''H&A'') is an Australian television soap opera. It was created by Alan Bateman and commenced broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. Bateman came up with the concept of the show during a tr ...

(2022-23) - Jacob Cameron *

Warnie (miniseries) ''Warnie'' is an Australian television miniseries based on the life of cricketer Shane Warne, that aired on 25 June and concluded on 26 June 2023. Plot Part 1 A voiceover plays with Shane commenting on his rise to cricket, his scandals and h ...

(2023) - Shane Warne

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* * Living people Australian male television actors Male actors from Perth, Western Australia Year of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-actor-stub