Ben Winspear is an Australian actor and director. He won a 2009 Helmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play having previously been nominated for the same category in 2003. For his performance in the TV series '' My Place'' he was nominated for the 2010 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actor in a Television Drama. Screen roles he has played includes the TV series '' A Place to Call Home''. and '' Underbelly: Badness'' and films ''

The Babadook ''The Babadook'' is a 2014 Australian supernatural horror film written and directed by Jennifer Kent in her directorial debut, and produced by Kristina Ceyton and Kristian Moliere. The film stars Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Daniel Henshall, H ...

'' and '' Bad Girl''. He also appears in ''

Bay of Fires The Bay of Fires ( palawa kani: ''larapuna)'' is a bay on the northeastern coast of Tasmania in Australia, extending from Binalong Bay to Eddystone Point. The bay was given its name in 1773 by Captain Tobias Furneaux in , who saw the fires of ...

'' which was co-produced by Archipelago Productions, a company he co-founded with his wife

Marta Dusseldorp Marta Dusseldorp (born 1 February 1973) is an Australian stage, film and theatre actress. Her television credits include '' BlackJack'', ''Crownies'' (and its spin-off '' Janet King''), ''Jack Irish'' and '' A Place to Call Home''. Early life a ...

. Winspear has a long theatre career including ''Baghdad Wedding'' for Company B, for which he won the Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play, and ''Great Expectations'' at the Drama Theatre (Sydney Opera House), for which he was nominated for the same award. He appeared with Marta Dusseldorp in

Joanna Murray-Smith Joanna Murray-Smith (born 17 April 1962) is a Melbourne-based Australian playwright, screenwriter, novelist, librettist and newspaper columnist. Life and career Murray-Smith was born in Mount Eliza, Victoria; her father was the literary editor ...

's adaptation of

Ingmar Bergman Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film director, screenwriter, producer and playwright. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films are known as "profoundly ...

's 1973 film ''

Scenes from a Marriage ''Scenes from a Marriage'' ( sv, Scener ur ett äktenskap) is a 1973 Swedish television miniseries written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Over the course of six hour-long episodes, it explores the disintegration of the marriage between Mariann ...

'' for

Queensland Theatre Queensland Theatre, formerly the Queensland Theatre Company and Royal Queensland Theatre Company, is a professional theatre company based in Brisbane, Australia. It regularly performs in its own Bille Browne Theatre and the Queensland Performi ...

in 2017.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Winspear, Ben Living people Australian stage actors Australian film actors Australian television actors 21st-century Australian actors Date of birth missing (living people) People from Wagga Wagga 1976 births