Charlie Clausen (born 31 July 1977) is an Australian actor most known for his role as Jake Harrison on ''

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'' in 2003 and as Acting Sergeant Alex Kirby on the police drama series ''

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'', which he starred in for the majority of Season 12 (2005) and Season 13 (2006). In 2012 he joined the cast of ''

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 ...

'' as Zac MacGuire. Clausen left ''Home and Away'' in May 2017 after four years.

Personal life

Clausen married his partner of 12 years Gemma Lee in Los Angeles on 23 September 2015. Their first child, a daughter, was born in September 2019. Clausen is a known supporter of the

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in the AFL.

Podcast

From July 2010 to September 2012, Clausen collaborated on a free weekly podcast, ''

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'' (aka 30 Odd Foot of Pod), with comedian Wil Anderson. ''TOFOP'' was placed on indefinite hiatus when Clausen began filming on ''Home and Away'' as the

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deemed it a conflict of interest. Anderson then started another similar podcast called ''FOFOP'' (as in "faux TOFOP"), with various comedians and personalities featured as "Guest Charlies". Anderson and Clausen reunited for a live show as part of the 2014 Melbourne Comedy Festival, co-starring several Guest Charlies. This special podcast may be released when Clausen is no longer starring on ''Home and Away''. On 1 June 2014, Clausen returned to the podcast. In February 2015, Clausen launched his own solo podcast ''That's Aweson'', the title referring to an episode of ''TOFOP'' in which Clausen tried to convince Anderson that his surname rhymed with "awesome." In 2015, Clausen and Anderson launched an AFL themed podcast ''2 Guys 1 Cup''. The name referring to the fact that Clausen's

and Anderson's

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had one combined AFL/VFL premiership. The opening song of the podcast to the tune of the

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's, "We're a happy team at Hawthorn", which features witty lyrics about the common failures of their teams to secure finals football. When Anderson's Western Bulldogs won the

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, in the following seasons the lyric, "Two cups in one hundred years" was followed with the pair making comment on the redundancy of the lyric. Common asides of the podcast is the pair going off on non-football related tangents or having to admit they watched only one or two games of the competition's nine weekly games. Most recently, they have explored the dynamics of the fictional relationship between two of the games best midfielders, Nat Fyfe and Ben Cunnington.

Filmography

References

External links

TOFOP Podcast
* Australian male soap opera actors Living people Male actors from Melbourne 1977 births People educated at Xavier College {{Australia-screen-actor-stub