David Tredinnick is an Australian actor. An experienced actor with a long career in theatre, he is perhaps best known for his regular role as bar owner Simon Trader in the television series ''

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''.

Biography

Tredinnick was born in the Melbourne suburb of Glen Waverley. He battled anorexia as a teenager and was obsessed with extreme exercise. Tredinnick studied arts at

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where he became interested in theatre. He joined the university theatre company and performed in local fringe theatre for a number of years. This was to earn him his first major role as a lead in the

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production of ''

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'' in 1993, a performance which won him a prestigious Green Room Award. Tredinnick was a regular in the Melbourne theatre scene throughout the 1990s, working with most of the major theatre companies, and featuring in an array of plays, including The Talented Mr Ripley, Roulette, Dealer's Choice and Strangers in the Night. He also appeared in a number of independent films, including Dead on Time, Derwent Envy, Life, Pozieres and Zone 39. Tredinnick also made a number of guest appearances on television, appearing on '' All Together Now'', ''

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'', '' Something in the Air'', '' State Coroner'' and '' Halifax f.p.''. His appearance in the latter saw him nominated for an

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Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Television Drama for the episode "Swimming with Sharks". In 2001 he won the role of gay bar owner Simon Trader on the

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series ''

''. He was one of the few actors to last through the series' four seasons, appearing as the dryly wise character until the series was axed in 2005. Tredinnick is also a noted narrator of talking books, having narrated more than fifty titles. He won the Vision Australia Adult Narrator of the Year Award in 1998 and 1999, and won a Sanderson Young Adult Narrator of the Year Award in 2001.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

Personal life

Tredinnick lives in Melbourne with his partner, location scout Annetta Labb.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tredinnick, David Australian male stage actors Australian male television actors Living people Year of birth missing (living people) University of Melbourne alumni Male actors from Melbourne People from Glen Waverley, Victoria