Peter Hosking (born 19 December 1947) is an Australian actor and

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narrator.

Education

Hosking graduated from

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with a Diploma of Civil Engineering.

Career

Hosking started acting professionally at The Pram Factory in Melbourne in 1978. In 1996, Hosking received TDK Australian Audio Book Award for ''Home Before Dark''. The same year, he starred in an episode of ''

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''. In 2002 he created ''Nu Country TV'', a country music show on community tv station

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. He produced, filmed and edited this show for four years. The show is still running in 2017. In 2010 he was interviewed by phone by

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regarding his 25 years of narrating

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many of his narrations have been reviewed by

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in the USA, After 30 years in Australian theatre, film, tv and voice work, moved to Prague in Czech Republic where he works with the Cimrman English Theatre performing English language translations of the works of

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, a man voted the greatest Czech of all time. In 2018, Hosking voiced the character Hanush of Leipa in the 2018 video game '' Kingdom Come: Deliverance''.

Selected credits

Theatre

Television

Film

Music video

Audio books

Video games

References

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