Simon Lyndon is an Australian actor and director.

Early life and education

Simon Lyndon was born in Lewisham,

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in 1971 and migrated to

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with his family in 1981. He grew up in

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. Simon attended John Curtin College of the Arts in the Theatre Arts program and later graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in

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Career

Film roles

Lyndon received Australian Film Institute Award (AFI) nominations for Best Supporting Actor for the 1997 drama '' Blackrock''. He played Jimmy Loughnan in '' Chopper'' (2000) with Eric Bana, for which he won an AFI Award for Best Supporting Actor, and a Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Supporting Actor. He won Best Actor in a Telefeature or Mini-series for his role as Jack Meredith in the 2001 telemovie '' My Brother Jack''. Other films include ''Fresh Air'', '' Sample People'', '' The Thin Red Line'', ''From the Outside'', ''Caught Inside'', ''Falling in the Paradise'', ''The Glenmore Job'', '' The Well'' and ''Dust off the Wings''

Television roles

Lyndon's TV appearances include '' Police Rescue'', '' Heartbreak High'', '' Wildside'', '' Underbelly'' and '' Canal Road''. He also appeared in FOX network show '' Roar'' in 1997 as a tribe leader named Colm. The lead role of Connor Der Kilte was played by fellow Australian and Lyndon's former '' Blackrock'' co-star Heath Ledger. In 2011 he played a younger Jack Thompson in '' Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo'' on ABC 1. He played the miner who died, Larry Knight, in the TV film '' Beaconsfield'' about the 2006 mine disaster. Also in 2011 Simon appeared in the second series of '' Spirited'', on Foxtel, playing a ghost known as 'The King' or Darren Bonney, who lives in an apartment with a dentist ( Claudia Karvan), who is in love with another ghost resident. Simon played Tintagel Stone in an episode of '' Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries'' in 2012. He also appeared in TV series '' Puberty Blues'' as a surfing teacher Gumby that same year. He appeared as Emilio the truck business owner in season 2 of '' Mystery Road'' (episodes 1–3). He also played the unfortunate Hedwig's father Michael in the 2021 Netflix series '' Eden'', and Twist in the 2022 ABC TV series '' Troppo''.

Stage roles

In 2013 Lyndon was in a four-person play called ''Anaconda'' by Sarah Doyle, with Tamarama Rock Surfers at Bondi Pavilion. He has also directed a Tamarama Rock Surfers production of ''Road'', featuring among others Bojana Novakovic, Jeremy Cumpston, Zena Cumpston and Angie Milliken, as well as a Tamarama Rock Surfers production of ''Diary of a Madman'' starring Alan Morris. In June/July 2017 Lyndon appeared in ''Sunset Strip'', a four-person play by Suzie Miller, performed by Stables Theatre Company at Griffin Theatre in Darlinghurst. He reprised this role in a tour around Australia by the same company in 2019. He has also appeared on stage in '' That Eye the Sky'', '' Blackrock'' (in a different role to which he played in the film version), '' Cloudstreet'' and '' Popcorn''.

Filmography

Film

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Television

Theatre

As actor

As director

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lyndon, Simon Australian male film actors People educated at John Curtin College of the Arts People from Fremantle 1971 births Living people Male actors from Western Australia Edith Cowan University alumni English emigrants to Australia