Ben Winspear

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Ben Winspear
Bornc.1976 [1]
OccupationActor
Partner Marta Dusseldorp [1]
Children2

Ben Winspear is an Australian actor and director. [1] 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. [2]

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Screen roles he has played includes the TV series A Place to Call Home . [3] and Underbelly: Badness [4] and films The Babadook [5] and Bad Girl . [6] He also appears in Bay of Fires which was co-produced by Archipelago Productions, a company he co-founded with his wife Marta Dusseldorp. [7]

Winspear has a long theatre career [8] including Baghdad Wedding for Company B, [9] for which he won the Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play, [10] and Great Expectations at the Drama Theatre (Sydney Opera House), [11] for which he was nominated for the same award. [12] He appeared with Marta Dusseldorp in Joanna Murray-Smith's adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's 1973 film Scenes from a Marriage for Queensland Theatre in 2017. [13]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2023 Bay of Fires (TV series) Rowan2 episodes
2020-21 Rosehaven Sam3 episodes
2021Finding JeddaShort
2017Remembering AgathaBillShort
PileFatherShort
The SuitorMr SappletonShort
2016Bad GirlPeter Anderson
PerryBen's MateShort
Emerald City LiveMike
2014-15 A Place to Call Home (TV series) René Nordmann11 episodes
2015 House of Hancock Con Heliotis1 episode
2015Breeding in CaptivityAndrewFilm
2014Black ComedyGuest2 episodes
Old SchoolRodger1 episode
Rake (Australian TV series) Sebastian Strong3 episodes
The Babadook Oskar
2013The Last GoodbyeJoel
2012RiccohetOliverShort
Underbelly [14] Tim Browne8 episodes
2011LovelessMaxShort
CrowniesDr Preston1 episode
Panic at Rock IslandBaz GahaTV Movie
2009My PlaceMichaelis2 episodes
2008Every Other WeekendBartShort

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References

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