Blair Venn

Blair Venn
Born	Quindanning, Western Australia
Occupation	Actor
Works	Neighbours Head Start

Blair Venn is an Australian actor who has played roles in theatre, film and television.

Early life

Venn was born in Quindanning, Western Australia.

Career

Venn played the regular role of Garrett Quinn in the short-lived ABC television drama series Head Start in 2001. ^[1] He has also appeared in two recurring roles on the Australian soap opera Neighbours . In 2000, he played duplicitous lawyer Brendan Bell, who was the abusive husband of Tess Bell (played by Krista Vendy). ^[2] and Richard Aaronow. Brendan Bell met an untimely end when he died of a heart attack after sustaining an injury in a road accident. The character of Richard Aaronow, whom he played in 2007, was the one-time partner of Rebecca Napier (Jane Hall) and father to Oliver Barnes and Declan Napier. The character—another villain—died of renal failure.

Venn's other television credits include Satisfaction (in which he played the recurring guest role of Hank), and guest roles in All Saints , White Collar Blue , Stingers , Farscape , Rush and The Newsreader .^{[ citation needed ]} His most recent television role was as Henry in the 2024 8-part Paramount+ drama thriller Fake for 2 episodes.

On 8 November 2001, Debi Enker from The Age reported that Venn had been cast in a telemovie titled Life. ^[3] That same year he appeared in 2001 Australian comedy film The Man Who Sued God opposite Billy Connolly, Judy Davis and Colin Friels. He later appeared alongside Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne and Ben Mendelsohn in 2009 Hollywood science fiction thriller film Knowing , which was filmed in Melbourne.

In 2003, Venn carried out theatrical work in the plays The Fat Boy and Uncle Vanya . ^{[4] [5]} In 2006, he worked on stage productions of Some Explicit Polaroids and Dinner with Friends . ^{[6] [7]}

Filmography

Film

Year	Role	Title	Notes
2001	The Man Who Sued God	Les	Feature film
2008	Playing for Charlie	Jim	Feature film
2009	Knowing	Paramedic	Feature film

Television

Year	Role	Title	Notes
1996	Natural Justice: Heat	Detective Quinlan	TV movie
1999	Stingers	Lenny 'G-Long' Baxter	2 episodes
2000	Pozieres	Jim O'Brien	TV movie
2000; 2007–2008	Neighbours	Brendan Bell / Richard Aaronow	34 episodes
2001	Head Start	Garett Quinn	40 episodes
2002	White Collar Blue	Michael Cleal	2 episodes
2003	Farscape	Macton	1 episode
2005	Life	Sam Warburg	TV movie
2006	All Saints	Lewis Palmer	1 episode
2007–2008	Satisfaction	Hank the Marathon Man	3 episodes
2009	Rush	Paul Duffy	1 episode
2021	The Newsreader	John Parry	1 episode
2024	Fake	Henry	2 episodes

Theatre

Year	Role	Title	Notes
2003	The Fat Boy	Darren	Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne with Playbox Theatre Company
2003	Uncle Vanya		Darlinghurst Theatre, Sydney with Peter Darren Productions & You Are Here
2004	Sprung!		Earl Arts Centre, Launceston with Monkey Baa Productions
2006	Some Explicit Polaroids	Nick	Darlinghurst Theatre, Sydney with Smug Theatre
2006	Dinner with Friends		Darlinghurst Theatre, Sydney with Fishy Productions

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References

1. Doherty, Ben (2 March 2001). "Tunedin". The Newcastle Herald . (Fairfax Media). Retrieved 9 July 2013.
2. Courtis, Brian (18 June 2000). "Fantasy for foodies". The Age . (Fairfax Media). Retrieved 9 July 2013.
3. Enker, Debi (8 November 2001). "Networking". The Age . (Fairfax Media). Retrieved 9 July 2013.
4. Thomson, Helen (12 April 2003). "Laughter wrung from a litany of life's tragedies". The Age . (Fairfax Media). Retrieved 9 July 2013.
5. Morgan, Clare (19 June 2003). "Spotlight". The Sydney Morning Herald . (Fairfax Media). Retrieved 9 July 2013.
6. Rose, Colin (2 April 2006). "Picture of a life less radical". The Sun-Herald . (Fairfax Media). Retrieved 9 July 2013.
7. Blake, Jason (27 August 2006). "Polished recipe but hardly satisfying fare". The Sun-Herald . (Fairfax Media). Retrieved 9 July 2013.
8. "Blair Venn theatre credits". AusStage.

External links

Blair Venn at IMDb