Charlie Clausen

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Charlie Clausen
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Born
Charlie Clausen

(1977-07-31) 31 July 1977 (age 45)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Other namesThe Human Internet" [1]
OccupationActor
Spouse
Gemma Lee
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(m. 2015)​
Children1

Charlie Clausen (born 31 July 1977) is an Australian actor most known for his role as Jake Harrison on McLeod's Daughters in 2003 and as Acting Sergeant Alex Kirby on the police drama series Blue Heelers , which he starred in for the majority of Season 12 (2005) and Season 13 (2006). In 2012 he joined the cast of Home and Away as Zac MacGuire. Clausen left Home and Away in May 2017 after four years.

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Personal life

Clausen married his partner of 12 years Gemma Lee in Los Angeles on 23 September 2015. [2] Their first child, a daughter, was born in September 2019. [3]

Clausen is a known supporter of the St Kilda Football Club in the AFL.

Podcast

From July 2010 to September 2012, Clausen collaborated on a free weekly podcast, TOFOP (aka 30 Odd Foot of Pod), with comedian Wil Anderson. TOFOP was placed on indefinite hiatus when Clausen began filming on Home and Away as the Seven Network deemed it a conflict of interest. [4] Anderson then started another similar podcast called FOFOP (as in "faux TOFOP"), with various comedians and personalities featured as "Guest Charlies". Anderson and Clausen reunited for a live show as part of the 2014 Melbourne Comedy Festival, co-starring several Guest Charlies. This special podcast may be released when Clausen is no longer starring on Home and Away. [5] On 1 June 2014, Clausen returned to the podcast.

In February 2015, Clausen launched his own solo podcast That's Aweson, [6] the title referring to an episode of TOFOP in which Clausen tried to convince Anderson that his surname rhymed with "awesome."

In 2015, Clausen and Anderson launched an AFL themed podcast 2 Guys 1 Cup. [6] The name referring to the fact that Clausen's St Kilda Football Club and Anderson's Western Bulldogs had one AFL/VFL premiership each. The opening song of the podcast to the tune of the Hawthorn Football Club's, "We're a happy team at Hawthorn", which features witty lyrics about the common failures of their teams to secure finals football. When Anderson's Western Bulldogs won the 2016 AFL Grand Final, in the following seasons the lyric, "Two cups in one hundred years" was followed with the pair making comment on the redundancy of the lyric. Common asides of the podcast is the pair going off on non-football related tangents or having to admit they watched only one or two games of the competition's nine weekly games. Most recently, they have explored the dynamics of the fictional relationship between two of the games best midfielders, Nat Fyfe and Ben Cunnington.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2000 On the Beach Seaman Byers
2001 Head Start Aaron Symonds
2002–03 McLeod's Daughters Jake Harrison
2005–06 Blue Heelers Alex Kirby
2006Dead and BuriedCliveAlso writer and producer
2006Love No. 9DeanShort film
2007Pig LatinShort film
2008 Canal Road Tom Squires
2008 Neighbours Jay Duncan
2010 Satisfaction PaulEpisodes: "Lifesavers" and "Bug Crush"
2012 Tricky Business Ben NapierEpisode: "Skyrockets in Flight"
2013–17 Home and Away Zac MacGuire 441 episodes
2017 Wolf Creek Danny Michaels3 episodes
2022The Curious Case of Dolphin BayDavid
2022AllegedlyGeoff1 episode (podcast series)
2022Darby and JoanDam1 episode

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References

  1. ↑ http://tofop.libsyn.com Archived 31 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ Moran, Jonathon (21 October 2015). "Charlie Clausen married: Home and Away star weds longtime girlfriend Gemma Lee". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  3. ↑ "Home and Away's Charlie Clausen welcomes baby". New Idea . 26 September 2019. Retrieved 29 September 2019.
  4. ↑ Richards, Holly (16 January 2013). "Star role lures Clausen". The West Australian . Retrieved 3 November 2015.
  5. ↑ "FOFOP Podcast All Episodes".
  6. 1 2 Manning, James (8 October 2020). "Podcast Week bonus: Wil Anderson on podcasting with Charlie Clausen". Mediaweek . Retrieved 17 January 2021.


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