Mark Leonard Winter

Last updated

Mark Leonard Winter
NationalityAustralian
OccupationActor
Years active2009–present
Spouse Geraldine Hakewill (2021-present)

Mark Leonard Winter is an Australian actor, known for performances in film, television and on stage.

Contents

Early life

Winter's family moved from Australia to Washington DC, United States, when he was in grade ten. It was the freedom of his American school and new friends, that he credits with passion for the arts and creative thinking. He states that he started to think a bit too creatively, so his parents sent him back to Australia to attend boarding school where he fell in love with English literature and theatre. [1]

Winter spent a year studying at Flinders University in Adelaide, South Australia, and then went on to study acting at Victorian College of Arts. [1]

Career

Screen

Winter's film roles include Balibo (2009), Blame (2010), Dangerous Remedy (2012), Healing (2014), One Eyed Girl (2015), The Dressmaker alongside Kate Winslet, and Little Tornadoes (2020). [2] [3] He starred in the 2020 thriller film Escape from Pretoria . [4]

In the TV series Pine Gap (2018) Winter played a technical geek on the autism spectrum, Moses Dreyfus. Winter was nominated for an AACTA Award for his performance in 2020's TV mini-series, Halifax: Retribution . Following that, Winter played Callum on the TV mini-series Inside, then Russell in the TV series The Newsreader in 2021. In 2021 he also played Joel Welch, a methadone addict in episode 3 of the ABC TV series Fires .[ citation needed ]

Stage

On stage, he has performed major roles with leading Australian theatre companies, including the Sydney Theatre Company and the Melbourne Theatre Company. Winter is one of the founding members of Black Lung, an independent theatre company. [5] In 2015, Winter starred in the Melbourne Theatre Company's production of Simon Stephens' Birdland. for which he won Best Male Actor at the Helpmann Awards. [2]

Winter directed Jason Alexander in an American production of The Blind Date Project, a type of improv which he helped to devise. [6] [1]

Directing

Winter's first film as writer-director, The Rooster , is a comedy drama starring Hugo Weaving, [7] which premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival in August 2023. [8] The film was selected as one of four nominees for the CinefestOZ Film Prize, worth A$100,000, in September 2023, [9] [10] and was also nominated for the 2023 AACTA Award for Best Indie Film. [11]

It was released in Australian cinemas on 22 February 2024. [12]

Recognition and awards

Personal life

Winter is married to actress and singer, Geraldine Hakewill; they first met in 2011, occasionally crossing paths until they became a couple in 2017, [14] and married in December 2021. [15] They have co-starred in the 2020 psychodrama Disclosure .

Winter is a big fan of movies from the 1970s, and loves the work of Robert De Niro and Daniel Day-Lewis. [5]

In November 2018, Winter gave evidence against his co-star in King Lear, Geoffrey Rush, in Rush's defamation lawsuit against the Daily Telegraph . [16]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hugo Weaving</span> British actor (born 1960)

Hugo Wallace Weaving is a British actor. He is the recipient of six Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (AACTA) and has been recognised as an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia. Born in Colonial Nigeria to English parents, he has resided in Australia for the entirety of his career.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rachel Griffiths</span> Australian actress (b. 1968)

Rachel Anne Griffiths is an Australian actress. Raised primarily in Melbourne, she began her acting career appearing on the Australian series Secrets before being cast in a supporting role in the comedy Muriel's Wedding (1994), which earned her an AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. In 1997, she was the lead in Nadia Tass's drama Amy. She had a role opposite Julia Roberts in the American romantic comedy My Best Friend's Wedding (1997), followed by her portrayal of Hilary du Pré in Hilary and Jackie (1998), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Richard Roxburgh</span> Australian actor

Richard Roxburgh is an Australian actor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of a number of accolades across film, television, and theatre, including four AACTA Awards, three Logie Awards, and two Helpmann Awards.

Anita Hegh is an Australian actress, known for starring in the television series Stingers, Janet King, and the ABC drama Total Control.

Nadia Tass is an Australian theatre director and film director and producer. She is known for the films Malcolm (1986) and The Big Steal (1990), as well as an extensive body of work in the theatre, both in Australia and internationally.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pamela Rabe</span> Canadian-born Australian actress

Pamela Rabe is a Canadian–Australian actress and theatre director. A graduate of the Playhouse Acting School in Vancouver, Rabe is best known for her appearances in the Australian films Sirens, Cosi and Paradise Road, and for starring as Joan Ferguson in the television drama series Wentworth.

Osamah Sami is an Australian stage and screen actor, writer, and stand-up comedian, born in Iran of Iraqi origin. He is known for his book Good Muslim Boy, and the film Ali's Wedding.

Ewen Leslie is an Australian stage, film and television actor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Russell Dykstra</span> Australian actor of screen, stage and TV

Russell Dykstra is an Australian actor of screen, stage and TV.

Rebecca Massey is an Australian film, television, and theatre actress. She is best known for her comic roles as Beverley in Utopia, and as Lucy Canon in Chandon Pictures. She has worked in leading roles with major theatre companies nationwide such as The Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir St Theatre, Bell Shakespeare Company, State Theatre Company of South Australia, and Griffin Theatre Company. She has performed alongside many of Australia's great actors and actresses including Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, and Barry Otto.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Simon Stone</span> Australian film and theatre director

Simon Stone is an Australian film and theatre director, writer and actor.

David Bromley is an Australian artist best known for his painting and sculpture, in particular his portraits, and his paintings of children, birds, butterflies and female nudes. He began his career in Adelaide as a potter. He has exhibited widely in Australia, and also in Asia, Europe, Africa and America, and has been a finalist at the Archibald Prize six times.

Kip Williams is an Australian theatre and opera director. Williams is the current Artistic Director of Sydney Theatre Company. His appointment at age 30 made him the youngest artistic director in the company's history.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mark Coles Smith</span> Australian actor and musician

Mark Coles Smith, also known by his musical identity as Kalaji, is an Aboriginal Australian actor of stage and screen, sound designer, field recordist, writer, and composer. He is known for his roles in the feature films Last Cab to Darwin (2015), Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018), and Occupation: Rainfall (2020), as well as the television series Mystery Road: Origin (2022), and the Canadian series Hard Rock Medical (2013–18).

Damian Hill was an Australian film and television actor and screenwriter, best known for the 2015 film Pawno.

Susan Prior is an Australian actress.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">CinefestOZ</span> Annual film festival in Western Australia

CinefestOZ is an annual film festival that takes place over five days in the South West region of Western Australia. IndigifestOZ is a section of the festival devoted to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander filmmakers. The CinefestOZ Film Prize of A$100,000 is the richest film prize in the country.

Harry Weaving Greenwood is an Australian actor.

<i>Monolith</i> (2022 film) 2022 Australian film

Monolith is a 2022 Australian science-fiction thriller film directed by Matt Vesely from a script written by Lucy Campbell, and produced by Bettina Hamilton. Described as high-concept science fiction, it stars Lily Sullivan, the only on-screen actor in the film, as a journalist uncovering a mystery.

<i>The Rooster</i> (film) 2023 Australian film

The Rooster is a 2023 Australian comedy drama film directed by Mark Leonard Winter and starring Hugo Weaving, Phoenix Raei, and John Waters.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Feature: Mark Leonard Winter". Sydney Theatre Company. 28 April 2014. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  2. 1 2 Spring, Alexandra (27 June 2015). "Mark Leonard Winter: we hold up celebrities as idols, then we crucify them". The Guardian . Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  3. ↑ Harford, Sonia (5 June 2015). "Rock stars like us: MTC's Birdland looks beyond the glamour". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  4. ↑ "Daniel Radcliffe-starrer 'Escape From Pretoria' kicks off in South Australia". if.com.au. 13 March 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  5. 1 2 "Mark Leonard Winter: we hold up celebrities as idols, then we crucify them". the Guardian. 27 June 2015. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  6. ↑ "The team". theblinddateproject. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  7. ↑ Buckmaster, Luke (7 August 2023). "The Rooster review – Hugo Weaving kicks this study of masculinity into gear". The Guardian . Retrieved 4 September 2023.
  8. ↑ "The Rooster: Mark Leonard Winter (2023)". Melbourne International Film Festival . 2023. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
  9. ↑ Slatter, Sean (13 July 2023). "'Bromley: Light After Dark', 'Monolith', 'Shayda', 'The Rooster' up for $100,000 CinefestOZ prize". IF Magazine . Retrieved 3 September 2023.
  10. ↑ Slatter, Sean (3 September 2023). "Noora Niasari's 'Shayda' wins $100,000 CinefestOZ prize". IF Magazine . Retrieved 3 September 2023.
  11. ↑ Slatter, Sean (8 February 2024). "'Talk To Me' takes home five AACTA Industry Awards". IF Magazine . Retrieved 19 February 2024.
  12. ↑ Weaving, Hugo (20 February 2024). "Hugo Weaving wanted to star in Australian movie The Rooster to shift taboos about men and mental health". ABC News (Australia) (Interview). Interviewed by Russell, Stephen A. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
  13. ↑ Winter, Mark (2020). "Mark Winter CV" (PDF).
  14. ↑ Dow, Steve (27 March 2021). "Tested by Fire and Plague, How Australia's Great New Drama Nearly Didn't Get Made" . The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the original on 18 January 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  15. ↑ Hakewill, Geraldine [@geraldinehakewill] (29 December 2021). "Wed" . Retrieved 9 May 2022– via Instagram.
  16. ↑ Michaela Whitbourn (7 November 2018). "Judge 'grapples' with why Rush would have been 'potentially destructive' on-stage". Western Australia Today. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.