Patrick Harvey (actor)

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Patrick Harvey
Born (1984-07-24) 24 July 1984 (age 40)
OccupationActor

Patrick Harvey (born 24 July 1984) is an Irish-Australian actor. He played Irish immigrant Connor O'Neill on the television soap opera Neighbours . His first appearance on the soap was in April 2002. Harvey spent most of his childhood in Belfast, Northern Ireland, although he moved back to Australia in August 1999.

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He started acting when he was 9 years old and was in a number of ads and stage shows in the United Kingdom as well as voice over work. When he returned to Australia in August 1999 he had decided not to continue acting but only due to his parents' encouragement he pursued it in Australia. He had a few guest appearances on the ABC show The Saddle Club and long-running TV series Blue Heelers . [1]

In 2003, Harvey won the Logie Award for Most Popular New Male Talent. [2] He left Neighbours in February 2006 after a four-and-a-half-year run in the serial. His final scenes aired in early-mid-2006.

He has since appeared in a number of theatre shows [3] and pantomimes in Australia, the United Kingdom and Ireland. [4]

In 2008, he appeared in Australian telemovie Valentine's Day for the ABC and had a guest appearance in Rush for the Ten Network. Harvey toured Australia in HIT Productions' stage version of The Sum of Us (by David Stevens) in the role of Jeff made famous by Russell Crowe in the 1994 film version.

In 2012, Harvey reprised his Neighbours role for four weeks from late October in Australia and November for UK audiences. [5] In 2015, he co-starred in the horror film Scare Campaign . A few years later, he appeared in the Australian television series Wentworth .

In 2022, he appeared in the drama Riptide as Andrew White. [6]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2023Call Me ChihrioUtsumiVoice (English ver)
2022 Riptide (2022 TV series) Andrew White1 episode
2018-20 Wentworth (TV series) Detective Morelli7 episodes
2019 The Inbestigators Steven1 episode
2018 The Cry (2018 TV series) Declan1 episode
2017Sherazade: The Untold StoriesSinbad16 episodes (voice)
2015-17 Utopia (Australian TV series) Adam3 episodes
2016Scare CampaignJD
2014 Upper Middle Bogan Tyler1 episode
2002-12 Neighbours [7] Connor O'Neil197 episodes
2012Mrs BiggsLenny Clarke1 episode
2010 City Homicide Darren Jacobs1 episode
2009RushStuart Tubbs1 episode
2008Valentine's DayGaryTV Movie
2002The Saddle Club:Adventure at Pine HollowJake
2001 The Saddle Club Jake3 episodes
2000 Blue Heelers MIchael Nelson

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