Simon Lyndon | |
---|---|
Born | London, England, United Kingdom | February 18, 1971
Education | Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts |
Occupation(s) | Actor, director |
Simon Lyndon (born 18 February 1971 in London) is an English-born Australian actor and director who grew up in Fremantle, Western Australia. He is a WAAPA graduate.
Lyndon played Jimmy Loughnan in Chopper with Eric Bana, for which he won an AFI award for Best Supporting Actor [1] and a Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Supporting Actor. [2] He received AFI nominations for Best Supporting Actor for Blackrock [1] (as Brett 'Ricko' Ricketson) and Best Actor in a Telefeature or Mini-series for his role as Jack Meredith in My Brother Jack . [3]
Other films include Fresh Air, Sample People , The Thin Red Line , From the Outside, [4] Caught Inside, [5] Falling in the Paradise, [6] The Glenmore Job, [7] The Well and Dust off the Wings [8]
Lyndon's TV appearances include Police Rescue , Heartbreak High , Wildside , [4] Underbelly [9] and Canal Road . [10]
He also appeared in FOX network show Roar in 1997 as a tribe leader named Colm. The lead role of Connor Der Kilte was played by fellow Australian and Lyndon's former Blackrock co-star Heath Ledger.
In 2011 he played a younger Jack Thompson in Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo on ABC 1. He played the miner who died, Larry Knight, in the TV film Beaconsfield about the 2006 mine disaster. Also in 2011 Simon appeared in the second series of Spirited , on Foxtel, playing a ghost known as 'The King' or Darren Bonney, who lives in an apartment with a dentist (Claudia Karvan), who is in love with another ghost resident.
Simon played Tintagel Stone in an episode of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries in 2012. He also appeared in TV series Puberty Blues as a surfing teacher Gumby that same year.
He appeared as Emilio the truck business owner in season 2 of Mystery Road (episodes 1–3). He also played the unfortunate Hedwig's father Michael in the 2021 Netflix series Eden , and Twist in 2022 ABC TV series Troppo .
In 2013 Lyndon was in a four-person play called Anaconda by Sarah Doyle, with Tamarama Rock Surfers at Bondi Pavilion. He has also directed a Tamarama Rock Surfers production of Road, featuring among others Bojana Novakovic, Jeremy Cumpston, Zena Cumpston and Angie Milliken, as well as a Tamarama Rock Surfers production of Diary of a Madman starring Alan Morris.
In June/July 2017 Lyndon appeared in Sunset Strip, a four-person play by Suzie Miller, performed by Stables Theatre Company at Griffin Theatre in Darlinghurst. He reprised this role in a tour around Australia by the same company in 2019.
He has also appeared on stage in That Eye the Sky , Blackrock (in a different role to which he played in the film version), Cloudstreet and Popcorn . [4]
Year | Title | Role | Type |
---|---|---|---|
1995 | Sidewinder – Titanic Days | Rick | Short film |
1997 | Blackrock | Brett 'Ricko' Ricketson | Feature film |
1997 | The Well | Abel | Feature film |
1997 | Dust Off the Wings | Gazza | Feature film |
1998 | Bloodlock | Reffo | Short film |
1998 | The Thin Red Line | Medic #2 | Feature film |
1999 | Fresh Air | Harrison | Feature film |
2000 | Sample People | Andy | Feature film |
2000 | Chopper | Jimmy Loughnan | Feature film |
2000 | Dogwoman: A Grrrl's Best Friend | Matt Heyduke | TV movie |
2001 | My Brother Jack | Jack Meredith | TV movie |
2004 | Falling in the Paradise (aka Pad u raj) | Jonathan Schumacher | Feature film |
2005 | The Glenmoore Job | Warren | TV movie |
2006 | Stalled | Rob | Short film |
2006 | Guy in a Field | Guy | Short film |
2006 | Warhead | Short film | |
2007 | Shotgun! (An Opening Sequence) | Steve | Short film |
2007 | BlackJack: Ghosts | Johnny Vale | TV movie |
2008 | Valentine's Day | Bean | TV movie |
2009 | The Last Supper | Andrew | Short film |
2009 | Hunted | Bud | Short film |
2009 | Facing Rupert | Steve Swanson | Short film |
2010 | Caught Inside | Toobs | Feature film |
2012 | Loaded | Lee | Short film |
2012 | Beaconsfield | Larry Knight | TV movie |
2013 | Thanks for the Ride | Oliver | Short film |
2015 | Colt 13 | Simmo | Short film |
2015 | Pedal | Cannon | Short film |
2017 | Concealed | Max | Feature film |
2017 | Foreign Body | Adam | Short film |
2017 | Red Handed | Stalker | Short film |
2020 | Necktie | David | Short film |
2022 | Maddie's Red Hot | Dylan | Short film |
From the Outside |
Year | Title | Role | Type |
---|---|---|---|
1995 | Soldier Soldier | Fusilier Michael Vickers | TV series, 1 episode |
1996 | Police Rescue | Matt | TV series, 1 episode |
1997 | Heartbreak High | JJ | TV series, 2 episodes |
1997 | Roar | Colm | TV series, 1 episode |
1998 | Wildside | John 'Scratch' Scratchley | TV series, 2 episodes |
2000 | All Saints | Will Harrington | TV series, 1 episode |
2001 | Water Rats | Kevin O'Shea | TV series, 1 episode |
1999 / 2001 | Stingers | Ben Matthews / Hickock | TV series, 2 episodes |
2007 | City Homicide | Josh Braddock | TV series, 1 episode |
2008 | Underbelly | Sean Sonnet | TV series, 3 episodes |
2008 | Canal Road | Daryl King | TV miniseries, 3 episodes |
2008 | Rush | Snuffy Wells | TV series, 1 episode |
2010 | Cops L.A.C. | Cameron | TV series, 1 episode |
2011 | Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo | Jack Thompson | TV miniseries, 2 episodes |
2011 | Wild Boys | Hogan | TV series, 1 episode |
2011 | Spirited | 'The King' / Darren Bonney | TV series, season 2, 10 episodes |
2012 | Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries | Tintagel Stone | TV series, season 1, episode 3: "The Green Mill Murder" |
2012 | Puberty Blues | Gumby | TV series, 3 episodes |
2015 | Deadline Gallipoli | Conrad White | TV miniseries, 1 episode |
2019 | Mr Inbetween | Pidgy | TV series, 1 episode |
2020 | Mystery Road | Emilio Gordon | TV series, season 2, episodes 1–3 |
2021 | Eden | Michael | TV series, 3 episodes |
2022–24 | Troppo | Twist | TV series, 9 episodes |
Year | Title | Role | Venue / Co. |
---|---|---|---|
1994 | Thark | Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts | |
1995 | That Eye, The Sky | Playhouse Perth, Space Theatre, Adelaide | |
1995 | Blackrock | Jared | Wharf 1 Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company, Canberra Theatre |
1996 | Live Acts on Stage | Stables Theatre | |
1998 | Cloudstreet | Berth 9, Darling Harbour | |
2007 | The Birthday Party | FAD Gallery, Melbourne, St Kilda Army and Navy Club Memorial Hall | |
2013 | Anaconda | Bondi Oabilion with Tamarama Rock Surfers | |
2017, 2019 | Sunset Strip | Stables Theatre Company at Griffin Theatre & Australia tour | |
Popcorn |
Year | Title | Role | Venue / Co. |
---|---|---|---|
Road | Director | Tamarama Rock Surfers | |
Diary of a Madman | Director | Tamarama Rock Surfers |
Ardal O'Hanlon is an Irish comedian, actor, and author. He played Father Dougal McGuire in Father Ted (1995–1998), George Sunday/Thermoman in My Hero (2000–2006), and DI Jack Mooney in Death in Paradise (2017–2020). His novel The Talk of the Town was published in 1998.
Jack Thompson, AM is an Australian award-winning actor, who is a major figure of Australian cinema, particularly Australian New Wave.
Mark Little is an Australian actor, television presenter, comedian and screen/stage writer. He is known for portraying the role of Joe Mangel from 1988 to 1991, 2005 and 2022 on the Australian soap opera Neighbours.
Kerry Michelle Armstrong is an Australian actress and author. She is one of only two actresses to win two Australian Film Institute Awards in the same year, winning Best Actress in a Leading Role for Lantana and Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Television Drama for SeaChange in 2001.
Blackrock is a 1997 Australian teen drama thriller film produced by David Elfick and Catherine Knapman, directed by Steven Vidler with the screenplay by Nick Enright. Marking Vidler's directorial debut, the film was adapted from the play of the same name, also written by Enright, which was inspired by the murder of Leigh Leigh. The film stars Laurence Breuls, Simon Lyndon and Linda Cropper, and also features the first credited film performance of Heath Ledger. The film follows Jared (Breuls), a young surfer who witnesses his friends raping a girl. When she is found murdered the next day, Jared is torn between revealing what he saw and protecting his friends.
Rhys Muldoon is an Australian actor, writer and director who has worked extensively in film, television, music, theatre and radio. He has had leading and recurring roles in series such as Chances, The Genie from Down Under, Big Sky, The Secret Life of Us, Lockie Leonard and House Husbands. He was also a presenter on the popular children's series Play School.
Darryl William McInnes is an Australian film and television actor and writer. He is best known for his roles as Senior Constable Nick Schultz in Blue Heelers, as Max Connors in SeaChange, and more recently as TV boss Lindsay Cunningham in The Newsreader and Dr. Roy Penrose in NCIS: Sydney.
Steve Bisley is an Australian writer, film and television actor. He is best known for his roles in the films Mad Max (1979) and The Great Gatsby (2013). On television, some of his better-known roles include Detective Sergeant Jack Christey in Water Rats and Jim Knight in Doctor Doctor.
Saskia Burmeister is an Australian actress. She is most known for her roles in Hating Alison Ashley and Sea Patrol.
Justine Clarke is an Australian actress, singer, author and television host.
Damian Walshe-Howling is an Australian actor, well known for his role as Andrew "Benji" Veniamin in the Australian underworld drama, Underbelly, for which he won the Best Supporting or Guest Actor in a Drama Series at the 2008 AFI Awards.
Jessica Napier is a New Zealand-born actress based in Australia. She has appeared in a number of feature films, including Love Serenade, Blackrock, Cut, City Loop, Angst, The Illustrated Family Doctor and Ghost Rider, and is well known for her role of Becky Howard in the Australian TV drama series McLeod's Daughters.
Jeremy Cumpston is an Australian doctor, actor and director most known for his work as Connor Costello on All Saints, an Australian hospital drama.
Roy Harwood Billing is a New Zealand television actor, now based on Waiheke Island, New Zealand. He was brought up in Ruawai, Northland, New Zealand. Billing spent almost three decades living and working in Australia. He became widely known for his role as organised-crime boss “Aussie Bob” Trimbole in the TV series Underbelly.
Nicholas Papademetriou is an Australian actor of Greek Cypriot descent with many television, film and theatre credits. He is a graduate of Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. He has had an extensive career in film and television since he graduated in 1984, but is best known as a stage actor, having appeared in productions in Australia, London, New York and Edinburgh.
The Tamarama Rock Surfers was an independent theatre company that operated out of the Old Fitzroy Theatre in Sydney, Australia, and beyond. After 18 years, the group ceased trading in December 2015 due to lack of funding.
Toby Schmitz is an Australian actor and playwright.
Mouche Phillips is an Australian actress and theatre producer, best known for her television roles as Aviva "Viv" Newton in Home and Away (1989–90) and Eva Sykes in police procedural series Water Rats (2000–01).
Hal Cumpston is an Australian actor, producer and writer.