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| Born | London, England, United Kingdom |
| Education | Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, director |
Simon Lyndon is an Australian actor and director.
Simon Lyndon | |
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| Born | London, England, United Kingdom |
| Education | Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, director |
Simon Lyndon is an Australian actor and director.
Simon Lyndon was born in Lewisham, S E London, in 1971 and migrated to Australia with his family in 1981. He grew up in Fremantle, Western Australia. Simon attended John Curtin College of the Arts in the Theatre Arts program and later graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth.[ citation needed ]
Lyndon received Australian Film Institute Award (AFI) nominations for Best Supporting Actor for the 1997 drama Blackrock . [1]
He played Jimmy Loughnan in Chopper (2000) 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 won Best Actor in a Telefeature or Mini-series for his role as Jack Meredith in the 2001 telemovie 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.[ citation needed ]
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.[ citation needed ]
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.[ citation needed ]
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 .[ citation needed ]
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.[ citation needed ]
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 |
2024 Just a Farmer Policeman and directed the film.
| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Road | Director | Tamarama Rock Surfers | |
| Diary of a Madman | Director | Tamarama Rock Surfers |
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