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Steve Le Marquand | |
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| Born | Steve Le Marquand 26 December 1967 |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Spouse | Pippa Grandison |
| Children | Charlie Le Marquand |
| Relatives | Sarrah Le Marquand (sister) |
Steve Le Marquand (born 26 December 1967) is an Australian-born actor, known both locally and internationally for his film and stage work.
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Born in Perth, Western Australia in 1967, his family moved to Sydney when he was quite young.
His younger sister is the columnist and media commentator Sarrah Le Marquand.
He is married to Australian actress and singer Pippa Grandison and they have a child together, Charlie.
He is commonly referred to by his nickname, Slem (his initials).
He played cricket for a number of years for many different teams and was also selected for various representative teams. His top score was 116* and best bowling figures of 8/9.
Lives in Lake Clifton in rural WA.
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Prior to acting, Le Marquand motorcycled his way around Australia, working at various cattle stations, docks, pubs, barges and melon farms. He then studied performing arts at Penrith in Sydney's outer west at the University of Western Sydney (Theatre Nepean) before stumbling across agent Penny Williams in 1992.[ citation needed ]
His first job was a TV commercial for Arnott's Ruffles which was banned a day after its release for sacrilege.[ citation needed ] His second job was on the Australian TV series Police Rescue and since then he has played an assortment of thugs, baddies, larrikins and cops (both good and bad) in a number of TV shows, including Les Norton , Australia's Sexiest Tradie , Janet King ; [1] Underbelly: Razor , Rake , Laid , All Saints , Farscape , Crash Palace , Young Lions , Blue Heelers , Water Rats , Big Sky , G.P. , Murder Call , Home and Away , Wildside , and the ABC mini-series A Difficult Woman . He played the lead role of Tony Piccolo in the Movie Extra hit Small Time Gangster for which he received an ASTRA Award nomination for Most Outstanding Actor.[ citation needed ]
In 2021 he appeared in Australia's Sexiest Tradie. [2] , In 2023 Marquand was announced as part of the cast for Population 11, the second season of The Twelve. [3] Marquand was later announced as part of the cast for Invisible Boys. [4]
On film he has featured as a crazed colonel in Escape and Evasion; a cheeky cabbie in June Again ; a psycho gangster in Locusts ; a reclusive cattle station worker in Kriv Stender's Red Dog: True Blue ; a down and out ex Rugby League star in Heath Davis' Broke ; a sleazy, charismatic cult leader in Nick Matthews' One Eyed Girl ; a dodgy drug dealer in Stephan Elliott's A Few Best Men ; a battle hardened sergeant in Beneath Hill 60 (which earned him a Film Critics Circle of Australia Best Supporting Actor nomination 2009); a snarly stockbroker in 2008's surprise hit, Men's Group ; a tall thug in Jeremy Sims’ Last Train to Freo (for which he was nominated for Best Lead Actor at both the Australian Film Institute and Film Critic's Circle Awards); a WWII digger in Kokoda ; a larrikin Aussie climber in Martin Campbell's Vertical Limit ; a clumsy, shotty-loving bank robber in Gregor Jordan's Two Hands ; a moustachioed cop in David Caesar's Mullet ; a weird-arsed beachcomber in Lost Things and an all-singing-all-dancing sailor in Disney’s remake of South Pacific .
He won the Nicole Kidman Best Actor Award at Tropfest 1996 for (his own) short film Cliché, and was also the lead actor in the Tropfest 2005 hit, Bomb.
Le Marquand has been seen on stage in Green Park,Ugly Mugs, Songket and The Return (which was the stage version of Last Train to Freo ) for Griffin Theatre; Gaybies for Darlinghurst Theatre; Enemy of the People, Jasper Jones, Death of a Salesman , Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (also for MTC and QTC), Paul, The Spook, Buried Child and Waiting For Godot for Belvoir; Holy Day for the STC, Don’s Party for the MTC and STC; and was a member of the STC's Actors' Company, where he appeared in Tales From The Vienna Woods; The Serpent's Teeth; Gallipoli and The War of the Roses (alongside Cate Blanchett) with the Company.
Le Marquand (together with Simon Bedak and Michael Neaylon) co-wrote, [5] produced, directed and starred in a theatre production of the novel He Died with a Felafel in His Hand , which had its humble beginnings at Rozelle's Bridge Hotel in Sydney during 1995 before running for several years in Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Lismore, Hobart, Brisbane, Edinburgh, Toronto, New York, Wagga Wagga and Hong Kong. [6] The stage adaptation's 'rough as guts' humour saw it become the longest running play in Australian history. [7]
In 2019, during The Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival in Winton, Queensland, Le Marquand was honoured with a star on Winton's Walk of Fame. [8]
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| TBA | Shackle | Rony | Pre-production |
| TBA | Piggy | Jack | Pre-production |
| 2023 | Christmess | Chris Flint | Feature film |
| 2022 | Dark Noise | Ollie Martin | |
| 2021 | Lundi | Louis | Short film |
| 2020 | June Again | Roger | Feature film |
| 2020 | Jump | Joe | Short film |
| 2020 | Torch Song | Geoff | Short film |
| 2019 | Locusts | Cain | Feature film |
| 2019 | Escape and Evasion | Carl Boddi | Feature film |
| 2019 | Kapara | Patterson | Short film |
| 2018 | Schedule One | Henry | Short film |
| 2018 | Book Week | Brant | |
| 2018 | Riot | Sergeant Evans | TV movie |
| 2017 | No Appointment Necessary | Dr Schnell | |
| 2016 | Silent Lamb | Brody Chapman | Short film |
| 2016 | Red Dog: True Blue | Little John | Feature film |
| 2016 | Broke | Ben Kelly | |
| 2016 | Banana Boy | Bob | Short film |
| 2015 | Moth | Peter | Short film |
| 2015 | Terminus | Sheriff Williams | Feature film |
| 2014 | Kill Me Three Times | Sam | Feature film |
| 2013 | One Eyed Girl | Father Jay | Feature film |
| 2011 | A Few Best Men | Ray | Feature film |
| 2011 | Boys on Film | Mike Bishop | |
| 2010 | Beneath Hill 60 | Bill Fraser | Feature film |
| 2009 | Into My Arms | Ben | Short film |
| 2009 | Franswa Sharl | Mike Bishop | Short film |
| 2008 | Dream Life | Courier | TV movie |
| 2008 | Men's Group | Lucas | Feature film |
| 2007 | The Manual | Sonny's Father | Short film |
| 2007 | Razzle Dazzle | Bob | Feature film |
| 2006 | Last Train to Freo | Tall Thug | Feature film |
| 2006 | Kokoda | Sam | Feature film |
| 2005 | Aerosol | The Worker | Short film |
| 2005 | Bomb | Man | Short film |
| 2004 | Lovesong | Alexander | Short film |
| 2003 | Ash Wednesday | Short film | |
| 2003 | Lost Things | Zippo | Feature film |
| 2002 | Sway | Jake | |
| 2001 | The Hitch | Driver | Short film |
| 2001 | Mullet | Jones | Feature film |
| 2001 | Slipper | Podiatrist | Short film |
| 2001 | South Pacific | Stewpot | TV movie |
| 2000 | Vertical Limit | Cyril Bench | Feature film |
| 1999 | Two Hands | Wozza | Feature film |
| 1998 | Bloodlock | Flint | Short film |
| 1998 | In the Winter Dark | Nick | Feature film |
| 1996 | Cliche | Tim | Short film |
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Invisible Boys | TBA | TV series |
| 2024 | The Twelve | Mal Adcock | TV series |
| 2024 | Population 11 | Trevor | TV series, 9 episodes |
| 2023 | The Claremont Murders | Trevor Rimmer | TV miniseries, 1 episode |
| 2021 | Australia's Sexiest Tradie | Terry Wood | TV series, 6 episodes |
| 2019 | Les Norton | Sgt Ray 'Thumper' Burrell | TV series, 10 episodes |
| 2010-18 | Rake | Col Mancusi | 16 episodes |
| 1993-18 | Home and Away | Boyd Easton / Beggar / Kevin | 9 episodes |
| 2017 | Blue Murder: Killer Cop | Detective Larry Churchill | TV miniseries, 1 episode |
| 2017 | Janet King | Wes Foster | 6 episodes |
| 2016 | No Activity | Voice | 3 episodes |
| 2015 | Let's Talk About | Chip | 8 episodes |
| 2015 | Catching Milat | Phil Polgasse | TV miniseries, 1 episode |
| 2014 | Soul Mates | Guliver | 2 episodes |
| 2014 | Wentworth | Colin Bates | Season 2, 4 episodes |
| 2014 | Old School | Gerard | 2 episodes |
| 2014 | The Moodys | Donny | 1 episode |
| 2013 | The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting | Special guest | 2 episodes |
| 2011 | Underbelly: Razor | Sergeant Tom Wickham | 13 episodes |
| 2011 | Small Time Gangster [9] | Tony Piccolo | 8 episodes |
| 2011 | Laid | Zalan | 1 episode |
| 2010 | Sea Patrol | Karl Strauss | 1 episode |
| 2009 | Sea Princesses | Voice | Animated TV series, 52 episodes |
| 2004 | Rapid Response | Sergeant Lawson | TV pilot |
| 2003 | All Saints | Boyd Matthews | 1 episode |
| 2002 | Young Lions | SPG Officer Stevens | 1 episode |
| 2002 | Farscape | Oo-Nii | 2 episodes |
| 1999 | Blue Heelers | Tyrone | 1 episode |
| 1999 | Murder Call | David Hand | 1 episode |
| 1997-99 | Wildside | Ray Collins | 2 episodes |
| 1998 | A Difficult Woman | Snuff | 2 episodes |
| 1997 | Big Sky | Bill Madigan | 1 episode |
| 1997 | Water Rats | Tim | 1 episode |
| 1994 | G.P. | Russ | 1 episode |
| 1993 | Police Rescue | Youth | 1 episode |
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