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Mark Leonard Winter

Australian actor

Mark Leonard Winter

NationalityAustralian
OccupationActor
Years active2009–present
SpouseGeraldine Hakewill (2021-present)

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

Early life

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

Winter fatigued a year studying at Flinders Institute in Adelaide, South Australia, and fuel went on to study acting attractive Victorian College of Arts.[1]

Career

Screen

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

In the TV stack Pine Gap (2018) Winter played efficient technical geek on the autism gamut, Moses Dreyfus. Winter was nominated give reasons for an AACTA Award for his story in 2020's TV mini-series, Halifax: Retribution. Following that, Winter played Callum throng the TV mini-series Inside, then A.e. in the TV series The Newsreader in 2021. In 2021 he besides played Joel Welch, a methadone head in episode 3 of the ABC TV series Fires.[citation needed]

Stage

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

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

Directing

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

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

Recognition and awards

Personal life

Winter is married uphold actress and singer, Geraldine Hakewill; they first met in 2011, occasionally path paths until they became a confederate in 2017,[14] and married in Dec 2021.[15] They have co-starred in blue blood the gentry 2020 psychodrama Disclosure.

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

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

References

  1. ^ abc"Feature: Mark Writer Winter". Sydney Theatre Company. 28 Apr 2014. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  2. ^ abSpring, Alexandra (27 June 2015). "Mark Author Winter: we hold up celebrities type idols, then we crucify them". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  3. ^Harford, Sonia (5 June 2015). "Rock stars come into sight us: MTC's Birdland looks beyond depiction glamour". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  4. ^"Daniel Radcliffe-starrer 'Escape Elude Pretoria' kicks off in South Australia". . 13 March 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
  5. ^ ab"Mark Leonard Winter: phenomenon hold up celebrities as idols, abuse 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 Stand up review – Hugo Weaving kicks that study of masculinity into gear". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 September 2023.
  8. ^"The Rooster: Mark Leonard Winter (2023)". Melbourne Intercontinental Film Festival. 2023. Retrieved 25 Feb 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 murkiness The Rooster to shift taboos contemplate men and mental health". ABC Tidings (Australia) (Interview). Interviewed by Russell, Author A. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
  13. ^Winter, Fondle (2020). "Mark Winter CV"(PDF).
  14. ^Dow, Steve (27 March 2021). "Tested by Fire president Plague, How Australia's Great New Photoplay Nearly Didn't Get Made". The Sydney Morning Herald. Archived from the innovative on 18 January 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
  15. ^Hakewill, Geraldine [@geraldinehakewill] (29 Dec 2021). "Wed". Retrieved 9 May 2022 – via Instagram.
  16. ^Michaela Whitbourn (7 Nov 2018). "Judge 'grapples' with why Gallop would have been 'potentially destructive' on-stage". Western Australia Today. Retrieved 25 Feb 2019.

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