Aaron Blabey is an Australian actor

Actor

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, artist

Artist

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 and children's writer

Children's literature

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. He played the title role in the 1995 television drama The Damnation of Harvey McHugh

The Damnation of Harvey McHugh

The Damnation of Harvey McHugh is a television miniseries made by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The series consists of 12 episodes and was first broadcast on the ABC in 1994.-Cast and crew:...

 for which he won an Australian Film Institute Award.

History

Blabey appeared in various, largely minor, television and film roles throughout the 1990s and 2000s and had been involved in several theatrical productions. From the mid-2000s Blabey turned is attention away from acting towards painting. Blabey has also written and illustrated two children's books. The first, Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley, published in July 2007, received a Children's Book Council of Australia Award

Children's Book Council of Australia

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 in 2008 for the Early Childhood category. His second book, Sunday Chutney, was published in June 2008.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Other notes
1989	G.P.	Sean	Television series
1993	Phoenix Phoenix (TV series) Phoenix is an Australian police drama television series. Phoenix screened as two thirteen-part series on Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1992 and 1993....		Television episode
1994	The Man from Snowy River The Man From Snowy River (TV series) The Man from Snowy River is an Australian television series based on Banjo Paterson's poem "The Man from Snowy River". Released in Australia as Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River, the series was subsequently released in the United States as Snowy River: The McGregor Saga.The television...	Jimmy Wilks	Television episode
	Halifax f.p	Tony Lobianco	Television
	The Damnation of Harvey McHugh The Damnation of Harvey McHugh The Damnation of Harvey McHugh is a television miniseries made by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. The series consists of 12 episodes and was first broadcast on the ABC in 1994.-Cast and crew:...	Harvey McHugh	Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor In A Leading Role In A Television Drama Australian Film Institute Awards The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award, known as the AACTA Award , is an accolade presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts . The awards recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry and television industry, including directors,...
	Blue Heelers Blue Heelers Blue Heelers is an Australian police drama series which depicted the lives of police officers stationed at the fictional Mount Thomas police station in a small town in Victoria.- Overview :...	Robbie Davies	Television episode
1996	Turning April	Leif
	Twisted Tales	Nick	Television episode
	Mr Reliable	Bruce Morrison
1997	Fallen Angels Fallen Angels (Australian TV series) Fallen Angels was an Australian television series screened on the ABC in 1997. There was only one series of 20 episodes produced. The series was set around a community legal centre in Endeavour Park, a fictional western suburb of Sydney...	Jim Phelps	Television episode
	Medivac Medivac (TV series) Medivac was an Australian television drama series that ran on Network Ten from 1996 to 1998. There were 48 episodes produced. Medivac is an abbreviation of the term medical evacuation...	Danny Haywood	Television series
	Wildside	Warren Beckett	Television series
	Water Rats Water Rats (TV series) Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001. The series was based around the men and women of the Sydney Water Police who fight crime across Sydney Harbour and surrounding locales. The show was set on and around Goat Island in Sydney...	Gary Travis	Television series
1998	Day of the Roses	Dr White
	Pentuphouse	Dale
1999	Erskineville Kings Erskineville Kings Erskineville Kings was a Radical Media production made for Palace Films on a minimal budget and directed by newcomer Alan White. It was released on 1 January 1999...	Tunny
	All Saints All Saints (TV series) All Saints is an Australian medical drama which first screened on the Seven Network. The series debuted on 24 February 1998 and concluded its run on 27 October 2009...	Scott	Telesision episode
	Water Rats Water Rats (TV series) Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001. The series was based around the men and women of the Sydney Water Police who fight crime across Sydney Harbour and surrounding locales. The show was set on and around Goat Island in Sydney...	Doug Porter	Television series
2000	Stingers Stingers Stingers was an Australian police drama television series. It ran for eight seasons on the Nine Network before it was canceled in late 2004 due to declining ratings and the late timeslot Channel Nine gave the program...	Michael Callum	Nominated for Australian Film Institute Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role in a Television Drama Series Australian Film Institute Awards The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award, known as the AACTA Award , is an accolade presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts . The awards recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry and television industry, including directors,...
	Grass Roots	Sandy Maxwell	Television episode
2001	Mullet Mullet (film) Mullet is an Australian film released in 2001, written and directed by David Caesar, and starring Ben Mendelsohn, Susie Porter and Andrew Gilbert.-Plot summary:...	Terry
2003	CrashBurn CrashBurn CrashBurn was an Australian 13-part drama series airing on Network Ten, about surviving long-term relationships in an age where multiple partners and multiple orgasms are considered a birthright....	Ben Harfield	Television series
2004	Human Touch	David
	Through My Eyes: The Lindy Chamberlain Story	Kirkham
2005	MDA MDA (TV series) MDA is an Australian television series that aired between 2002 and 2005 on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation . It concerned the day-to-day operation of legal firm MDA, which specialised in medical defence.-Synopsis:...	Luke Rodman	Television series
2006	The 9:13	Thunder