Luke Baines is an Australian actor and singer, perhaps best known for playing Cameron on the Australian television series, Home & Away on Channel 7

Seven Network

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Early life

Luke grew up in the beach-side suburb of Cronulla, Sydney and began acting lessons when he was five years old.

Luke attended The McDonald College of Performing Arts in North Strathfield, New South Wales where he studied drama, music and dance.

Career

In 2004, Luke starred in Home & Away, playing 'Cameron' – a transfer student from Yabbie Creek High. In the same year, Luke also appeared alongside his former classmate Bojana Novakovic

Bojana Novakovic

Bojana Novakovic is a Serbian Australian actress who works in Australia and the United States.-Early and personal life:Novakovic was born in 1981 in Serbia. She moved to Australia in 1988, at the age of seven. Novakovic was initially interested in becoming a social worker or doctor, but after a...

 in Channel 10

Network Ten

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’s The Cooks

The Cooks

The Cooks was an Australian television drama series that ran for one season on Network Ten during the summer of 2004/05. It was a co-production with subscription television and screened on the UKTV channel on Foxtel. It was produced by Penny Chapman and Sue Masters...

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For six months in 2008, Luke auditioned for the West End

West End theatre

West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...

 production of Spring Awakening

Spring Awakening

Spring Awakening is a rock musical adaptation of the controversial 1892 German play of the same title by Frank Wedekind. It features music by Duncan Sheik and a book and lyrics by Steven Sater. Set in late-19th century Germany, it concerns teenagers who are discovering the inner and outer tumult of...

 the musical. In November of that year, he performed in the workshop at the Lyric Hammersmith

Lyric Hammersmith

The Lyric Theatre, also known as the Lyric Hammersmith, is a theatre on King Street, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, which takes pride in its original, "groundbreaking" productions....

 in the role of Hanschen.

Notable performances

• 2007: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland .... Mad Hatter
• 2004: The McDonald College 20th Anniversary concert
• 2004: Footloose (musical)
  Footloose (musical)
  Footloose is a 1998 musical based on the 1984 film of the same name. The music is by Tom Snow , the lyrics by Dean Pitchford , and the book by Pitchford and Walter Bobbie.-Act 1:...
  
   .... Ren McCormack

External links

• Luke Baines Official website