Nicholas Hope
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Nicholas Hope is an English born Australian actor currently living in Sydney, Australia. He is probably best known for his role in Bad Boy Bubby
(1993), for which he won the Australian Film Institute
Best Actor in a Leading Role award in 1994. He continues to work in film, theatre and television in Australia and Europe.
In 2004, he wrote a memoir called Brushing the Tip of Fame (1994, Bantam Australia; ISBN 1863254404), and in 2006 produced a monologue 'The Colour of Panic", which played in Sydney (The Studio, Sydney Opera House) and Oslo (Det Åpne Teater). He is currently completing a PhD in Performance Studies.
Bad Boy Bubby
Bad Boy Bubby is an Australian black comedy/drama film written and directed by Rolf de Heer. It stars Nicholas Hope and Carmel Johnson. It was released in 1993....
(1993), for which he won the Australian Film Institute
Australian Film Institute
The Australian Film Institute was founded in 1958 as a non-profit organisation devoted to developing an active film culture in Australia and fostering engagement between the general public and the Australian film industry...
Best Actor in a Leading Role award in 1994. He continues to work in film, theatre and television in Australia and Europe.
In 2004, he wrote a memoir called Brushing the Tip of Fame (1994, Bantam Australia; ISBN 1863254404), and in 2006 produced a monologue 'The Colour of Panic", which played in Sydney (The Studio, Sydney Opera House) and Oslo (Det Åpne Teater). He is currently completing a PhD in Performance Studies.
Partial filmography
- Bad Boy BubbyBad Boy BubbyBad Boy Bubby is an Australian black comedy/drama film written and directed by Rolf de Heer. It stars Nicholas Hope and Carmel Johnson. It was released in 1993....
(1993) - Bubby - ExileExile (1994 film)Exile is a 1994 Australian drama film directed by Paul Cox. It was entered into the 44th Berlin International Film Festival. The film was shot entirely on location in Tasmania.-Cast:* Aden Young as Peter Costello* Beth Champion as Mary...
(1994) - The Goddess of 1967The Goddess of 1967The Goddess of 1967 is a 2000 Australian film directed by Macau-born Australian Clara Law, who wrote the script with her husband Eddie Ling-Ching Fong....
(2000) - Grandpa - Scooby Doo (2002) - Old Man Smithers
- Paradise FoundParadise Found (film)Paradise Found is a 2003 biographical film based on the life of Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin.-Plot:The film covers a later part of Gauguin's life when he resigned his job as a stock broker to paint full-time and journey to Polynesia...
(2003) - Maurrin - Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood OrchidAnacondas: The Hunt for the Blood OrchidAnacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid is a 2004 horror-thriller film and sequel to the 1997 film Anaconda. It was directed by Dwight H. Little and was released in the United States on August 27, 2004. The plot of the movie entails a group of explorers looking for a sacred flower that they...
(2004) - Christian Van Dyke - Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler?Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler?Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler? is an Australian documentary film about the mysterious deaths of Dr Gilbert Bogle and Mrs Margaret Chandler in Sydney, Australia in 1963. Although it was assumed the couple were murdered, police investigators could find or produce no evidence that it was...
(2006) - Geoffrey Chandler - UroUro (film)Uro is a 2006 Norwegian crime film starring Nicolai Cleve Broch and Ane Dahl Torp. It was directed by Stefan Faldbakken. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.-Plot:...
(2006) - The Prime Minister is Dead (2008) - William McMahonWilliam McMahonSir William "Billy" McMahon, GCMG, CH , was an Australian Liberal politician and the 20th Prime Minister of Australia...
- 3 Acts of Murder (2009) - Harry Manning
External links
- Australia: The Dream is Dead, article written by Hope
- Interview from July 2004
- Hope takes the rap