Simon Lyndon
Simon Lyndon (born February 1971, in London

London

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 is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n actor who grew up in Fremantle

Fremantle

Freemantle is a suburb of Southampton in England.Fremantle or Freemantle may also refer to:- Places :* Fremantle, the port city to the capital Perth, Western Australia...

, Western Australia

Western Australia

Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

. He is a WAAPA graduate. He played Jimmy Loughlin in Chopper

Chopper (film)

Chopper is a 2000 Australian film, written and directed by New Zealand film-maker Andrew Dominik and based on the semi-autobiographical books by Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read. The film stars Eric Bana as the title character, and co-stars Vince Colosimo, Simon Lyndon, Bill Young and David Field...

with Eric Bana

Eric Bana

Eric Bana is an Australian film and television actor. He began his career as a comedian in the sketch comedy series Full Frontal before gaining critical recognition in the biopic Chopper...

, for which he won an AFI award

Australian Film Institute Awards

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 for Best Supporting Actor and a Film Critics Circle of Australia

Film Critics Circle of Australia

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 Award for best supporting actor. He received AFI nominations for Best Supporting Actor for Blackrock

Blackrock (film)

Blackrock is a 1997 Australian film directed by Steven Vidler and written by Nick Enright. Internationally, it is best remembered as the first prominent role of actor Heath Ledger.-Origin:...

(as "Ricko") and Best actor in a telefeature or mini-series for his role in My Brother Jack

My Brother Jack

My Brother Jack is a classic Australian novel by writer George Johnston. It is part of a trilogy centring on the character of David Meredith...

. Other films include Fresh Air, Sample People, The Thin Red Line

The Thin Red Line (1998 film)

The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American war film which tells a fictional story of United States forces during the Battle of Mount Austen in World War II. It portrays men in: C Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division; in particular those soldiers played by Sean Penn, Jim...

, From the Outside Caught Inside, Falling into Paradise, The Glenmore Job The Well and Dust off the Wings He has appeared on stage That Eye the Sky, Blackrock

Blackrock (play)

Blackrock is a play by Australian playwright Nick Enright. It was inspired by the real-life rape and murder of schoolgirl Leigh Leigh in Stockton, near Newcastle, Australia on 3 November 1989.It won the 1996 AWGIE Award for Best Play.-Origins:...

, Cloudstreet

Cloudstreet

Cloudstreet is a novel by Australian writer Tim Winton. It chronicles the lives of two working class Australian families who come to live together at One Cloud Street, in a suburb of Perth, over a period of twenty years, 1943 - 1963...

 and Popcorn

Popcorn (play)

Popcorn is a 1998 play by English author Ben Elton adapted from his novel of the same title....

. His TV appearances include Police Rescue

Police Rescue

Police Rescue was an Australian television series which originally aired on ABC TV between 1989 and 1996. It was produced by ABC and Southern Star Xanadu in association with the BBC....

, Heartbreak High

Heartbreak High

Heartbreak High is an Australian television series that ran for seven years from 1994 to 1999. The series dealt with the students of Hartley High, a tough high school in a multi-racial area of Sydney, and proved to be a more gritty and fast-paced show than many of its contemporaries...

, Wildside, Underbelly

Underbelly (TV series)

Underbelly is a 13-part Australian television mini-series that retells the real events of the 1995–2004 gangland war in Melbourne, and is the first series in the larger Underbelly Franchise. It depicts the key players in Melbourne's criminal underworld, including the Carlton Crew and their rival,...

Canal Road

Canal Road

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and Spirited 2 [Foxtel]. He has directed Tamarama Rock Surfers

Tamarama Rock Surfers

The Tamarama Rock Surfers are an independent theatre company who operate out of the Old Fitzroy Hotel in Woolloomooloo, New South Wales, Australia, and beyond. Formed by a collection of local actor/surfers in 1998, they felt at the time there was lack of a platform for new voices in the industry...

 production of "Road" featuring among others Bojana Novacovitch, Jeremy Cumpston, Zena Cumpston and Angie Milliken and Tamaram Rock Surfers production of " Diary of a Madman" starring Alan Morris.

In 2011 he played a younger Jack Thompson in" Paper Giants - The Birth of Cleo Magazine", on ABC 1. He plays the miner who died in the upcoming TV film about the Beaconsfield mine disaster.

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