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Eamon Farren
Eamon Farren
Born	19 May 1985 (age 39); Queensland, Australia
Education	National Institute of Dramatic Art (BFA)
Occupation	Actor
Years active	2001–present

Eamon Farren (born 19 May 1985) is an Australian actor. Following starring roles in the films X: Night of Vengeance (2011) and Chained (2012), he came to prominence for portraying Richard Horne in the 2017 revival of Twin Peaks. He also won the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) award for Best Guest Or Supporting Actor in a Television Drama in 2015 for his role in the television film Carlotta (2014). Farren has since had film roles in Winchester (2018) and appeared in the series The ABC Murders (2018) and The Witcher (2019–present).

Early life and education

Farren was born in Ingham (North Queensland) and raised in the Gold Coast from the age of six.^[1] Farren always knew he wanted to be an actor: "I can't remember a time when I didn't watch a movie and think, 'That's what I want to do'... Growing up, people said you have to have a plan B. I never felt that, I always thought, nah, this is what I'm going to do."^[2] He attended Benowa State High School where he became school captain and studied in its French Immersion Program where students study typical subjects but receive at least half of their schooling in French.^[3] Farren graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 2007. He credits his brother and also actors Daniel Day-Lewis and Gary Oldman as his primary influences and inspiration.^[4]

Career

Farren began his career in the Showtime television film The Outsider, starring Naomi Watts and Tim Daly, in 2001,^[5] followed by a guest role in the Australian live action series, The Sleepover Club in 2002. He worked with several theatre companies in Australia, particularly the Sydney Theatre Company, the Griffin Theatre Company and the Belvoir Street Theatre.^[6] In 2007, he was cast as Cpl. John Powell in the HBO miniseries The Pacific.^[7]^[8]

Farren worked his way through all the visual arts in 2008, starring in The Man In The Attic with the Sydney Theatre Co., the film Lucky Country,^[5] and the Seven Network television series, All Saints.^[6] In 2012, he earned a starring role in Jennifer Lynch's film Chained, playing "Rabbit", a boy enslaved and raised by a serial killer played by Vincent D'Onofrio.^[5]^[6] Farren said, "... Shooting the film felt like second nature, the scenes would be focused but loose, incredibly tense but hilarious. I never had to say too much to her [Lynch], she would give me a look or whisper one word and I'd get it."^[9]

Farren's next major role was in the ABC TV tele-movie, Carlotta, playing Danny/Ava, a transgender mate of the main character, that earned him the AACTA Award in 2015 for Best Guest Or Supporting Actor in a Television Drama.^[6]^[10] Farren said of filming, "The whole thing was a highlight, but one of my favourite scenes to shoot was when Carol and Ava are on the way to buy hormones for the first time – corpsing never felt so right."^[11]

Farren's theatre career continued in 2014 with critically acclaimed roles as Edward Ridgeway in Switzerland and Elliott in Girl Asleep, which would be adapted to film and star Farren as a different character, Adam/Benoit Tremet, a year later.^[5]^[12]

Farren starred as Kirill in Sydney Theatre Co's The Present in 2015, reprising the role in 2017 for its Broadway production, which also starred Cate Blanchett in her Broadway debut.^[13]^[14]^[15]

Farren was cast as the character Richard Horne in the revival of the U.S. TV series Twin Peaks which aired in 2017.^[16]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2009	Lucky Country	Jimmy
2009	Blessed	Roo
2010	Wanderlust - Short Film	George	Short
2011	Jailbirds	Dane	Short
2011	X: Night of Vengeance	Harry
2011	Red Dog	Dave
2012	Three Sixty	Roc / Albert	Short
2012	Chained	Rabbit / Tim
2012	Careless Love	Patrick
2013	The Fragments	Michael	Short
2014	Love Is Now	Dean
2015	Girl Asleep	Adam / Benoit Tremet
2016	Measuring the Jump	Adam	Short
2017	Mohawk	Joshua Pinsmail
2018	Winchester	Ben Block
2018	Harmony	Jimmy
2019	Lingua Franca	Alex
2021	The Dig	John Brailsford
2021	On Our Watch	John Fuuber
2023	T.I.M.	T.I.M.	^[17]
2024	My First Film	Joe
2024	Mary	Satan, the Devil
TBA	Jimpa		Filming

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2002	The Outsider	Levi Miller	Television film
2003	The Sleepover Club	Dim / Video shop Guy	2 episodes
2008–2009	All Saints	Caleb / Cody Frost	2 episodes
2010	The Pacific	Cpl. John Powell	Episode: "Basilone"
2010	Rescue Special Ops	Arrow	Episode: "Off the Rails"
2014	The Killing Field	Damian Jeffries	Television film
2014	Carlotta	Danny / Ava	Television film AACTA Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actor in a Television Drama
2017	Twin Peaks	Richard Horne	6 episodes
2018	The ABC Murders	Alexander Bonaparte Cust	3 episodes
2019–present	The Witcher	Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach	Main role; 19 episodes
2024	Big Mood	Klent	Comedy Series

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Theater	Ref.
2008	The Kid	Donald	Griffin Theatre Company
2009	Ladybird	Slavik	Belvoir Street Theatre
2010	The Beauty Queen of Leenane	Ray Dooley	Royal Lyceum Theatre	^[18]
2013	Mrs Warren's Profession	Frank Gardner	Sydney Theatre Company	^[19]^[20]
2014	Mojo	Skinny	Sydney Theatre Company	^[21]^[22]
2014	Switzerland	Edward Ridgeway	Sydney Theatre Company	^[23]
2014	Girl Asleep	Elliott	Windmill Theatre
2014	Fugitive	Robin	Windmill Theatre
2015	The Present	Kirill	Sydney Theatre Company	^[24]

Awards and nominations

2015: Winner, Best Guest or Supporting Actor in a Television Drama – as "Danny/Ava" in Carlotta. Australian Academy of Cinema & Television Arts (AACTA).^[6]^[10]; Nominee, Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Mainstream Production – as "Edward Ridgeway" in Switzerland. Sydney Theatre Awards.^[6]
2010: Runner up, Heath Ledger Scholarship, Australians In Film, 2010.^[6]