Nathan Phillips (actor)

Nathan Phillips
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1999–present

Nathan Phillips is an Australian actor.

Life and career

His professional acting career began in 1999, with a role on the popular Australian soap opera Neighbours. His television career was later followed by roles in Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story, Blue Heelers, Something in the Air and The Saddle Club.

In 2002, he made his feature film debut with a role in Warriors of Virtue: The Return to Tao (also starring Kevin Smith, Shedrack Anderson III and Nina Liu). His next role, the lead in Australian Rules, earned him a nomination for the Film Critics Circle of Australia's Best Actor award, alongside David Gulpilil, Guy Pearce and Vince Colosimo.

Phillips's film career has seen him star in both Australian productions, such as Take Away (with Rose Byrne), One Perfect Day (with Abbie Cornish) and Under the Radar, and Hollywood productions such as Chernobyl Diaries, Redline and Surfer, Dude and most notably Snakes on a Plane. He is perhaps most known for his role as backpacker Ben Mitchell in the 2005 hit horror film Wolf Creek.^[1] After the success of this film, Phillips moved to Los Angeles, where he was based for several years.^[2]

Although tipped for big things in Hollywood after the success of Wolf Creek, Phillips chose to go travelling for long periods of time, rather than focus on his career as an actor.^[3] Phillips' career has, to date, consisted mostly of roles in low budget films and television work, such as his role as Tom Wills, Australia's first significant cricketer and father of Australian rules football.^[4] In 2020, Phillips appeared in the Nine Network series Halifax: Retribution.

From 2019 on, Phillips is back living in his native Australia and working on television and film projects there.^[5] In addition to acting, Phillips was a producer of 2019's Blood Vessel.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story	Hugh	TV movie
2002	Australian Rules	Gary "Blacky" Black	Feature film
	Warriors of Virtue: The Return to Tao	Ryan Jeffers	Feature film
2003	Take Away	Dave	Feature film
2004	Under the Radar	Brandon	Feature film
	One Perfect Day	Trig	Feature film
2005	Wolf Creek	Ben Mitchell	Feature film
	You and Your Stupid Mate	Philip	Feature film
2006	Snakes on a Plane	Sean Jones	Feature film
2007	West	Jerry	Feature film
	Redline	Carlo	Feature film
2008	Surfer, Dude	Baker Smith	Feature film
	Dying Breed	Jack	Feature film
2009	Balibo	Malcolm Rennie	Feature film
2010	Summer Coda	Joey	Feature film
	Quit	Benji
2012	Chernobyl Diaries	Michael	Feature film
2014	These Final Hours	James	Feature film
	Tom Wills	Tom Wills	Feature film
2019	Blood Vessel	Sinclair	Feature film
2021	The Devil Below	Cain	Feature film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1999	Neighbours	John "Teabag" Teasdale	TV series
2001	The Saddle Club	Red O'Malley #1	TV series
2014	The Bridge	Jack Dobbs	TV series
2016	Hunters	Flynn Carroll	TV series
2020	Halifax: Retribution		TV series

Awards

• Nominated: 2001 Film Critics Circle of Australia: Best Actor (Australian Rules).^[6]

References

1. "'Snakes on a Plane' and the Simple Pleasures of Silly Horror Movies - Bloody Disgusting". 17 April 2020.
2. "Nathan Phillips". Retrieved 18 July 2022. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
3. "These Final Hours star Nathan Phillips lives life like there's no tomorrow". Interfax-Ukraine. 30 July 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
4. Flanagan, Martin (5 August 2016). "Tom Wills one hell of a story", The Age. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
5. "A Chat with Nathan Phillips – Blood Vessel, Acting in Australia, and Living with Yowies - the Curb". 4 August 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2022. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
6. In the running. The Age (16 October 2002)

External links

• Nathan Phillips at IMDb