Simon Lyndon

Simon Lyndon
Born
London, England, United Kingdom
EducationWestern Australian Academy of Performing Arts
Occupation(s)Actor, director

Simon Lyndon is an Australian actor and director.

Early life and education

Simon Lyndon was born in Lewisham, S E London, in 1971 and migrated to Australia with his family in 1981. He grew up in Fremantle, Western Australia. Simon attended John Curtin College of the Arts in the Theatre Arts program and later graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth.[citation needed]

Career

Film roles

Lyndon received Australian Film Institute Award (AFI) nominations for Best Supporting Actor for the 1997 drama Blackrock.[1]

He played Jimmy Loughnan in Chopper (2000) with Eric Bana, for which he won an AFI Award for Best Supporting Actor,[1] and a Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Supporting Actor.[2]

He won Best Actor in a Telefeature or Mini-series for his role as Jack Meredith in the 2001 telemovie My Brother Jack.[3]

Other films include Fresh Air, Sample People, The Thin Red Line, From the Outside,[4] Caught Inside,[5] Falling in the Paradise,[6] The Glenmore Job,[7] The Well and Dust off the Wings[8]

Television roles

Lyndon's TV appearances include Police Rescue, Heartbreak High, Wildside,[4] Underbelly[9] and Canal Road.[10]

He also appeared in FOX network show Roar in 1997 as a tribe leader named Colm. The lead role of Connor Der Kilte was played by fellow Australian and Lyndon's former Blackrock co-star Heath Ledger.[citation needed]

In 2011 he played a younger Jack Thompson in Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo on ABC 1. He played the miner who died, Larry Knight, in the TV film Beaconsfield about the 2006 mine disaster. Also in 2011 Simon appeared in the second series of Spirited, on Foxtel, playing a ghost known as 'The King' or Darren Bonney, who lives in an apartment with a dentist (Claudia Karvan), who is in love with another ghost resident.[citation needed]

Simon played Tintagel Stone in an episode of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries in 2012. He also appeared in TV series Puberty Blues as a surfing teacher Gumby that same year.[citation needed]

He appeared as Emilio the truck business owner in season 2 of Mystery Road (episodes 1–3). He also played the unfortunate Hedwig's father Michael in the 2021 Netflix series Eden, and Twist in 2022 ABC TV series Troppo.[citation needed]

Stage roles

In 2013 Lyndon was in a four-person play called Anaconda by Sarah Doyle, with Tamarama Rock Surfers at Bondi Pavilion. He has also directed a Tamarama Rock Surfers production of Road, featuring among others Bojana Novakovic, Jeremy Cumpston, Zena Cumpston and Angie Milliken, as well as a Tamarama Rock Surfers production of Diary of a Madman starring Alan Morris.

In June/July 2017 Lyndon appeared in Sunset Strip, a four-person play by Suzie Miller, performed by Stables Theatre Company at Griffin Theatre in Darlinghurst. He reprised this role in a tour around Australia by the same company in 2019.[citation needed]

He has also appeared on stage in That Eye the Sky, Blackrock (in a different role to which he played in the film version), Cloudstreet and Popcorn.[4]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Type
1995 Sidewinder – Titanic Days Rick Short film
1997 Blackrock Brett 'Ricko' Ricketson Feature film
1997 The Well Abel Feature film
1997 Dust Off the Wings Gazza Feature film
1998 Bloodlock Reffo Short film
1998 The Thin Red Line Medic #2 Feature film
1999 Fresh Air Harrison Feature film
2000 Sample People Andy Feature film
2000 Chopper Jimmy Loughnan Feature film
2000 Dogwoman: A Grrrl's Best Friend Matt Heyduke TV movie
2001 My Brother Jack Jack Meredith TV movie
2004 Falling in the Paradise (aka Pad u raj) Jonathan Schumacher Feature film
2005 The Glenmoore Job Warren TV movie
2006 Stalled Rob Short film
2006 Guy in a Field Guy Short film
2006 Warhead Short film
2007 Shotgun! (An Opening Sequence) Steve Short film
2007 BlackJack: Ghosts Johnny Vale TV movie
2008 Valentine's Day Bean TV movie
2009 The Last Supper Andrew Short film
2009 Hunted Bud Short film
2009 Facing Rupert Steve Swanson Short film
2010 Caught Inside Toobs Feature film
2012 Loaded Lee Short film
2012 Beaconsfield Larry Knight TV movie
2013 Thanks for the Ride Oliver Short film
2015 Colt 13 Simmo Short film
2015 Pedal Cannon Short film
2017 Concealed Max Feature film
2017 Foreign Body Adam Short film
2017 Red Handed Stalker Short film
2020 Necktie David Short film
2022 Maddie's Red Hot Dylan Short film
From the Outside

2024 Just a Farmer Policeman and directed the film.

Television

Year Title Role Type
1995 Soldier Soldier Fusilier Michael Vickers TV series, 1 episode
1996 Police Rescue Matt TV series, 1 episode
1997 Heartbreak High JJ TV series, 2 episodes
1997 Roar Colm TV series, 1 episode
1998 Wildside John 'Scratch' Scratchley TV series, 2 episodes
2000 All Saints Will Harrington TV series, 1 episode
2001 Water Rats Kevin O'Shea TV series, 1 episode
1999 / 2001 Stingers Ben Matthews / Hickock TV series, 2 episodes
2007 City Homicide Josh Braddock TV series, 1 episode
2008 Underbelly Sean Sonnet TV series, 3 episodes
2008 Canal Road Daryl King TV miniseries, 3 episodes
2008 Rush Snuffy Wells TV series, 1 episode
2010 Cops L.A.C. Cameron TV series, 1 episode
2011 Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo Jack Thompson TV miniseries, 2 episodes
2011 Wild Boys Hogan TV series, 1 episode
2011 Spirited 'The King' / Darren Bonney TV series, season 2, 10 episodes
2012 Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Tintagel Stone TV series, season 1, episode 3: "The Green Mill Murder"
2012 Puberty Blues Gumby TV series, 3 episodes
2015 Deadline Gallipoli Conrad White TV miniseries, 1 episode
2019 Mr Inbetween Pidgy TV series, 1 episode
2020 Mystery Road Emilio Gordon TV series, season 2, episodes 1–3
2021 Eden Michael TV series, 3 episodes
2022–24 Troppo Twist TV series, 9 episodes

Theatre

As actor

Year Title Role Venue / Co.
1994 Thark Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
1995 That Eye, The Sky Playhouse Perth, Space Theatre, Adelaide
1995 Blackrock Jared Wharf 1 Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company, Canberra Theatre
1996 Live Acts on Stage Stables Theatre
1998 Cloudstreet Berth 9, Darling Harbour
2007 The Birthday Party FAD Gallery, Melbourne, St Kilda Army and Navy Club Memorial Hall
2013 Anaconda Bondi Oabilion with Tamarama Rock Surfers
2017, 2019 Sunset Strip Stables Theatre Company at Griffin Theatre & Australia tour
Popcorn

As director

Year Title Role Venue / Co.
Road Director Tamarama Rock Surfers
Diary of a Madman Director Tamarama Rock Surfers

References

  1. ^ a b Schembri, Jim (15 October 1997), "Three in the Picture For Film Awards", The Age
  2. ^ Barber, Lynden (12 February 2001), "Chopper saga cleans up", The Australian
  3. ^ Atkins, Alice (27 October 2001), "Film award focuses on some of us – AFI awards", The West Australian
  4. ^ a b c Caccetta, Wendy (5 August 1999), "Good Roles Can Be Murder", The West Australian
  5. ^ McNary, Dave (2 February 2011), "SXSW unveils complete pic lineup; Features slate consists of 130 films", Daily Variety
  6. ^ Young, Deborah (1 March 2005), "Falling in the Paradise review", Daily Variety
  7. ^ "THE LOCAL GOSS Hunt for witches", Geelong News, 14 September 2005
  8. ^ Brown, Pam (2 May 1997), "Grim View of Mateship", The West Australian.
  9. ^ Byrne, Fiona (7 October 2007), "Italian stallion ready for race", Sunday Herald Sun
  10. ^ "Previews – Wednesday August 2", Daily Telegraph, 20 August 2008