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Richard Pyros
Richard Pyros (born 7 April 1987) is a British-Australian actor, who first achieved fame in the hit Australian Channel Seven TV show, ''Big Bite'' which was nominated for two AFI Awards. Whilst still studying at drama school, Pyros was selected to create an array of characters including the memorably disheveled newsreader, 'Tee Pee Moses', and for his impersonation of personalities such as Rob Sitch, Michael Caton, Harry Potter and Detective Lennie Briscoe from '' Law & Order''. Early life Pyros was born in Liverpool, England, where he attended Dovedale Junior School and sang at Liverpool Cathedral as a chorister. After moving to Australia at age eleven, he attended Trinity Grammar School (Victoria), then the University of Melbourne where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Criminology) and Bachelor of Music. He then studied acting at Victorian College of the Arts Drama School under Lindy Davies. He was awarded The Irene Mitchell Award for Acting, VCA Drama School. Care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seven Network
The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air Television broadcasting in Australia, television network. It is owned by Seven West Media, Seven West Media Limited, and is one of five main free-to-air television networks in Australia. The network's headquarters are located in Sydney. As of 2014, it is the second-largest network in the country in terms of population reach. The Seven Network shows various nonfiction shows—such as news broadcasts (''Seven News'') and sports programing—as well as fiction shows. In 2011, the network won all 40 out of 40 weeks of the ratings season for total viewers, being the first to achieve this since the introduction of the OzTAM ratings system in 2001. As of 2022, the Seven Network is the highest-rated television network in Australia, ahead of the Nine Network, ABC TV (Australian TV channel), ABC TV, Network 10 and SBS (Australian TV channel), SBS. Headquarters Seven's admin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mel Gibson
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson (born January 3, 1956) is an American actor, film director, and producer. He is best known for his action hero roles, particularly his breakout role as Max Rockatansky in the first three films of the post-apocalyptic action series ''Mad Max'' and as Martin Riggs in the buddy cop action-comedy film series ''Lethal Weapon''. Born in Peekskill, New York, Gibson moved with his parents to Sydney, Australia, when he was 12 years old. He studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, where he starred opposite Judy Davis in a production of ''Romeo and Juliet''. During the 1980s, he founded Icon Entertainment, a production company, which independent film director Atom Egoyan has called "an alternative to the studio system". Director Peter Weir cast him as one of the leads in the World War I drama ''Gallipoli'' (1981), which earned Gibson a Best Actor Award from the Australian Film Institute,The Australian Film InstitutPast Winners as well as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Stollery
Christopher Stollery (born 12 August 1965) is an Australian television actor. He graduated from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1987. He is known for his role on '' State Coroner'' as Sgt. Dermot McLeod. He has had a leading role on ''The Flying Doctors'' and a recurring role role on ''Sea Patrol''. He has also had roles on and ''A Country Practice'', '' All Saints'', ''White Collar Blue'' and '' Water Rats''. He played the role of Lieutenant Nick Homer in the film A Divided Heart (2005). Stollery has a lengthy stage career including productions of ''Hamlet'' where he played Hamlet, ''Romeo and Juliet'' where The Sunday Age's Ken Healy stated "most outstanding are Christopher Stollery as the swaggering Capulet thug, Tybalt". and ''Macbeth ''Macbeth'' (, full title ''The Tragedie of Macbeth'') is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Australian Newspaper
''The Australian'', with its Saturday edition, ''The Weekend Australian'', is a broadsheet newspaper published by News Corp Australia since 14 July 1964.Bruns, Axel. "3.1. The active audience: Transforming journalism from gatekeeping to gatewatching." (2008). "''The Australian'' has long positioned itself as a loyal supporter of the incumbent government of Prime Minister John Howard, and is widely regarded as generally favouring the conservative side of politics." As the only Australian daily newspaper distributed nationally, its readership of both print and online editions was 2,394,000. Its editorial line has been self-described over time as centre-right. Parent companies ''The Australian'' is published by News Corp Australia, an asset of News Corp, which also owns the sole daily newspapers in Brisbane, Adelaide, Hobart, and Darwin, and the most circulated metropolitan daily newspapers in Sydney and Melbourne. News Corp's Chairman and Founder is Rupert Murdoch. ''The Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Croggon
Alison Croggon (born 1962) is a contemporary Australian poet, playwright, fantasy novelist, and librettist. Life and career Born in the Transvaal, South Africa, Alison Croggon's family moved to England before settling in Australia, first in Ballarat then Melbourne. She has worked as a journalist for the ''Sydney Morning Herald''. Her first volume of poetry, ''This is the Stone'', won the Anne Elder Award The Anne Elder Trust Fund Award for poetry was administered by the Victorian branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers from its establishment in 1976 until 2017. From 2018 the award has been administered by Australian Poetry. It is awarded ann ... and the Mary Gilmore Prize. Her novella ''Navigatio'' was highly commended in the 1995 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award. Four novels of the fantasy genre series ''Pellinor'' have been published. She also founded and edits the online writing magazine ''Masthead'' and writes theatre criticism. Croggon has also written libretti f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melbourne International Film Festival
The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is an annual film festival held over three weeks in Melbourne, Australia. It was founded in 1952 and is one of the oldest film festivals in the world following the founding of the Venice Film Festival in 1932, Cannes Film Festival in 1939 and Berlin Film Festival in 1951. Originally launched at Olinda outside Melbourne in 1952 as the Olinda Film Festival, in 1953, the event was renamed the Melbourne Film Festival. It held this title over many decades before transforming in the Melbourne International Film Festival. MIFF is one of Melbourne's four major film festivals, in addition to the Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF), Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF) and Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF). Erwin Rado (1914 - 1988) was the Melbourne Film Festival's iconic director appointed in 1956. The Australian Dictionary of Biography notes Mr Rado was the Festival's first paid director and also shaped its character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oscar Redding
Oscar Redding (born c. 1974) is an Australian actor, screenwriter and director. Biography Portrayed Alexander Pearce in ''Van Diemen's Land'' (2009). He also co-wrote the film with director Jonathan auf der Heide. Redding directed the Australian film '' The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark'' ( 2007), which he also adapted from the stage version that he directed. A modern version of Shakespeare's play. It was screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival in early August 2007. Television credits include, but are not limited to, ''The Secret Life of Us'', ''SeaChange'', '' Stingers'', ''Last Man Standing'', ''Blue Heelers'', '' Neighbours'', ''Ponderosa,'' ''Backlands,'' ''Top of the Lake'' and ''Puberty Blues''. Personal life Oscar Redding lives in Melbourne. See also *Hamlet on screen Over fifty films of William Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'' have been made since 1900. Seven post-war ''Hamlet'' films have had a theatrical release: Laurence Olivier's ''Hamlet'' of 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prince Hamlet
A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. The female equivalent is a princess. The English word derives, via the French word ''prince'', from the Latin noun , from (first) and (head), meaning "the first, foremost, the chief, most distinguished, noble ruler, prince". Historical background The Latin word (older Latin *prīsmo-kaps, literally "the one who takes the first lace/position), became the usual title of the informal leader of the Roman senate some centuries before the transition to empire, the ''princeps senatus''. Emperor Augustus established the formal position of monarch on the basis of principate, not dominion. He also tasked his grandsons as summer rulers of the city when most of the government were on holiday in the country or attending religious rituals, and, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venice International Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy. It is the world's oldest film festival and one of the "Big Six" International film festivals worldwide, which include the Big Three European Film Festivals, alongside the Toronto Film Festival in Canada the Sundance Film Festival in the United States and the Melbourne International Film Festival in Australia. The Festivals are internationally acclaimed for giving creators the artistic freedom to express themselves through film. In 1951, FIAPF formally accredited the festival. Founded by the National Fascist Party in Venice in August 1932, the festival is part of the Venice Biennale, one of the world's oldest exhibitions of art, created by the Venice City Council on 19 April 1893. The range of work at the Venice Bienn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Griffiths
Rachel Anne Griffiths (born in 1968) is an Australian actress. Raised primarily in Melbourne, she began her acting career appearing on the Australian series ''Secrets'' before being cast in a supporting role in the comedy ''Muriel's Wedding'' (1994), which earned her an AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. In 1997, she was the lead in Nadia Tass's drama '' Amy''. She had a role opposite Julia Roberts in the American romantic comedy ''My Best Friend's Wedding'' (1997), followed by her portrayal of Hilary du Pré in ''Hilary and Jackie'' (1998), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress From 2001 to 2005, Griffiths portrayed masseuse Brenda Chenowith in the HBO series '' Six Feet Under'', for which she earned a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 2002 and two Primetime Emmy Award nominations. She subsequently appeared on television as Sarah Walker Laurent on the ABC drama series '' Brothers & Sisters'' from 2006 to 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Weaving
Hugo Wallace Weaving (born 4 April 1960) is an English actor. Born in Colonial Nigeria to English parents, he has resided in Australia for the entirety of his career. He is the recipient of six AACTA Awards, Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards (AACTA) and has also been recognised as an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia. Weaving landed his first major role as England cricket team, English cricket captain Douglas Jardine on the Australian television series ''Bodyline (miniseries), Bodyline'' (1984). Continuing to act in Australia, he rose to prominence with his appearances in the films Proof (1991 film), ''Proof'' (1991) and ''The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert'' (1994), winning his first AACTA Award for AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Actor in a Leading Role with the former. By the turn of the millennium, Weaving achieved international recognition through appearances in mainstream American productions. His most notable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vince Vaughn
Vincent Anthony Vaughn (born March 28, 1970) is an American actor. Vaughn began acting in the late 1980s, appearing in minor television roles before attaining wider recognition with the 1996 comedy-drama film '' Swingers''. He has appeared in a number of films in the 1990s, including the sports film ''Rudy'' (1993), the sci-fi adventure dinosaur film '' The Lost World: Jurassic Park'' (1997), the drama-thriller '' Return to Paradise'' (1998) and the remake of psychological thriller '' Psycho'' (1998). Other than his dramatic role in '' The Cell'' (2000), and ''Domestic Disturbance'' (2001), in the 2000s he acted primarily in comedies, including '' Old School'' (2003), '' Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story'' (2004), ''Wedding Crashers'' (2005), ''The Break-Up'' (2006), ''Fred Claus'' (2007), and ''Four Christmases'' (2008). He continued his comedic roles in the 2010s with ''The Dilemma'' (2011), '' The Watch'' (2012), and ''The Internship'' (2013). In 2015, he starred as Frank Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
