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Squinters
''Squinters'' is an Australian television comedy series which first screened on the ABC on Wednesday 7 February 2018. All six episodes were also loaded on the ABC's iView catch up service on the same date. A second series went to air in 2019. The first six-part series was produced by Jungle Entertainment and created by Trent O'Donnell and Adam Zwar. It is directed by O'Donnell along with Kate McCartney, Amanda Brotchie, Christiaan Van Vuuren and Cate Stewart. It was written by Zwar with Lally Katz, Sarah Scheller, Adele Vuko, Leon Ford and Ben Crisp. Plot ''Squinters'' follows commuters in peak hour transit as they drive to work. The title ''Squinters'', refers to the fact that the commuters are facing the sun as they head east from Sydney's western suburbs in the mornings, and then also face into the sun in the afternoons on the way back to the western suburbs. Cast * Sam Simmons as Lukas * Tim Minchin as Paul (Series 1) * Andrea Demetriades as Romi * Mandy McElhinney as Brid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Matafeo
Rose Catherine Lettitia Matafeo (; born 25 February 1992) is a New Zealand comedian, actress, and TV presenter. She was a writer and performer on the New Zealand late-night comedy sketch show ''Funny Girls''. In 2018, she won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for her show ''Horndog''. Early life Matafeo grew up in Ponsonby, Auckland, and attended Auckland Girls' Grammar School, where she was head girl. She has two older brothers. Her father is Samoan and her mother is of Scottish and Croatian heritage. Her parents are Rastas and Matafeo has described her upbringing as "quite relaxed". At the age of 15, Matafeo started doing stand-up comedy through the platform of the "Class Comedians" programme put on by the New Zealand Comedy Trust, and went on to win the "Nailed It on the Night" award at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival in 2007. She's been a regular at the festival since. Career Since graduating from the "Class Comedian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Peacocke
Stephen Peacocke (born 30 October 1981) is an Australian actor. Peacocke appeared in various theatre productions, before playing minor roles in television dramas and films, including ''Suburban Mayhem'' and '' All Saints''. From 2011 until 2016, Peacocke portrayed Darryl Braxton on the television soap opera ''Home and Away''. The role saw Peacocke win the Logie Award for Most Popular Actor twice. Following his departure from ''Home and Away'', Peacocke starred as Detective Josh Levine in the Australia drama series '' Wanted'', and he made appearances in the feature films '' Whiskey Tango Foxtrot'' and ''Me Before You''. As of 2021, he stars in the Network Ten drama series ''Five Bedrooms'' and Seven Network's '' RFDS: Royal Flying Doctor Service''. Early life Peacocke was born in Dubbo, New South Wales to Gareth Peacocke, a former accountant, and his wife Sylvia. He has a brother, who encouraged him to pursue acting. Peacocke attended schools in South Dubbo before finishing his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Zwar
Adam Zwar (born 13 January 1972) is an Australian actor, voice artist, and writer. He is best known for co-creating the Australian comedy series '' Squinters'', '' Lowdown'', '' Wilfred'' and creating the critically acclaimed Channel 10 comedy '' Mr. Black'' as well as the popular factual series '' Agony Aunts'', '' Agony Uncles'', '' The Agony of Life'', '' The Agony of Modern Manners'' and ''Agony''. Zwar also presented and produced seminal cricket documentaries ''Underarm: The Ball That Changed Cricket'' and ''Bodyline: The Ultimate Test'' which took a forensic look at the infamous 1932-33 Ashes series between Australia and England. Early life Zwar was born on 13 January 1972 in Cairns, Queensland where he was subsequently raised. His parents bought the family home from actor Leo McKern. Zwar is the son of author Desmond Zwar, who wrote the best-selling book ''The Loneliest Man in the World'' about Rudolf Hess. Zwar's mother Delphine was a longtime writer for the '' House an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justin Rosniak
Justin Rosniak (born 11 May 1977) is an Australian television and film actor, best known for his appearances in the television series ''Packed to the Rafters'', ''Police Rescue'', '' Squinters'' and ''Mr Inbetween''. Career Rosniak appeared as Tony in 1997's '' Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord'', and in the same year voiced the title role in the animated television series ''The Adventures of Sam''. He has appeared in ''Home and Away'' three times, in 1988 as McPhee, the grandson of regular character's Neville and Floss McPhee, in 1995 as Joseph Lynch, and in 2018 as Ross Nixon. In 2010, Rosniak was cast in a supporting role in '' Animal Kingdom'' and in 2011 was in '' Underbelly: Razor'', playing the part of notorious Australian career criminal, Squizzy Taylor. In 2018, Rosniak was one of the regular cast members in the comedy series '' Squinters''. Rosniak appears in the 2019 Australian crime-thriller film ''Locusts Locusts (derived from the Vulgar Latin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda Brotchie
Amanda Brotchie, born in Melbourne, Victoria), is an Australian director known for '' Picnic at Hanging Rock'' (2018), '' Mr Black'' (2019), '' Girlboss'' (2017), and '' Lowdown'' (2010-2012). She is also a writer, producer and linguist. Career Brotchie co-created the multi-award winning series '' Lowdown'' (ABC, BBC 4), through the company High Wire Films, which she founded with producer, Nicole Minchin, and her husband, writer, producer and actor, Adam Zwar. Other TV shows Brotchie has directed include '' Picnic at Hanging Rock'' (Showcase, Amazon), '' Girlboss'' (Netflix), '' A Place to Call Home'' (Showcase, Acorn TV), ''The Letdown'' Series 2 ( ABC, Netflix), '' Squinters'' ( ABC), and '' Mr Black'' (Network 10), created by Adam Zwar, which she wrote on and set up. Theatre credits include ''The Inner Sanctum'', which she directed, and ''Headlock'', which she wrote and directed, and which was nominated for a Green Room Award for Writing.. Brotchie directed the multi-awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christiaan Van Vuuren
Christiaan Van Vuuren (born 1982), known as The Fully Sick Rapper in his first video series, is an actor, writer, director and video blogging, video blogger from Sydney, Australia. He often collaborates with his brother, Connor Van Vuuren, and their YouTube channel is called Van Vuuren Bros. Early life Van Vuuren was born in 1982 at Sutherland Hospital in Caringbah and grew up in Cronulla. His parents met in London, his father a South African and his mother a Kiwi people, Kiwi. Career While Van Vuuren was placed in quarantine in a Sydney hospital for tuberculosis for six months in 2010, he gained fame via videos posted under the name The Fully Sick Rapper. He collaborated with his brother Connor Van Vuuren and Nicholas Boshier on the web series ''Bondi Hipsters''. In 2014 and 2016, along with Connor, he co-wrote, co-directed and starred with Boshier in the ABC Television (Australian TV network) , ABC Television series ''Soul Mates (TV series), Soul Mates''. He has featured ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steen Raskopoulos
Steen Raskopoulos (born 3 July 1987) is an Australian comedian, actor and improviser. He is best known for his live character solo sketch shows, playing Dr. Evan in '' The Duchess'' (Netflix), Pete Lewis in '' Feel Good'' (Netflix), John Mahogany in BBC Three's '' Top Coppers'', ''Whose Line Is It Anyway? Australia'' and as one half of the award-winning improvisation duo The Bear Pack. Early life and education Raskopoulos was born in Sydney. His father is FFA Hall of Fame footballer Peter Raskopoulos and his sister is comedian and singer Jordan Raskopoulos. He studied at the University of Sydney where he first started improvising and performed Theatresports at Manning Bar. He is the co-founder of Improv Theatre Sydney. Live comedy career Raskopoulos debuted his first solo sketch show ''Bruce springSTEEN LIVE IN CONCERT'' at the 2013 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. He was nominated for Best Newcomer, and won the same award at the Sydney Comedy Festival later that yea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miranda Tapsell
Miranda Tapsell (born 11 December 1987) is an Aboriginal Australian actress of both stage and screen, best known for her role as Cynthia in the Wayne Blair film '' The Sapphires'' and her 2015 performance as Martha Tennant in the Nine Network drama series '' Love Child''. In 2016, she portrayed Fatima in the Stan series '' Wolf Creek''. Early life Tapsell was born in Darwin, Northern Territory, on 11 December 1987 to Tony and Barbara Tapsell. When she was five the family moved to Jabiru in West Arnhem Land, where she grew up around Kakadu National Park. In 2004, when she was 16, Tapsell won the Bell Shakespeare Company regional performance scholarship. After finishing school she moved to Sydney to study at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) from where she graduated in 2008. Career Tapsell has been active both on stage and screen, starting with her 2008 performance in Dallas Winmar's play ''Yibiyung'' at the Belvoir Theatre, where she had the title role. In June 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damon Herriman
Damon Herriman is an Australian actor. He is known for his film and television work in Australia and the United States. He is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Dewey Crowe in ''Justified (TV series), Justified''. In 2019, he portrayed the cult leader and criminal Charles Manson in both the Netflix series ''Mindhunter (TV series), Mindhunter'' and in the Quentin Tarantino film ''Once Upon a Time in Hollywood''. Early life Damon Herriman was born in Adelaide, South Australia. He began acting in local television commercials at the age of eight, but it was not until he was cast as Frank Errol in ''The Sullivans'' two years later that his career began to take off. He continued to work solidly as a child actor, with a return to ''The Sullivans'' a year later, as well as the Australian series ''The Patchwork Hero'', ''Sara Dane'', ''For the Term of His Natural Life'' and ''Taurus Rising.'' He received three Logie Award nominations for his performance in ''The Sullivans''. Career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Blair (director)
Wayne Blair (born 28 November 1971) is an Australian writer, actor and director. He was on both sides of the camera in ''Redfern Now''. He is also the director of the feature film '' The Sapphires''. Early life Blair was born in Taree, New South Wales, to Julie and Bob Blair and has two older sisters, Janet and Mandy. He is an Aboriginal Australian and he describes himself as a Batjala, Mununjali, Wakkawakka man. As Blair's father was a soldier the family moved around. While Blair was still young, his father was posted to Woodside in South Australia. When he was a teenager, Blair's family were sent to Rockhampton. In Rockhampton he excelled at cricket and rugby, then later became interested in acting and dancing at school. Blair had a job as a tour guide at Rockhampton's Dreamtime Cultural Centre, where he was also one of the dancers. He went on to do a marketing degree at Central Queensland University, though his elective subjects included comic drama and Australian drama. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trent O'Donnell
Trent O'Donnell (born 12 February 1976) is an Australian director, producer and screenwriter. Life and career O'Donnell is a television director and co-owner of the production company Jungle (company), Jungle. He wrote and directed the award-winning comedy series ''Review with Myles Barlow'' – an Australian television satire, satirical comedy series broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) television station ABC1. It has won several Australian Film Institute Awards, AFI Awards for Best Comedy. O'Donnell also directed the acclaimed ''The Chasers War on Everything'' and the TV series ''Laid (TV series), Laid'' which all aired on ABC1. In 2012 he wrote, produced and directed ''A Moody Christmas'', a six-part drama series for the ABC TV. In 2013 he was a writer and director for ''The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting'', a sketch comedy show for the ABC TV. O'Donnell has also directed several short films, including ''Tiny Little Pieces'', which was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susie Youssef
Susan Kathryn Youssef (born 1984) is a writer and actor who works in television, on radio and stage in Australia and the United Kingdom. Youssef performed at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Sydney Comedy Festival, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and Homebake. Youssef is best known for her appearances in the television series '' The Project'', ''Whose Line Is It Anyway? Australia'', '' How Not to Behave'', ''No Activity'' and ''Rosehaven''. She has twice used her family name in the title of her stand-up comedy shows. Career Youssef began comedy writing in high school where she wrote her own plays. She began studying education, to become a teacher. A friend took her to an improvisational comedy show at Newtown's Enmore Theatre, which sparked a more serious interest in comedy. She quit college and Youssef attended iO Chicago where she studied improvisational performance and comedy. Youssef began her comedy career as a writer for ''The Ronnie Johns Half Hour'' in 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |