Henry Nixon is an Australian actor.
Nixon was born at
St Margaret's Hospital in the inner-Sydney suburb of
Surry Hills
Surry Hills is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Surry Hills is immediately south-east of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Sydney. Surry Hills is surround ...
. As a child he lived in Elanora Heights, Paddington and Wollstonecraft in Sydney with his father, Gerald Nixon, a Recording Engineer and his mother, Vanessa, a Nurse. After their divorce Nixon relocated (with his mother and step father) from Sydney to the Burra Valley, near Canberra. He was educated in Canberra at AME School, Red Hill Primary, Canberra Grammar School and then
Narrabundah College
Narrabundah College is a government college that teaches the last two years of secondary education in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). It was the first school in Australia to offer the International Baccalaureate (IB), starting the progr ...
, where he studied drama.
He graduated from the
Australian National University
The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies an ...
with an Arts degree, majoring in anthropology, Sociology and English, and was going to continue in the world of Academia but opted instead to pursue an Acting career. He auditioned for three Drama Schools: WAAPA, VCA and NIDA and was accepted into all three but decided to attend the
National Institute of Dramatic Art
The National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) is an Australian educational institution for the performing arts is based in Sydney, New South Wales. Founded in 1958, many of Australia's leading actors and directors trained at NIDA, including Cat ...
(NIDA) in Sydney.
Since graduating from NIDA in 2000 Nixon has worked extensively in film, television and theatre.
In 2002 he played the character Chris King in the popular
Channel 5 TV serial ''
Don't Blame Me'' (or ''Don't Blame the Koalas''). He is known for his work as
Sterlo McCormack on ''
All Saints'', an Australian hospital drama. His film work includes Matthew Saville's ''NOISE'' (2007), Cate Shortland's ''Somersault'' (2004), ''Triangle'' (2009) and Julia Leigh's ''Sleeping Beauty'' (2011).
Nixon was flown from Sydney to Los Angeles in 2007 to audition personally for
Tom Hanks
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks (born July 9, 1956) is an American actor and filmmaker. Known for both his comedic and dramatic roles, he is one of the most popular and recognizable film stars worldwide, and is regarded as an American cultural icon. Ha ...
and
Steven Spielberg for the role of Leckie in the HBO/Playtone/DreamWorks Co production of ''
The Pacific''. The role eventually went to
James Badge Dale
James Badge Dale (born May 1, 1978) is an American actor. He is known for playing Chase Edmunds in '' 24'', Robert Leckie in '' The Pacific'', State Trooper Barrigan in Martin Scorsese's ''The Departed'', Luke Lewenden in '' The Grey'', Eric Sa ...
and Nixon ended up portraying 2nd LT Hugh Corrigan.
Nixon played the role of Snr Constable Fergus Mcfadden in the mini-series ''
The Kettering Incident'' in 2016
for which he received the coveted Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Actor at the
2017 Logie Awards.
In addition to his work in front of the camera Nixon is also a respected
voice over artist
Voice acting is the art of performing voice-overs to present a character or provide information to an audience. Performers are called voice actors/actresses, voice artists, dubbing artists, voice talent, voice-over artists, or voice-over talent ...
, having lent his voice to many major campaigns including
Mitsubishi,
McDonald's
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,
Nissan, IGA, and NIB.
Nixon divides his time between Sydney, Australia and Los Angeles, California. He is a keen skipper and outdoor enthusiast.
Filmography
* ''
The Lost World'' (2002) (or ''Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World'') (Episode: "Tapestry"), as Bartholomew Thorne
* ''
Home and Away'' (2002) (Season 1, Episode 3270), as Steve McLaren
* ''
Don't Blame Me'' (or ''Don't Blame the Koalas'') (2002) as Chris King
* ''
Somersault
A somersault (also ''flip'', ''heli'', and in gymnastics ''salto'') is an acrobatic exercise in which a person's body rotates 360° around a horizontal axis with the feet passing over the head. A somersault can be performed forwards, backwards ...
'' (2004), as Nick
* ''
All Saints'' (2003–2004), as Sterling (Sterlo) McCormack (52 episodes) Season 6 - Season 7
* ''
Safety in Numbers'' (2005), as Nigel
* ''
McLeod's Daughters
''McLeod's Daughters'' is an Australian drama television series created by Posie Graeme-Evans and Caroline Stanton for the Nine Network, which aired from 8 August 2001, to 31 January 2009, lasting eight seasons. It stars Lisa Chappell and Bri ...
'' (2001–2006), as Greg Dawson (6 episodes)
* ''
Happy Feet
''Happy Feet'' is a 2006 computer-animated jukebox musical comedy film directed, produced, and co-written by George Miller. It stars the voices of Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving, and ...
'' (2006) (as live action cast)
* ''
Feeling Lonely?'' (2007), as Drew
* ''
Noise
Noise is unwanted sound considered unpleasant, loud or disruptive to hearing. From a physics standpoint, there is no distinction between noise and desired sound, as both are vibrations through a medium, such as air or water. The difference aris ...
'' (2007), as Craig Finlay
* ''
The Black Balloon'' (2008), as Trevor
* ''
$9.99
''$9.99'' is a 2008 Australian stop-motion adult animated drama film written and directed by Tatia Rosenthal, with the screenplay by Etgar Keret. The film marks the third collaboration between Rosenthal and Keret. It features a voice cast of G ...
'' (2008), as Drazen/beanbag/radio announcer (as voice only)
* ''
Nightwalking'' (2009), as Dad
* ''
Triangle
A triangle is a polygon with three edges and three vertices. It is one of the basic shapes in geometry. A triangle with vertices ''A'', ''B'', and ''C'' is denoted \triangle ABC.
In Euclidean geometry, any three points, when non- colline ...
'' (2009), as Downey
* ''
Squid: The Movie'' (2010), as Alan or
Uncle Fester
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* ''
The Pacific'' (2010), as Lt. Hugh (Ivy League) Corrigan
* ''
Cold Sore
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'' (2010), as Guy
* ''
Scumbus
''Scumbus'' is an Australian comedy film written and produced by Ed Kavalee. The film stars Kavalee, Toby Truslove and Lachy Hulme. It was filmed in Melbourne, Victoria.
Synopsis
Tom is an eager, ambitious policeman who takes his job seriously ...
'' (2011), as Adam
* ''
Sleeping Beauty
''Sleeping Beauty'' (french: La belle au bois dormant, or ''The Beauty in the Sleeping Forest''; german: Dornröschen, or ''Little Briar Rose''), also titled in English as ''The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods'', is a fairy tale about a princess cu ...
'' (2011), as Mark
* ''
Little Monsters'' (2019), as Security Guard Bob
References
External links
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1970s births
Australian male television actors
Australian National University alumni
Living people
Logie Award winners
Male actors from Sydney
National Institute of Dramatic Art alumni