Richard Seymour Cawthorne (born 3 December 1976) is an Australian actor of theatre, film and television.
Career
Cawthorne has appeared in many film and television productions. His credits include ''
Catching Milat
''Catching Milat'' is a two-part Australian television miniseries that screened on the Seven Network, in collaboration with Screen Australia on 17 and 24 May 2015. It is based on the 1998 book ''Sins of the Brother'' by Mark Whittaker and Les K ...
'', ''
Fat Tony & Co
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'', ''
Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms'', ''
The Straits
''The Straits'' is an Australian television drama series for ABC1 filmed in Cairns, the Torres Strait Islands and other Far North Queensland locations.
The series is based on an idea by actor Aaron Fa'aoso and produced by Penny Chapman and He ...
'', ''
East West 101
''East West 101'' was a drama series airing on the SBS network. The series was produced and created by Steven Knapman and Kris Wyld, the team behind other drama series such as '' Wildside'' and ''White Collar Blue''. It ran from 2007–2011, ...
'', ''
Rush'', ''
Noise
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'', ''
Neighbours
''Neighbours'' is an Australian television soap opera, which has aired since 18 March 1985. It was created by television executive Reg Watson. The Seven Network commissioned the show following the success of Watson's earlier soap '' Sons an ...
'', ''
Underbelly: Squizzy'', ''
Wolf Creek'' and ''
Killing Time'', for which he won the 2012 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (
AACTA).
2012 AACTA Awards Nominees and Winners Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Television Drama. In 2015, Richard was appointed Ambassador to the
National Theatre, Melbourne, National Theatre in Melbourne.
Personal life
Cawthorne was born in Hong Kong in 1976, the youngest of two. His mother, Zelda,
The Age
''The Age'' is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854. Owned and published by Nine Entertainment, ''The Age'' primarily serves Victoria (Australia), Victoria, but copies also sell in Tasmania, the Austral ...
9 November 201
Pakula kills time watching a crook
by Suzanne Carbone was a journalist for the
South China Morning Post
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, and his father, Russell,
IMDb
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br>Biography
/ref> was a Marketing Executive for the Hong Kong-based film company, Golden Harvest Studios.
Cawthorne is a first cousin of Australian Labor Minister Martin Pakula
Martin Philip Pakula (born 7 January 1969) is a former Australian politician. He has been a Labor Party member of the Parliament of Victoria since 2006: in the Legislative Council for Western Metropolitan Region from 2006 to 2010, and then in ...
.
Filmography
Film
Television
Awards and nominations
References
External links
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1976 births
AACTA Award winners
Australian male film actors
Australian male television actors
Hong Kong people
Australian Jews
Jewish Australian male actors
Living people