Steve Le Marquand (born 26 December 1967) is an Australian-born actor, known both locally and internationally for his film and stage work.

Personal life

Born in

Perth, Western Australia Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

in 1967, his family moved to Sydney when he was quite young. His younger sister is the columnist and media commentator Sarrah Le Marquand. He is married to Australian actress and singer

Pippa Grandison Pippa Jody Grandison (born 12 September 1970) is an Australian actress and singer. She currently lives in Sydney, with her husband Steve Le Marquand and son. Career Pippa Grandison was born in Perth, Western Australia. She made her debut in th ...

and they have a child together, Charlie. He is commonly referred to by his nickname, Slem (his initials). He played cricket for a number of years for many different teams and was also selected for various representative teams. His top score was 116* and best bowling figures of 8/9. Lives in Lake Clifton in rural WA.

Career

Prior to acting, Le Marquand motorcycled his way around Australia, working on various cattle stations, docks, pubs, barges and melon farms. He then studied performing arts at Penrith in Sydney's outer west at the

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(Theatre Nepean) before stumbling across an agent in Penny Williams in 1992. His first job was a TV commercial for Arnott's Ruffles which was banned a day after its release for

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. His second job was on the Australian TV series ''

Police Rescue ''Police Rescue'' is an Australian television series which originally aired on ABC TV between 1989 and 1996. It was produced by ABC and Southern Star Xanadu in association with the BBC. Apart from the 61 episodes, there was a 90-minute pilo ...

'' and since then he has played an assortment of thugs, baddies, larrikins and cops (both good and bad) in a number of TV shows, including ''Les Norton, Australia's Sexiest Tradie, Janet King''; '' Underbelly: Razor'', '' Rake'', '' Laid'', '' All Saints'', ''

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'', '' Crash Palace'', '' Young Lions'', ''

Blue Heelers ''Blue Heelers'' is an Australian police drama series that was produced by Southern Star Group and ran for 12 years on the Seven Network, from 1994 to 2006. Although based around the policing of the town, the series generally depicted the ever ...

'', '' Water Rats'', '' Big Sky'', '' G.P.'', ''

Murder Call ''Murder Call'' is an Australian television series, created by Hal McElroy for the Southern Star Entertainment and broadcast on the Nine Network between 1997 and 2000. The series was inspired by the ''Tessa Vance'' novels by Jennifer Rowe, bot ...

'', ''

Home and Away ''Home and Away'' (often abbreviated as ''H&A'') is an Australian television soap opera. It was created by Alan Bateman and commenced broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. Bateman came up with the concept of the show during a trip ...

'', '' Wildside'', and the

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mini-series ''A Difficult Woman''. He played the lead role of Tony Piccolo in the Movie Extra hit ''Small Time Gangster'' for which he received an ASTRA Award nomination for Most Outstanding Actor. On film he has featured as a crazed colonel in ''Escape and Evasion''; a cheeky cabbie in ''June Again''; a psycho gangster in ''Locusts''; a reclusive cattle station worker in Kriv Stender's '' Red Dog: True Blue''; a down and out ex Rugby League star in Heath Davis' ''Broke''; a sleazy, charismatic cult leader in Nick Matthews' ''One Eyed Girl''; a dodgy drug dealer in Stephan Elliott's ''A Few Best Men''; a battle hardened sergeant in ''Beneath Hill 60'' (which earned him a Film Critics Circle of Australia Best Supporting Actor nomination 2009); a snarly stockbroker in 2008's surprise hit, ''Men's Group''; a tall thug in Jeremy Sims’ ''

Last Train to Freo ''Last Train to Freo'' is a 2006 Australian film based on Reg Cribb's 2001 play '' The Return'', and directed by Jeremy Sims. Synopsis Two thugs from the Perth suburb of Midland catch the last train to Fremantle. When a young woman, unaware t ...

'' (for which he was nominated for Best Lead Actor at both the Australian Film Institute and Film Critic's Circle Awards); a WWII digger in ''Kokoda''; a larrikin Aussie climber in Martin Campbell's ''

Vertical Limit ''Vertical Limit'' is a 2000 American survival thriller film directed by Martin Campbell, written by Robert King, and starring Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney, and Scott Glenn. The film was released on December 8, 2000, in the United S ...

''; a clumsy, shotty-loving bank robber in Gregor Jordan's ''Two Hands''; a moustachioed cop in David Caesar's ''Mullet''; a weird-arsed beachcomber in ''Lost Things'' and an all-singing-all-dancing sailor in

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’s remake of ''South Pacific''. He won the

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Best Actor Award at

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1996 for (his own) short film ''Cliché'', and was also the lead actor in the Tropfest 2005 hit, ''Bomb''. Le Marquand has been seen on stage in ''Green Park,'' ''Ugly Mugs'', ''Songket'' and '' The Return'' (which was the stage version of ''

'') for Griffin Theatre; ''Gaybies'' for Darlinghurst Theatre; ''Enemy Of The People, Jasper Jones'', ''Death Of A Salesman'', ''Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll'' (also for MTC and QTC), ''Paul, The Spook, Buried Child'' and '' Waiting For Godot'' for Belvoir; ''Holy Day'' for the Sydney Theatre Company, ''Don’s Party'' for the Melbourne Theatre Co and STC; and was a member of the STC's Actors' Company where he appeared in ''Tales From The Vienna Woods; The Serpents Teeth; Gallipoli and The War Of The Roses'' (alongside

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) with the Company. Le Marquand (together with Simon Bedak and Michael Neaylon) co-wrote, produced, directed and starred in a theatre production of the novel ''

He Died with a Felafel in His Hand ''He Died with a Felafel in His Hand'' is a purportedly non-fiction autobiographical novel by Australian author John Birmingham about his experiences as a share housing tenant, first published in 1994 by The Yellow Press (). The story consists ...

'', which had its humble beginnings at Rozelle's Bridge Hotel in Sydney during 1995 before running for several years in Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Lismore, Hobart, Brisbane, Edinburgh, Toronto, New York, Wagga Wagga and Hong Kong. The stage adaptation's 'rough as guts' humour saw it become the longest running play in Australian history. In 2019, during The Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival in

Winton, Queensland Winton is a town and Suburbs and localities (Australia), locality in the Shire of Winton in Central West Queensland, Australia. It is northwest of Longreach, Queensland, Longreach. The main industries of the area are sheep and cattle raising. Th ...

, Le Marquand was honoured with a star on Winton's Walk of Fame.

External links

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Steve Le Marquand on TV.com

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Le Marquand, Steve Australian male film actors Australian male stage actors Australian male television actors Living people Male actors from Perth, Western Australia Male actors from Sydney 1967 births Western Sydney University alumni 20th-century Australian male actors 21st-century Australian male actors People educated at Oakhill College