Tristan Jepson (1978 – 28 October 2004) was an Australian

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graduate and writer. He was educated at Trinity Grammar School and the

University of New South Wales The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the founding members of Group of Eight, a coalition of Australian research-intensive ...

. While still an undergraduate law student, he began to write and perform comedy as director of the University of New South Wales' Law Revue. On graduation in 2003, he joined the cast of the AFI Award nominated sketch comedy TV programme ''

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'', where he was perhaps best known for impersonations of

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in parody sketches of '' The Panel''. Diagnosed with

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in 1998, Jepson suffered bouts during his university years and committed suicide by drug overdose, aged 26. The Tristan Jepson Memorial Foundation, named in his honor, is an organisation which works to foreground issues of mental illness in the law, including law students, graduates, practicing lawyers, and judges. The foundation changed its name to Minds Count in 2018. In 2006 the University of New South Wales inaugurated an annual Tristan Jepson Memorial Lecture.

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''Sydney Morning Herald'' Article About Tristan Jepson

The Tristan Jepson Memorial Fund

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jepson, Tristan 1978 births 2004 deaths People from Sydney Australian male television actors Australian television writers University of New South Wales Law School alumni People educated at Trinity Grammar School (New South Wales) Australian male television writers 20th-century Australian screenwriters