John Noble

John Noble is an Australian stage, film and television actor, as well as a theater director of more than 80 plays. Early in his career, Noble was the Artistic Director of the Stage Company of South Australia for ten years, during which he was involved in South Australia's cultural explosion. He performed with all of the state's major arts companies, and produced over 70 new Australian plays.

As an actor, he is best known for his role as Denethor in The Lord of the Rings, for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble Cast and a Broadcast Film Critics Association USA Award for Best Ensemble Cast. Noble's television guest roles include 24, Journeyman, The Unit, Lost Treasure of Fiji, Home and Away, Stargate SG-1, The Mystery of Natalie Wood, Stingers, The Lost World Series III, Superfire, The Outsider, The Bill, Big Sky, Police Rescue, Water Rats, Timetrax, Above the Law, The Young Lions and Tales of the South Pacific. For the last six-and-a-half years, he has had a semi-regular role on All Saints as the neurosurgeon Dr. John Madsen. Noble's additional credits include the mini-series Hills End and the films The Dreaming, Nostradamus Kid, A Sting in the Tail, Call Me Mr. Brown, Airtight, The Monkeys Mask and A Virtual Nightmare, One Night with the King and Running Scared.

Noble lives in Sydney, Australia.

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John Noble Facts

Occupation	Actor
Birthday	August 20, 1948 (61)
Sign	Leo
Birthplace	Port Pirie, Australia

Selected Filmography

Fringe: The Complete First Season

One Night With the King

Of Mice & Men

Poltergeist II/Poltergeist III

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