David Wenham Biography (3)
A five-time nominee for Best Actor in a Leading Role at the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards, Wenham won the honor in 1997 for his role in the television drama series Simone De Beauvoir's Babies.
He is best-known (and best-loved) in Australia as Diver Dan, the laconic fisherman in ABC TV's comedy-drama series Seachange, a role which earned Wenham one of his AFI nominations. He was again nominated for an AFI for his menacing portrayal of criminal Brett Sprague in the feature film The Boys - a part he first played on stage in the Griffin Street Theatre Company production. Wenham, who also received a Film Critics' Circle of Australian Best Lead Actor nomination for The Boys, was associate producer on the film.
Wenham's other nominated film credits include the techno-thriller The Bank and the relationships comedy Better Than Sex. He has also appeared in Moulin Rouge, Russian Doll, Idiot Box, A Little Bit of Soul and Cosi, and will be seen in 2002 in Dust and as Faramir in the second and third films in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. He also appeared in the feature film Damien (Director Paul Cox) in the role of Father Damien and has just completed the UK feature Pure under the direction of Gillies McKinnon.
His stage credits include Art (with Tom Conti) and Tartuffe for the Sydney Theatre Company; Hamlet, The Tempest, Cosi and The Headbutt for the Belvoir Street Theatre; and That Eye the Sky for Burning House.
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