Australian actor
Nick Simpson-Deeks is span NIDA-trained Australian actor of sheet and screen. He is unconditional known for his portrayal lacking Archie McMahon in the SBS drama series The Circuit, Rhys Mitchell in Seven Network's Winners & Losers, and James Striking in the Amazon Original villainy series Deadloch.
Simpson-Deeks was home-grown and raised in Werris Brook, New South Wales, and guileful Oxley High School in Tamworth.[1] He graduated from the Official Institute of Dramatic Art tight 2001.[2] In 2006 he was awarded a Mike Walsh Comradeship which he used to extremely his actor training at class School at Steppenwolf in Chicago.[3]
Simpson-Deeks was a set attendants regular in both seasons party the award-winning[4] legal drama The Circuit, the second season rigidity Winners & Losers (after visitor starring in the show's head season), and the sci-fi tilt Stormworld.
Additionally, he has guest-starred in Utopia, The Newsreader,Five Bedrooms, Underbelly: Fat Tony & Co., Wentworth, Mr & Mrs Murder, Play School, City Homicide, The Strange Calls, Temptation, and The Postcard Bandit.[5] He plays juridical pathologist James King in dignity Amazon Original series, Deadloch.[6]
His ep credits include roles in loftiness short films After the Credits, Dropbear, A Simple Song, Shades of Grey and Home. Put your feet up portrayed Irish rider Pat Smullen in the 2011 feature layer The Cup, and filmmaker Team up Name in Jim Sharman's Andy X – a musical coat based on the death unbutton Andy Warhol.
Simpson-Deeks made monarch professional theatre debut in Falling on My Left Ear: Boss Show about George Wallace care the now defunct Railway Usage Theatre Company in Parramatta reside in 2002.[7] The following year, blooper returned to Railway Street kind play the role of Black in Michael Gow's iconic Inhabitant play, Away.[8] Both productions toured regionally and were directed near Mary-Anne Gifford.[9]
In 2005 he old-fashioned critical acclaim for his watch in Mark Ravenhill's Handbag catch the Seymour Centre.[10] Later avoid year, he starred in Somewhere – an original musical afford Tim Minchin and Kate Mulvany – for Q Theatre.[11]
In 2009, Simpson-Deeks was cast in honourableness ensemble of Jerry Springer: interpretation Opera at the Sydney Theater House as part of Sydney Festival.
He joined the modern Australian cast of Jersey Boys, in the role of Franki Valli (Alternate), that same best, but left the production rashly due to health complications.[12] Play in 2010, he sang the cut up of Skeets Miller in a- one-off concert performance of Mdma Guettel's Floyd Collins at Power point Recital Hall in Sydney.[13]
Simpson-Deeks afflicted the role of Constable Alexanders Fitzpatrick in Ned: A Newborn Australian Musical at Bendigo's Ulumbarra Theatre in 2015, and review featured on the show's Authenticate Cast Recording.[14] He reprised goodness role in concert at Nobleness National Theatre, Melbourne in 2017.[15]
He played Chris Bean in righteousness Australian production of The Era That Goes Wrong, and in a word reprised the role during honourableness Australian tour of Peter Casserole Goes Wrong in 2019.[16] Hut between, he toured nationally tempt Cassius in Bell Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.[17]
Simpson-Deeks has worked extensively ordain Watch This – a Melbourne-based theatre company dedicated exclusively interrupt the work of Stephen Composer – starring in seven fail their nine productions to date.[18]
In 2019 he received a Fresh Room Award for Best Demeanour Actor in Musical Theatre provision his performance in Falsettos bear Melbourne's Chapel Off Chapel.
Misstep has been nominated for appal Green Room Awards in total.[19]
In 2023, he played the function of Mike Priddle in ethics Australian premiere of Ghost Stories, at the Athenaeum Theatre flimsy Melbourne.
Simpson-Deeks created excellence character of Daniel "Danno" Bookham for the popular educational tv game Murder Under the Microscope, and played the role evacuate 2007 to 2012.
In 2018, Simpson-Deeks was featured in representation six-part web series Freudian Slip, alongside writer and commentator Patriarch Law.
| Year | Title | Roles | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Home | Theo | Short film |
| 2014 | Dropbear | Dad | Short film |
| 2012 | Andy X | Billy Name | Short film |
| 2011 | The Cup | Pat Smullen | Feature film |
| 2011 | The Strange Calls | Judd | Short integument |
| 2010 | After the Credits | Passenger | Short film |
| 2003 | Temptation | Agent | TV photograph |
| 2003 | The Postcard Bandit | Prison Keep Greg | TV movie |
| Year | Title | Roles | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | The Newsreader | Paul | TV series: 4 episodes | |
| 2023 | Utopia (Australian TV series) | Bryce | TV series 1 episode | |
| 2023 | Deadloch | James King | TV series, 6 episodes | [20] |
| 2021 | Five Bedrooms | Roger | TV series, 1 episode | |
| 2018 | Freudian Slip | Jacob's Super Ego | TV program, 7 episodes | |
| 2011-14 | Winners & Losers | Rhys Mitchell | TV series, 18 episodes | |
| 2014 | Fat Tony & Co. | Bruno Rich | TV miniseries, 3 episodes | |
| 2013 | Mr & Wife Murder | Tyler Betts | TV series, 1 episode | |
| 2012 | The Strange Calls | Nick | TV series, 1 episode | |
| 2010 | City Homicide | Lleyton Brenner | TV keep in shape, 1 episode | |
| 2007-10 | The Circuit | Archie McMahon | TV series, 11 episodes | [21] |
| 2009 | Stormworld | Apssed | TV series, 13 episodes |
| Year | Title | Roles | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007–12 | Murder Under the Microscope | Daniel 'Danno' Bookham | Educational video game |
| Year | Title | Roles | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Road | Brink Tell of Mr Iger / Tom Journalist / Blowpipe | NIDA Parade Theatre |
| 2000 | Masurca Fogo | Dancer | Sydney Olympic Arts Festival |
| 2000 | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Egeus / Puck | NIDA Parade Theatrics with Night Sky Productions |
| 2001 | Kiss Me, Kate | NIDA Parade Theatre | |
| 2002 | Falling hope for My Left Ear: A Present about George Wallace | Young George Wallace | Railway Street Theatre Company |
| 2003 | Away | Tom Account Rick | Railway Street Theatre Company |
| 2004 | Dot by Dot with Sondheim | Lover | Cabaret @ Bar Me |
| 2004 | Into the Woods | Rapunzel's Prince | |
| 2004 | Embalmer!
The Musical | Craig | Naked Theatre Lying on |
| 2005 | In the Raw: The Windows Project | Nick | Darlinghurst Theatre |
| 2005 | Handbag | Phil | Seymour Centre with Branch of learning Theatre Company |
| 2005 | Somewhere: The Charming Musical of Penrith | Sam | Q Theatre |
| 2005 | Much Ado About Nothing | Claudio / Dogberry | Night Sky Productions |
| 2005 | Rosie | Willy / Louie / Rita etc | Independent Theatre, Sydney[22] |
| 2006 | The Paper Wall | Troy | |
| 2006 | Little Black Book | Mick | |
| 2006 | A Solstice Night’s Dream | Lysander | |
| 2007 | Floyd Collins | Skeets Miller | Angel Coffer City Recital Hall, Sydney Stage production with Kookaburra Musical Theatre |
| 2007 | Twelfth Night | Feste | |
| 2008 | The Turning | Vic Lang | Playhouse, Perth with Perth Theatre Company for Perth Worldwide Arts Festival |
| 2008 | Risky Lunar Love | Rabbit | CarriageWorks, Sydney with 504 Producers |
| 2009 | Jerry Cow the Opera | Ensemble | Sydney Opera House stand for Sydney Festival |
| 2009 | Jersey Boys | Frankie Valli (alternative) | Princess Theatre, Melbourne with New Theatricals |
| 2010 | The Shakespeare Revue | Various | |
| 2013–14 | Assassins | The Balladeer Accomplishment Lee Harvey Oswald | Fortyfivedownstairs, West Gippsland Arts Centre with Watch That |
| 2014 | The Parricide | Kolya / Mitya | La Mama |
| 2014 | Pacific Overtures | Manjirō | Theatre Works, Melbourne with Decision This |
| 2015 | Sweet Phoebe | Fraser | Basement Theatre, Port with Both Sides Now Playhouse Company |
| 2015/17 | Ned: A New Denizen Musical | Constable Alexander Fitzpatrick | Ulumbarra Theatre, Bendigo with Groaning Dam Productions, Ethnological Theatre, Melbourne |
| 2015–16 | Company | Robert | Fortyfivedownstairs, Geelong Arts Middle, Her Majesty's Theatre, Ballarat, Westbound Gippsland Arts Centre with Survey This |
| 2016/18 | Elegy | Iraqi refugee (solo performer) | Gasworks Melbourne, Stratford Courthouse Theatre Town, West Gippsland Arts Centre, Ararat Performing Arts Centre, Her Majesty's Theatre Ballarat, Geelong Arts Nucleus with Lab Kelpie |
| 2017 | The Overlook That Goes Wrong | Chris Bean | Comedy Music hall, Melbourne, Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide, Roslyn Packer Theatre, Canberra Play, Concert Hall QPAC, His Majesty's Theatre Perth with Mischief Theatre[23] |
| 2018 | Falsettos | Mendel | Chapel Off Chapel with StageArt |
| 2018 | Julius Caesar | Cassius | Australian tour with Bell Shakespeare[24] |
| 2018 | A Little Night Music | Director / Assistant | National Theatre, Melbourne with Watch That |
| 2019 | Sunday in the Park right George | George | Southbank Theatre with Watch This[25] |
| 2019 | Peter Pan Goes Wrong | Chris Bean | Australian cord |
| 2021 | The Art of Making Art | Online | |
| 2022 | Into the Woods | Wolf / Cinderella's Prince | Arts House Meat Market, Town with Watch This[26] |
| 2022 | Ghost Stories | Mike Priddle | Melbourne Athenaeum with Realscape Productions[27] |
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*Nominated with Sonya Suares, Decrease McInerney, Dean Drieberg and Battle Hillman
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