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Brendan Cowell is a Actor, Writer and Co-Producer Australien born on 16 august 1976
Brendan Cowell (born 16 August 1976) is an Australian actor, screenwriter, comedian and director. Cowell was born in Sydney. He stumbled upon acting by accident while waiting for his sister to come out of a rehearsal; he was then cast in a commercial at age 8. He went to Charles Sturt University, in Bathurst, to complete a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre/Media, originally considering journalism as a career option.
Cowell won the Patrick White Playwrights' Award for his third play Bed along with a collection of other awards. His play Ruben Guthrie showed at the Belvoir St Theatre in 2009 to sell-out houses. It has a new production at La Boite Theatre in 2011, starring Gyton Grantley and directed by David Berthold. His most famous acting role is playing the enigmatic Tom on Australian cable TV's Love My Way, for which he also wrote several episodes, and playing Todd for the first two seasons on Life Support on SBS TV, for which he also wrote sketches.
His most recent foray into film have included roles in the 2007 crime drama Noise, World War 1 war film Beneath Hill 60 and romantic comedy I Love You Too. He won some acclaim for his portrayal of the title role in Bell Shakespeare's 2008 Production of Hamlet and acted in Sydney Theatre Company's production of True West, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, in 2010. Brendan lives in Newtown, New South Wales Sydney and is a committed supporter of the Cronulla Sharks rugby league team.
He recently published his first novel: How it Feels.
Brendan was criticised by media and political figures for perceived political opportunism for participating in a video condemning Prime Minister Tony Abbott for not doing enough to secure the lives of convicted drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran in the days before their execution. In the video Brendan made personal attacks on the Prime Minister in a close up to camera, “Tony, if you had any courage and compassion you'd go to Indonesia and bring these boys home. Show some balls." He later apologised on Twitter and closed his Twitter account.
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Brendan Cowell
Cowell won the Patrick White Playwrights' Award for his third play Bed along with a collection of other awards. His play Ruben Guthrie showed at the Belvoir St Theatre in 2009 to sell-out houses. It has a new production at La Boite Theatre in 2011, starring Gyton Grantley and directed by David Berthold. His most famous acting role is playing the enigmatic Tom on Australian cable TV's Love My Way, for which he also wrote several episodes, and playing Todd for the first two seasons on Life Support on SBS TV, for which he also wrote sketches.
His most recent foray into film have included roles in the 2007 crime drama Noise, World War 1 war film Beneath Hill 60 and romantic comedy I Love You Too. He won some acclaim for his portrayal of the title role in Bell Shakespeare's 2008 Production of Hamlet and acted in Sydney Theatre Company's production of True West, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, in 2010. Brendan lives in Newtown, New South Wales Sydney and is a committed supporter of the Cronulla Sharks rugby league team.
He recently published his first novel: How it Feels.
Biography
Brendan was born to parents Yvonne and Bruce 'Bruiser' Cowell. He has two older sisters, Belinda and Jacqui (who was part of pop group Girlfriend). Was a self-confessed loner at primary school, which he said was due to his reading poems out at assembly and making up little plays and forcing people to watch them. Dated Rose Byrne for six years until they amicably parted ways in early 2010.Brendan was criticised by media and political figures for perceived political opportunism for participating in a video condemning Prime Minister Tony Abbott for not doing enough to secure the lives of convicted drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran in the days before their execution. In the video Brendan made personal attacks on the Prime Minister in a close up to camera, “Tony, if you had any courage and compassion you'd go to Indonesia and bring these boys home. Show some balls." He later apologised on Twitter and closed his Twitter account.
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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)
Directed by James Cameron
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, Monde imaginaire, Dans l'espace, Sur une planète fictive, Children's films, Films about extraterrestrial life
Actors Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, Stephen Lang, Kate Winslet, CCH Pounder, Sigourney Weaver
Roles Mick Scoresby
Rating75%
L'intrigue se déroulera dix ans après la destruction de l'arbre-maison.
Last Cab to Darwin (2015)
Directed by Jeremy Sims
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Romance
Actors Michael Caton, Jacki Weaver, Emma Hamilton, Mark Coles Smith, John Howard, David Field
Roles Publican
Rating71%
When Rex, a taxi driver in Broken Hill, New South Wales, is told he doesn't have long to live, he decides to pursue euthenasia at a clinic in Darwin, Northern Territory. Along the way, he experiences various encounters which encourage him to re-evaluate his life.
Save Your Legs! (2013)
, 1h32Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films
Actors David Lyons, Brenton Thwaites, Brendan Cowell, Stephen Curry, Pallavi Sharda, Madeleine West
Roles Rick
Rating56%
Edward 'Teddy' Brown lives for his suburban cricket club and his two best friends, Rick and Stavros. But when he realizes that his beloved team mates are moving on and growing up, he's forced to take matters into his own hands and remind them of just how good cricket can be.
Howzat! Kerry Packer's War (2012)
, 1h30Genres Drama
Actors Lachy Hulme, Matthew Le Nevez, Brendan Cowell, Abe Forsythe, Cariba Heine, Clayton Watson
Roles Australian wicket-keeper Rod Marsh.
Rating76%
The Ashes is the pinnacle of world cricket with two old enemies, Australia and England, going head to head. This series is the story of World Series Cricket and its creator, Australian media mogul Kerry Packer, who signed up the world's greatest players and set up a parallel cricket competition.
Directed by Cherie Nowlan
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Toby Schmitz, Claire van der Boom, Jeremy Sims, Aaron Jeffery, Nicholas Eadie, Brendan Cowell
Roles Benny O'Connell
Rating65%
The Man Who Got Away tells the true story of British-Australian drug smuggler David McMillan. McMillan came from a privileged background, but chose a life of crime, which put him on Interpol's Top Ten Most Wanted list. The love of his life was also his partner in crime, Clelia Vigano. Together McMillan and Vigano were an unstoppable force, or so they thought.
Beneath Hill 60 (2010)
, 2h2Directed by Jeremy Sims
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Brendan Cowell, Gyton Grantley, Harrison Gilbertson, Aden Young, Harrison Gilbertson, Bella Heathcote
Roles Captain Oliver Woodward
Rating69%
As seen in flashbacks that occur throughout the film, Oliver Woodward is an Australian miner supplying copper for the war effort. He falls in love with Marjorie Waddell, a young woman ten years his junior. However, he is under constant pressure to enlist, especially from Waddell's father. He has the opportunity to do so when the British Army forms the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company to supplement the Royal Engineers; Woodward is commissioned to lead the unit.
I Love You Too (2010)
, 1h43Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Brendan Cowell, Peter Dinklage, Yvonne Strahovski, Megan Gale, Bridie Carter, Steve Bisley
Roles Jim
Rating59%
Jim (Brendan Cowell) is a thirty-three-year-old, emotionally stunted man who works at a miniature railway, and refuses to grow up. He lives in the granny flat at the back of his sister's house. Jim's pregnant sister Marie (Bridie Carter) struggles with her oafish brute of a husband, Owen (Travis McMahon).
Three Blind Mice (2008)
, 1h34Directed by Matthew Newton
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Actors Matthew Newton, Ewen Leslie, Bud Tingwell, Toby Schmitz, Gracie Otto, Jacki Weaver
Roles Glenn Carter
Rating60%
Three young Australian naval officers hit the streets of Sydney for one last night before being shipped out to Iraq. The dynamic between the three friends is uneasy; Sam (Ewen Leslie) has been mistreated at sea and is going AWOL, Dean (Toby Schmitz) has a fiancé and the future in-laws to meet, and Harry (Matthew Newton) just loves playing cards. Throughout the night the boy's struggle with what a night in Sydney can offer, as details of their last six months at sea emerge.
Ten Empty (2008)
Directed by Anthony Hayes
Genres Drama
Actors Brendan Cowell, Geoff Morrell, Lucy Bell, Jack Thompson, Tom Budge
Roles Shane Hackett
Rating52%
Noise (2007)
, 1h48Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Actors Brendan Cowell, Nicholas Bell, Richard Cawthorne, Nathan Page, Georgia Bolton, Richard Pyros
Roles Const. Graham McGahan
Rating65%
The film is set up amongst the landscape of two potentially related murders: that of an engaged woman in Sunshine, and that of seven passengers on a train in Melbourne's inner west. From there, the film deals primarily with the experiences of Lavinia Smart, a young woman who boarded the train shortly after the murders, and police Constable Graham McGahan, who is afflicted with increasingly severe tinnitus. When he requests light duty on account of his tinnitus, Constable McGahan is assigned the night shift of a police information van in the inner-western Melbourne suburb of Sunshine, where he encounters the traumatized members of the local community, including Lucky Phil, a mentally handicapped man, and Dean Stouritis, the fiance of the slain woman.
, 3h1Directed by Mikael Salomon
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Vampires in film
Actors Rob Lowe, Andre Braugher, Donald Sutherland, Samantha Mathis, Robert Mammone, Dan Byrd
Roles Dud Rogers
Rating62%
The story opens with Ben Mears attacking the priest Donald Callahan in a homeless shelter in a big city. They fall together from a high window into the street. In the hospital, Ben Mears tells his story and the reasons behind his fight with the priest to an orderly.
The Monkey's Mask (2001)
, 1h33Directed by Samantha Lang
Origin Australie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Susie Porter, Kelly McGillis, Abbie Cornish, Marton Csokas, Bojana Novakovic, John Noble
Roles Hayden
Rating50%
A young woman called Mickey (Abbie Cornish) reads a poem to an audience at a bar. When she leaves, she gets into an unseen person's car.
To End All Wars (2001)
, 2h5Directed by David L. Cunningham
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Action, Historical
Themes Seafaring films, Prison films, Transport films, Political films
Actors Robert Carlyle, Kiefer Sutherland, Ciarán McMenamin, Mark Strong, James Cosmo, Masayuki Yui
Roles Pte. Wallace Hamilton
Rating68%
The film is set in a Japanese prisoner of war labour camp where the inmates are building the Burma Railway during the last three and a half years of World War II.
City Loop (2000)
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Jessica Napier, Sullivan Stapleton, Jason Gann, Brendan Cowell, Megan Dorrian, John Batchelor
Roles Robert
Rating52%
The lives and loves of several characters over a few hours on the same night, centering around a pizza delivery place called Speedys. The stories are:
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Save Your Legs! (2013)
, 1h32Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films
Actors David Lyons, Brenton Thwaites, Brendan Cowell, Stephen Curry, Pallavi Sharda, Madeleine West
Roles Histoire
Rating56%
Edward 'Teddy' Brown lives for his suburban cricket club and his two best friends, Rick and Stavros. But when he realizes that his beloved team mates are moving on and growing up, he's forced to take matters into his own hands and remind them of just how good cricket can be.