Nicholas Hope
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Born | Manchester, Lancashire, England | 25 December 1958
Occupation | Actor |
Nicholas Hope (born 25 December 1958) is a British-born Australian actor.
Born in Manchester, England, Hope's family emigrated to the steel and ship building town of Whyalla, South Australia, where he was educated by the Christian Brothers.
He played the lead role in Bad Boy Bubby (1993), for which he won the Australian Film Institute Best Actor in a Leading Role award in 1994.[1] He continues to work in film, theatre and television in Australia and Europe. He lives in Sydney, Australia.
In 2004, he published a memoir called Brushing the Tip of Fame, and in 2006 produced a monologue "The Colour of Panic", which played in Sydney (The Studio, Sydney Opera House) and Oslo (Det Åpne Teater).
A portrait of Hope appears in the National Portrait Gallery.[2]
Partial filmography[]
- Confessor Caressor (1989)
- Bad Boy Bubby (1993) – Bubby
- Exile (1994)
- Henry Fool (1997) – Father Hawkes
- The Goddess of 1967 (2000) – Grandpa
- Scooby-Doo (2002) – Old Man Smithers
- Paradise Found (2003) – Maurrin
- Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004) – Christian Van Dyke who only appears in one trailer, not in the film
- Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler? (2006) – Geoffrey Chandler
- Uro (2006)
- Bitter Flowers (2007) – Warren Donaldson
- The Prime Minister is Missing (2008) – William McMahon
- 3 Acts of Murder (2009) – Harry Manning
- (2012)
- Double Happiness Uranium (2013)
- Gallipoli (2015) - Walter Braithwaite
- The Daughter (2015) - Peterson
- Truth (2015) - Marcel Matley
- Ash vs Evil Dead (2016) - Professor Raymond Knowby
- Cleverman (2017) - Dr. Mitchell
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018) - Colonel Fitzhubert
- Henry Needs a New Home (short film) (2018) - Henry
- The Drover's Wife (2021)
References[]
- ^ "Interview: 'Bad Boy Bubby' Star Nicholas Hope Talks About Starring in the Controversial Aussie Cult Classic". Screen Realm. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
- ^ "Nicholas Hope, b. 1959". National Portrait Gallery people. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
External links[]
- Australia: The Dream is Dead, article written by Hope (in Norwegian)
- Interview from July 2004
- Nicholas Hope at IMDb
- Hope takes the rap
- 1958 births
- Australian male film actors
- Australian male television actors
- English emigrants to Australia
- Living people
- Male actors from Manchester
- Male actors from South Australia
- People from Whyalla
- 20th-century Australian male actors
- 21st-century Australian male actors
- Australian actor stubs