Simon Lyndon

Simon Lyndon
Born	(1971-02-18) February 18, 1971 (age 53) London, England, United Kingdom
Education	Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
Occupation(s)	Actor, director

Simon Lyndon (born 18 February 1971 in London) is an English-born Australian actor and director who grew up in Fremantle, Western Australia. He is a WAAPA graduate.

Career[edit]

Film roles[edit]

Lyndon played Jimmy Loughnan in Chopper with Eric Bana, for which he won an AFI award for Best Supporting Actor^[1] and a Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Supporting Actor.^[2] He received AFI nominations for Best Supporting Actor for Blackrock^[1] (as Brett 'Ricko' Ricketson) and Best Actor in a Telefeature or Mini-series for his role as Jack Meredith in My Brother Jack.^[3]

Other films include Fresh Air, Sample People, The Thin Red Line, From the Outside,^[4] Caught Inside,^[5] Falling in the Paradise,^[6] The Glenmore Job,^[7] The Well and Dust off the Wings^[8]

Television roles[edit]

Lyndon's TV appearances include Police Rescue, Heartbreak High, Wildside,^[4] Underbelly^[9] and Canal Road.^[10]

He also appeared in FOX network show Roar in 1997 as a tribe leader named Colm. The lead role of Connor Der Kilte was played by fellow Australian and Lyndon's former Blackrock co-star Heath Ledger.

In 2011 he played a younger Jack Thompson in Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo on ABC 1. He played the miner who died, Larry Knight, in the TV film Beaconsfield about the 2006 mine disaster. Also in 2011 Simon appeared in the second series of Spirited, on Foxtel, playing a ghost known as 'The King' or Darren Bonney, who lives in an apartment with a dentist (Claudia Karvan), who is in love with another ghost resident.

Simon played Tintagel Stone in an episode of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries in 2012. He also appeared in TV series Puberty Blues as a surfing teacher Gumby that same year.

He appeared as Emilio the truck business owner in season 2 of Mystery Road (episodes 1–3). He also played the unfortunate Hedwig's father Michael in the 2021 Netflix series Eden, and Twist in 2022 ABC TV series Troppo.

Stage roles[edit]

In 2013 Lyndon was in a four-person play called Anaconda by Sarah Doyle, with Tamarama Rock Surfers at Bondi Pavilion. He has also directed a Tamarama Rock Surfers production of Road, featuring among others Bojana Novakovic, Jeremy Cumpston, Zena Cumpston and Angie Milliken, as well as a Tamarama Rock Surfers production of Diary of a Madman starring Alan Morris.

In June/July 2017 Lyndon appeared in Sunset Strip, a four-person play by Suzie Miller, performed by Stables Theatre Company at Griffin Theatre in Darlinghurst. He reprised this role in a tour around Australia by the same company in 2019.

He has also appeared on stage in That Eye the Sky, Blackrock (in a different role to which he played in the film version), Cloudstreet and Popcorn.^[4]

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

Television[edit]

Theatre[edit]

As actor[edit]

As director[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Simon Lyndon at IMDb