Biography

He was awarded the A.M. (Member of the Order of Australia) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in June 2005 for services to film and television and for his support of community organizations, including the Hope for the Children Foundation, World Vision and the YWCA.

Was slated to star in an Australian film called Kangaroo (1986) with Olivia Newton-John, based on a D.H. Lawrence story in 1983. The film was recast and released 3 years later in 1986.

Children: Rosie (b. 1984), Matilda Brown (b. 1987) and Joe Brown (b. 1992).

Inducted into the TV Week Logie Awards Hall of Fame in 1989. He was a former insurance salesman who turned to the theatre, working in Australia and London, he starred in TV mini series such as Against the Wind (1978), A Town Like Alice (1981), The Thorn Birds (1983) and The Shiralee (1987). His movie triumphs included The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), Breaker Morant (1980), Cocktail (1988) (with Tom Cruise) and Gorillas in the Mist (1988).

Bryan Brown has starred as an Australian soldier during the Boer War, World War 1 and 2 and Vietnam.

Because I like theatre and I love a challenge. With 'Zebra!' I've found a new Australian play where I can create a character first - that's what I live to do.

You know, I stumble about what I'm going to do. I don't plan. I've never had ambitions.

Look, I've always been a confident bloke. I'm grateful to my mother for that.

I'm a Sydney suburban boy shaped entirely by the western suburbs.

I wanted to be an actor, and when that day happened that was sort of like the end. Now let it take me.