Ben Winspear

Ben Winspear is an Australian actor and director.^[1] He won a 2009 Helmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play having previously been nominated for the same category in 2003. For his performance in the TV series My Place he was nominated for the 2010 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actor in a Television Drama.^[2]

Ben Winspear
Born	c. 1976[1] Wagga Wagga[1]
Occupation	Actor
Partner	Marta Dusseldorp[1]
Children	2

Screen roles he has played includes the TV series A Place to Call Home.^[3] and Underbelly: Badness^[4] and films The Babadook^[5] and Bad Girl.^[6] He also appears in Bay of Fires which was co-produced by Archipelago Productions, a company he co-founded with his wife Marta Dusseldorp.^[7]

Winspear has a long theatre career^[8] including Baghdad Wedding for Company B,^[9] for which he won the Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play,^[10] and Great Expectations at the Drama Theatre (Sydney Opera House),^[11] for which he was nominated for the same award.^[12] He appeared with Marta Dusseldorp in Joanna Murray-Smith's adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's 1973 film Scenes from a Marriage for Queensland Theatre in 2017.^[13]

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2023	Bay of Fires (TV series)	Rowan	2 episodes
2020-21	Rosehaven	Sam	3 episodes
2021	Finding Jedda		Short
2017	Remembering Agatha	Bill	Short
	Pile	Father	Short
	The Suitor	Mr Sappleton	Short
2016	Bad Girl	Peter Anderson
	Perry	Ben's Mate	Short
	Emerald City Live	Mike
2014-15	A Place to Call Home (TV series)	René Nordmann	11 episodes
2015	House of Hancock	Con Heliotis	1 episode
2015	Breeding in Captivity	Andrew	Film
2014	Black Comedy	Guest	2 episodes
	Old School	Rodger	1 episode
	Rake (Australian TV series)	Sebastian Strong	3 episodes
	The Babadook	Oskar
2013	The Last Goodbye	Joel
2012	Riccohet	Oliver	Short
	Underbelly[14]	Tim Browne	8 episodes
2011	Loveless	Max	Short
	Crownies	Dr Preston	1 episode
	Panic at Rock Island	Baz Gaha	TV Movie
2009	My Place	Michaelis	2 episodes
2008	Every Other Weekend	Bart	Short

References

1. Coslovich, Gabriella (25 September 2020). "Marta Dusseldorp and Ben Winspear: the thespians who want to reboot Tasmania". The Sydney Morning Herald.
2. "Baker, Collette in mix for this year's AFI awards". Daily Mercury. Mackay, Queensland. 14 November 2010.
3. Kalina, Paul (26 June 2014). "Actor Ben Winspear plays opposite his wife Marta Dusseldorp in A Place To Call Home". The Sydney Morning Herald.
4. "Underbelly baddie – is a Perish killer". Centralian Advocate. 24 April 2012.
5. Foundas, Scott (6 February 2014). "Film Review: The Babadook". Variety. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
6. Stratton, David (29 April 2017). "The hermit's kingdom". The Australian.
7. Enker, Debi (13 July 2023). "Marta Dusseldorp battles dark undercurrents in Tasmania's wild west". The Sydney Morning Herald.
8. Ben Winspear, AusStage
9. Hallett, Bryce (13 February 2009). "Powerful odyssey of love, sex and war". The Sydney Morning Herald.
10. Lalak, Alex (28 July 2009). "Witches cast a spell at awards". The Daily Telegraph.
11. Munro, Peter (18 October 2002). "Bobby dazzler – Stage". The Sydney Morning Herald.
12. Gibson, Joel (11 April 2003). "Stars strut their stuff for Bobbys". The Sydney Morning Herald.
13. "Scenes from a Marriage". Australian Arts Review (review). 6 November 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2023.
14. "Nine confirms Underbelly: Badness by David Knox, TV Tonight, 17 April 2012

External links

• Ben Winspear at IMDb