Chris Haywood

Chris Haywood
Born	Chris Haywood Australian actor 24/07/1948 Essex, England
Years active	1970 - present

Chris Haywood (born 24 July 1948) is an actor/producer who found success with over 400 individual performances in Australian film and television.

Early life

Haywood was born in Billericay, Essex, England. He spent his early childhood in Chelmsford before moving to High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire where he attended High Wycombe Royal Grammar School from 1959 to 1965. He then started working in the cellars of a local wine shipper before gaining a place at E15 Acting School. After graduating in 1970 he migrated to Australia and soon after, he was involved with Sydney's Nimrod Theatre Company and according to an interview with ABC reporter Jane Cowan, actually helped build the premises with scrap timber. He was the Artistic Director of the Pro's and Con's Playhouse at Parramatta Jail for two years. He established the drama service on Kiribati National Radio. .^[1]

Film

Film credits include: The Cars That Ate Paris, Newsfront, Razor Back, In Search of Anna, Kostas, Breaker Morant, Running on Empty, Lonely Hearts, The Clinic directed by David Stevens, Man of Flowers, Strikebound, Malcolm, The Bit Part, Golden Braid, Quigley Down Under, A Woman's Tale, Muriel's Wedding, Shine, Water Diaries, Jindabyne,The View from Greenhaven and The Boys are Back in Town.

Television

TV credits include: Homicide, Against the Wind, Five Mile Creek, Return to Eden, Waterfront, Boys From The Bush, Water Rats, Farscape, McLeod's Daughters, All Saints, Stingers, Grass Roots and Home and Away.

Awards

His performances have been honoured with three Awards from the Australian Film Institute (from a total of eight nominations) for his roles in the feature films A Street to Die and Emerald City, and for television in Stingers as well as the Film Critics Circle Award for Kiss or Kill and the Asian Film Festival Award for In Search of Anna. Additionally, he has garnered three Logie Awards for his work on television-for Essington, Good Thing Going and Janus. Most recently he received the best actor award at the Tampa Bay Film Festival, Florida.

References

External links

• Brian McFarlane, Geoff Mayer, Ina Bertrand (Ed.) (1999). The Oxford companion to Australian film. Melbourne, Australia ; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-553797-1. 
• Chris Haywood at the Internet Movie Database