Nicholas Hope
Nicholas Hope (born 25 December 1958) is a British-born Australian actor.
Nicholas Hope | |
|---|---|
| Born | 25 December 1958 Manchester, Lancashire, England |
| Occupation | 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. He also appeared in The School in 2018[2] and Moon Rock For Monday directed by Kurt Martin and produced by Jim Robison in 2021.[3]
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.[4]
Partial filmography
- Confessor Caressor (1989)
- Bad Boy Bubby (1993) – Bubby
- Exile (1994)
- Little White Lies (1996)
- 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 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
- Redd Inc. (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
- The School (2018)) - Dr. Peter Masuta
- Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018) - Colonel Fitzhubert
- Henry Needs a New Home (short film) (2018) - Henry
- Moon Rock For Monday (2021) - The Bobbins
- The Drover's Wife (2021)
- Limbo (2023)
References
- "Interview: 'Bad Boy Bubby' Star Nicholas Hope Talks About Starring in the Controversial Aussie Cult Classic". Screen Realm. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - Jeremy, Kay (3 April 2017). "Production underway on supernatural thriller 'The School'". Screen Daily.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - Free, Erin (8 September 2021). "Moon Rock For Monday - Review". Film Ink.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - "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