Mark Leonard Winter
Mark Leonard Winter is an Australian actor, known for performances in film, television and on stage.
Career
His screen roles include Healing (2014), Balibo (2009), Blame (2010), and One Eyed Girl (2015).[1]
On stage, he has performed major roles with leading Australian theatre companies including the Sydney Theatre Company and the Melbourne Theatre Company.
In the TV series Pine Gap (2018) he played a technical geek on the autism spectrum, Moses Dreyfus.
He also starred in the 2020 thriller film Escape from Pretoria, which was filmed in Adelaide in March 2019.[2]
Recognition
In 2016 he received Helpmann Awards for both Best Male Actor in a Play (for MTC's Birdland) and Best Male Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play for his role in Sydney Theatre Company's King Lear.[3]
Other
In November 2018, Winter gave evidence against his co-star in King Lear, Geoffrey Rush, in Rush's defamation lawsuit against the Daily Telegraph.[4]
References
- Spring, Alexandra (2015-06-27). "Mark Leonard Winter: we hold up celebrities as idols, then we crucify them". The Guardian. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
- "Daniel Radcliffe-starrer 'Escape From Pretoria' kicks off in South Australia". if.com.au. 13 March 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
- Rugendyke, Louise (2016-07-25). "Helpmann Awards 2016: Matilda the Musical sweeps the board with 13 wins". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2017-12-16.
- Michaela Whitbourn (2018-11-07). "Judge 'grapples' with why Rush would have been 'potentially destructive' on-stage". Western Australia Today. Retrieved 2019-02-25.
