Ben Winspear

Ben Winspear
Bornc. 1976[1]
Wagga Wagga[1]
OccupationActor
PartnerMarta Dusseldorp[1]
Children2

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]

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]

  1. ^ a b c d 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.