Mark Hembrow

Mark Hembrow
Born	1955 (age 61–62) Brisbane, Australia
Other names	Mark Hambrow
Occupation	actor
Years active	1976-present
Children	Amy,Emily,Tammy.

Mark Hembrow (born 1955 in Brisbane) is an Australian actor, writer and musician. His parents were Vernon Charles Hembrow, who was an English Literature lecturer at the Teachers Training College at Kelvin Grove and his mother Sally Hembrow, was a daytime women's television presenter and cook on the Channel Nine series 'Living Graciously' which aired from 1963-1973. She was a forerunner for women in television, food, fashion and interior decor. Sally also had a radio show on 4KQ named 'Hotline to the Oven'. Mark's education was at Ashgrove State School and then St. Peters Lutheran College Indooroopilly.

Mark first stepped on stage at the second play ever performed at La Boîte Theatre Company, as Barnaby Tucker in The Matchmaker and then in Hayfever and Fetch Me A Fig Leaf the musical, all directed by Graham Johnson. He then did a musical, Once Upon a Mattress at the Arts Theatre Brisbane, which was to be his last amateur production at aged 17.

At 18 years of age, Mark first started working professionally for the main company at Queensland Theatre Company where he worked in productions over two years while doing in-service training. Productions included 'Springle' a secondary school theatre and education production, written by Billy Brown to celebrate 100 years of education. He also performed in Equus, School for Scoundrels, Savages, Jumpers, The Department, Hamlet and Fourth of July before heading to Sydney.

His first professional jobs in Sydney were with the Old Tote Theatre Company (Now Sydney Theatre Company) in a production of Night of the Iguana and on Television series Young Doctors as Georgie Saint. He then worked on two musicals, Rocky Horror Show and Paradise Regained. And then in his first feature, Goodbye Paradise directed by Karl Schultz.

Mark proceeded to do many ABC tv shows and feature films, until he decided to walk away from the industry to raise his three daughters in the Mountains, during this time he wrote two feature film scripts and was composing music. Mark's return to the screen has been the Straits directed by Rachael Ward and Old School starring Bryan Brown and Sam Neil by Matchbox Productions.

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