Ned Manning

Ned Manning
Born	1950 (age 66–67)
Occupation	Actor, writer, teacher
Nationality	Australian
Spouse	Bronwyn Bancroft (1) Marion Potts (2)
Children	Jack, Ella, and two with Potts

Ned Manning is an Australian playwright, actor and teacher, whose film credits include the lead role in Dead End Drive-In (1986) and an appearance in the teen film Looking for Alibrandi (2000). Manning's television credits include Bodyline, The Shiralee, "Prisoner"", and Brides of Christ. His first major play was Us or Them, and its production by Griffin Theatre Company marked the company's transition to being staffed by professional actors. Other plays have included Milo, Kenny's Coming Home and Close to the Bone; in 2007 Manning played the lead in his own play Last One Standing at the Old Fitzroy theatre in Sydney. The plays have received mixed reviews, with Last One Standing in particular being criticised for its formulaic and predictable narrative. Manning has written for the Bell Shakespeare Company's Actors at Work program, a travelling community and schools theatrical education initiative.

At one time the husband of Indigenous Australian artist Bronwyn Bancroft, Manning has since remarried, to theatre director Marion Potts. His children include New South Wales Young Australian of the Year for 2010, Jack Manning Bancroft.

Ned Manning was born in 1950 and grew up on a property in Coonabarabran, New South Wales. He married Bronwyn Bancroft, an Indigenous Australian artist, with whom he had two children, including New South Wales Young Australian of the Year for 2010, Jack Manning Bancroft. Manning remarried to theatre director Marion Potts, with whom he had two children. In 2010, they relocated from Sydney to Melbourne when she was appointed director of the Malthouse Theatre.

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