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Richard Cawthorne - AACTA Awards - Sydney Opera House, 2012.
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Born |
Richard Cawthorne 3 December 1976 |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 2000–present |
Richard Seymour Cawthorne (born 3 December 1976) is an Australian actor of theatre, film and television.
Cawthorne has appeared in many film and television productions. His credits include Catching Milat, Fat Tony & Co, Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms, The Straits, East West 101, Rush (2008 TV series), Noise (2007 Australian film), Neighbours, Underbelly: Squizzy, Wolf Creek (TV series) and Killing Time, for which he won the 2012 Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA)Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Television Drama. In 2015 Richard was appointed Ambassador to the National Theatre, Melbourne.
Cawthorne was born in Hong Kong in 1976, the youngest of two, his mother Zelda was a journalist for the South China Morning Post, and his father Russelll, a Marketing Executive for Hong Kong film company Golden Harvest Studios.
Cawthorne is also first cousin to Australian Labour Minister, and Victorian Attorney General Martin Pakula.