Mark Leonard Winter

Screen

Winter's film roles include Balibo (2009), Blame (2010), Dangerous Remedy (2012), Healing (2014), One Eyed Girl (2015), The Dressmaker alongside Kate Winslet, and Little Tornadoes (2020).^[2][3] He starred in the 2020 thriller film Escape from Pretoria.^[4]

In the TV series Pine Gap (2018) Winter played a technical geek on the autism spectrum, Moses Dreyfus. Winter was nominated for an AACTA Award for his performance in 2020's TV mini-series, Halifax: Retribution. Following that, Winter played Callum on the TV mini-series Inside, then Russell in the TV series The Newsreader in 2021. In 2021 he also played Joel Welch, a methadone addict in episode 3 of the ABC TV series Fires.^{[citation needed]}

Stage

On stage, he has performed major roles with leading Australian theatre companies, including the Sydney Theatre Company and the Melbourne Theatre Company. Winter is one of the founding members of Black Lung, an independent theatre company.^[5] In 2015, Winter starred in the Melbourne Theatre Company's production of Simon Stephens' Birdland. for which he won Best Male Actor at the Helpmann Awards.^[2]

Winter directed Jason Alexander in an American production of The Blind Date Project, a type of improv which he helped to devise.^[6][1]

Directing

Winter's first film as writer-director, The Rooster, is a comedy drama starring Hugo Weaving,^[7] which premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival in August 2023.^[8] The film was selected as one of four nominees for the CinefestOZ Film Prize, worth A$100,000, in September 2023,^[9][10] and was also nominated for the 2023 AACTA Award for Best Indie Film.^[11]

It was released in Australian cinemas on 22 February 2024.^[12]

Film

Television

As cast

As crew

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