Sullivan Stapleton
Sullivan Stapleton was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on June 14th, 1977 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 46, Sullivan Stapleton biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Sullivan Stapleton (born 14 June 1977) is an Australian actor best known for his appearances in the SKY (BSkyB)/Cinemax/HBO television series Strike Back, Animal Kingdom, and 300: Rise of an Empire.
He is currently appearing in the NBC crime drama Blindspot, which premiered on September 21, 2015. In the film 300: Rise of an Empire (2014), Stapleton played the leading role, Greek king Themistocles.
On October 24, 2013, he was honoured with a Breakthrough Award at an exclusive Australians in Film Benefit Dinner held in Los Angeles.
Early life
Stapleton was born in Melbourne, Victoria. He and his younger sister, actress Jacinta Stapleton, were six at the time, joined an acting and modeling company when he was eight years old. The idea was first presented to their aunt who enrolled her children with the department. She then asked her nephew and nieces if they would like to join and their mother signed them in, and her uncle and nieces followed her. Joshua, Stapleton's younger brother, began acting in early childhood; in addition to acting, he pursued interests in dance and musical theatre.
The photograph of Stapleton attracted the attention of a filmmaker who invited him to be in his short film (about high school dropouts at a party where girls were dying, without the graphic violence). The director, who was awed by his appearance, said he was gifted and encouraged to continue acting.
Stapleton received his education at St. Martin's Theatre in Melbourne. Sandringham Secondary College (in Sandringham, Victoria, Australia) studied drama and theatre.
Career
Stapleton began his career in Australia. At the age of 9, he obtained his actors' union card, and at 11, he began working in advertisements. Adrian Stapleton's first on-screen role came in the 1994 Australian TV-movie Baby Bath Massacre. Stapleton did a variety of roles in acting: designing, sweeping animal cages in a pet store, and working as a grip in several film and TV productions. Sullivan appeared in Blue Heelers for one episode in 1995 and again in 2003 for three episodes. (The Elephant Princess, Rush, Tangle) front and back camera, shooting on building sites and assisting carpenters.
Josh Hughes appeared in a string of little-seen features and homegrown dramas before being cast in Australian soap opera Neighbours in 1998. Justin Davies in the Australian television series The Secret Life of Us (between 2003 and 2005), Fearless in the motion picture December Boys (first released in 2007), special agent Wilkins in the mainstream film The Condemned (an American action film released in 2007). But it was during Stapleton's appearance in the Academy Award-nominated film Animal Kingdom, which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, that he made a global debut.
He caused worldwide notice when Animal Kingdom gained the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and his career has taken him around the globe. Colin McLaren, the lead character in Underbelly Files: Infiltration, made his second appearance in Underbelly, an Australian true crime television series, this time as the lead actor. Stapleton's first shooting of his career was a strenuous one. In 2008, he played Pat Barbaro in Underbelly (episode Suffer the Children).
Stapleton appeared in Thailand early 2014 for the production of Strike Back's television series. He fell off a tuk-tuk and into a head injury in February, putting him in a coma. Former UFC Middleweight Champion Michael Bisping, with whom he had been spending his nights out, revived him. The show was postponed for six months to allow for complete recovery. The fifth season of airing was also postponed until 2015.