Nominated- AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Airing of the final season was also pushed to 2015. Shooting for the show was paused for six months to allow his full recovery. In February on a night out in Bangkok after work, he fell off a tuk-tuk (a type of motorised rickshaw) and suffered a head injury that left him in a coma. In early 2014, Stapleton was in Thailand for the filming of the TV series Strike Back. Previously he played Pat Barbaro in Underbelly (episode Suffer the Children) in 2008. This time he was the lead character, Colin McLaren in Underbelly Files: Infiltration, an endurance test and the first challenging shoot of his career. He made his second appearance in the Underbelly, an Australian true crime drama television series. ![]() When Animal Kingdom won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival interest in him sparked on two continents and his career has taken him across the globe. But it was with Stapleton's performance in the Academy Award nominated film Animal Kingdom, which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, that he made an international breakthrough. Other notable roles include Justin Davies in the Australian televised serial The Secret Life Of Us (between 20), Fearless in the motion picture December Boys (released in 2007), special agent Wilkins in the mainstream feature, The Condemned (an American action film distributed in 2007). īefore landing a role as Josh Hughes in Australian soap opera Neighbours in 1998, he appeared in a string of little-seen features and homegrown dramas. ( The Elephant Princess, Rush, Tangle) in front and behind the camera, working on building sites, and assisting carpenters. In 1995, Sullivan appeared in Blue Heelers for one episode, and again in 2003 for 3 episodes. Between acting jobs, Stapleton did several types of work: modeling, cleaning animal cages in a pet shop, working as a grip (taking care of the camera equipment) in a considerable number of films and TV productions. His first onscreen acting performance was in the 1994 Australian TV-movie Baby Bath Massacre as Adrian. He got his actors' union card at the age of 9 (in 1986) and at the age of 11 he started working in ads. He studied drama and theatre at Sandringham Secondary College (in Sandringham, Victoria, Australia). Stapleton received training at Melbourne's St. ![]() Pleased by his performance, the director qualified him as gifted and encouraged him to pursue acting. His picture caught the attention of a director who then invited him to be in his short film (about high school dropouts at a party where girls were dying, without the graphic violence). Stapleton's younger brother Joshua Stapleton also launched into acting in early childhood following his brother's footsteps yet along with pursuing talents in Dance and Musical Theater. ![]() She then asked her nephew and nieces if they would like to join and their mother signed them in. The idea first came to their aunt who signed her kids with the agency. He was eight years old when he and his younger sister, actress Jacinta Stapleton, six at the time, joined an acting and modelling agency. Stapleton was born in Melbourne, Victoria.
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