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Nathan Phillips is an Australian actor.

Life and career

His professional acting career began in 1999, with a role on the popular Australian soap opera Neighbours. His television career was later followed by roles in Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story, Blue Heelers, Something in the Air and The Saddle Club.

In 2002, he made his feature film debut with a role in Warriors of Virtue: The Return to Tao (also starring Kevin Smith, Shedrack Anderson III and Nina Liu). His next role, the lead in Australian Rules, earned him a nomination for the Film Critics Circle of Australia's Best Actor award, alongside David Gulpilil, Guy Pearce and Vince Colosimo.

Phillips's film career has seen him star in both Australian productions, such as Take Away (with Rose Byrne), One Perfect Day (with Abbie Cornish) and Under the Radar, and Hollywood productions such as Chernobyl Diaries, Redline and Surfer, Dude and most notably Snakes on a Plane. He is perhaps most known for his role as backpacker Ben Mitchell in the 2005 hit horror film Wolf Creek. After the success of this film, Phillips moved to Los Angeles, where he was based for several years.

Although tipped for big things in Hollywood after the success of Wolf Creek, Phillips chose to go travelling for long periods of time, rather than focus on his career as an actor. Phillips' career has, to date, consisted mostly of roles in low budget films and television work, such as his role as Tom Wills, Australia's first significant cricketer and father of Australian rules football. In 2020, Phillips appeared in the Nine Network series Halifax: Retribution.

From 2019 on, Phillips is back living in his native Australia and working on television and film projects there. In addition to acting, Phillips was a producer of 2019's Blood Vessel.

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards

• Nominated: 2001 Film Critics Circle of Australia: Best Actor (Australian Rules).

References

1. "'Snakes on a Plane' and the Simple Pleasures of Silly Horror Movies - Bloody Disgusting". 17 April 2020.
2. "Nathan Phillips". Retrieved 18 July 2022. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
3. "These Final Hours star Nathan Phillips lives life like there's no tomorrow". Interfax-Ukraine. 30 July 2014. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
4. Flanagan, Martin (5 August 2016). "Tom Wills one hell of a story", The Age. Retrieved 5 August 2016.
5. "A Chat with Nathan Phillips – Blood Vessel, Acting in Australia, and Living with Yowies - the Curb". 4 August 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2022. {{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
6. In the running. The Age (16 October 2002)

External links

• Nathan Phillips at IMDb

• 21st-century Australian male actors
• Australian male film actors
• Australian male television actors
• Living people
• Male actors from Melbourne
• People from Sunbury, Victoria