Brendan Cowell
Birthday: Born in in
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Love My Way
Character: Tom Jackson
Love My Way is a Logie Award winning and critically acclaimed Australian television drama series. It won the AFI award for Best Television Drama Series for each of its three seasons. Love My Way was about a group of thirty-somethings dealing with the ups and downs of life. The series revolves around an extended family unit - Frankie Paige and Charlie Jackson are the separated parents of Lou, and Frankie also lives with Charlie's brother, Tom. As the series began, Charlie's new wife Julia is abo...
The End
Character: Christopher Brennan
Three generations of a family with separate but intersecting obsessions - trying to figure out how to die with dignity, live with none and make it count....
Rush
Character: Blake Fincher
They are trained to be smarter, tactically superior and technologically advantaged - Melbourne's answer for a cutting edge trend in policing worldwide. Rush was an Australian television police drama that first screened on Network Ten in September 2008. Set in Melbourne, Victoria, it focuses on the members of a Police Tactical Response team. It is produced by John Edwards and Southern Star. On 10 November 2011, as with Network Ten setting out DVD promotions for the finale of season 4, David Kno...
Life Support
Character: Todd
A satirical, sometimes dark look at Australian life as seen through the omnipresent lens of the Television Lifestyle Show....
White Collar Blue
Character: Daniel Hudson
White Collar Blue is an Australian television series made by Knapman Wyld Television for Network Ten from 2002 to 2003. Starring Peter O'Brien as Joe Hill and Freya Stafford as Harriet Walker, the series dealt with a division of the police force working in the city of Sydney and the personal and professional tensions affecting their work and lives. In the pilot episode, Harriet is introduced as the new face to Kingsway station, transferring from the "White Collar" federal police to the "Blue C...
Police Rescue Australia
Character: Narrator
Follow police rescue and bomb disposal teams in high risk situations. From mountain rescues, missing persons cases, sieges and counter terrorism, we see police save others....
Howzat! Kerry Packer's War
Character: Rodney Marsh
Australian media mogul Kerry Packer fought a cricket war by secretly signing up 50 of the world's greatest players to form a breakaway tournament....
Wastelander Panda: Exile
Character: Isaac (voice)
Banished to the Wasteland, Isaac sets out to find a young girl and reinstate his family into the Tribe of Legion....
Brock
Character: Allan Moffat
Brock is a dramatisation that follows the life of Australian motor racing legend, Peter Brock. From his early racing days to his tragic death in Perth, TEN's new drama traces the soaring highs and brutal lows of one of the country’s most beloved sportsmen....
Game of Thrones
Character: Harrag
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond....
The Twelve
Character: Garry Thorne
The story of 12 ordinary Australians who are selected for jury duty in a murder trial as traumatising as it is controversial, in which a woman stands accused of killing her teenage niece....
The Castaways
Character: Mike Brass
Lori and Erin are on the holiday of a lifetime to Fiji. But after a huge fight, Erin never boards their final flight and the plane never arrives at its destination. Months later, no plane has been found, no survivors discovered. Until now....
Press
Character: Peter Langly
The lives of the editors and journalists working at a left-leaning broadsheet and a populist tabloid....
Salem's Lot
Character: Dud Rogers
A dark terror has come to the picture-perfect town of Jerusalem's Lot, and it's up to a writer with a haunted past to uncover the horror that has taken over the town....
The Test
Character:
A docuseries following the Australian Men’s Cricket Team, offering a behind-the-scenes look at how one of the world’s best cricket teams fell from grace and was forced to reclaim their title and integrity....
Young Lions
Character: Jason Doone
Young Lions was an Australian TV police drama broadcast on the Nine Network in 2002 and in Ireland on RTÉ Two.The series was based around the professional and private lives of four rookie detectives, the Young Lions, of South West 101, an inner city Sydney police station. The program rated poorly and was not renewed after its first season. Competition from other new drama series and several timeslot changes also contributed to the show's demise....
The Slap
Character: Craig
When a man slaps a 4-year-old boy, the incident results in an intense court case....
Plum
Character: Peter Lum
Peter Lum, a football star, lives an ideal life in Cronulla until a diagnosis links his concussions to a brain disorder. Unable to accept it, he tries escaping through pub nights but his ex-wife and son know the game caused his downfall....
Dune: Prophecy
Character: Duke Ferdinand Richese
Ten thousand years before the ascension of Paul Atreides, sisters Valya and Tula Harkonnen establish the fabled sect and female order that would become known as the Bene Gesserit to control the future of humankind....
Movie Credits
To End All Wars
Character: Pte. Wallace Hamilton
Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon, Lt. Jim Reardon and Maj. Ian Campbell are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. While Campbell wants to rebel and attempt an escape, Gordon tries to take a more stoic approach, an attitude that proves to be surprisingly resonant....
Noise
Character: Const. Graham McGahan
The community reels after an incident on a suburban train. A young cop, beset with doubt and afflicted with tinnitus, is pitched into the chaos that follows this tragic event. He struggles to clear the noises in his head while all around him deal with the after burn of the crime....
City Loop
Character: Robert
City Loop tells the story of six young people who work in a pizzeria, as they struggle to comes to terms with boredom, fear of responsibility and pizzas to go...
Three Blind Mice
Character: Glenn Carter
Three young Navy officers hit Sydney for one last night on land before being shipped over to the Gulf to fight. Sam has been mistreated at sea and is going AWOL, Dean has a fiancé and the future in-laws to meet, and Harry just loves playing cards. Throughout the night the boys lose each other, find themselves, and along the way discover courage, friendship and redemption....
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Character: Mick Scoresby
In the wake of the devastating war against the RDA and the loss of their eldest son, Jake Sully and Neytiri face a new threat on Pandora: the Ash People, a violent and power-hungry Na'vi tribe led by the ruthless Varang. Jake's family must fight for their survival and the future of Pandora in a conflict that pushes them to their emotional and physical limits....
Beneath Hill 60
Character: Captain Oliver Woodward
The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare—one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was secret struggle BENEATH the Western Front that combined daring engineering, technology and science. Few on the surface knew of the brave, claustrophobic and sometimes barbaric work of these tunnellers....
I Love You Too
Character: Jim
Written by comedian Peter Helliar, I LOVE YOU TOO stars Brendan Cowell as Jim, a 30-something emotionally stunted man whose inability to declare his love to his girlfriend, Alice, threatens to cost him the best thing he ever had but leads him to befriend a talented dwarf who helps him find the words to get her back....
Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away
Character: Benny O'Connell
The story of David McMillan an Australian drug smuggler and the only person in history to escape from Klong Prem prison in Bangkok....
Monster!
Character: Nate
Tragedy strikes a small town's monster movie festival when the monster featured in the films comes to life....
Save Your Legs!
Character: Rick
When cricket obsessed Teddy Brown realizes his mates are growing up and moving on, he leads them and his D-Grade team on an audacious tour of India, where stumps fly, friendships fray and Ted learns that it's time to start playing shots for himself....
National Theater Live: The Crucible
Character:
A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller's captivating parable of power with Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Brendan Cowell (Yerma). Raised to be seen but not heard, a group of young women in Salem suddenly find their words have an almighty power. As a climate of fear, vendetta and accusation spreads through the community, no one is safe from trial. Lindsey Turner (Hamlet) directs this contemporary new staging, design by Tony award winner Es Devlin. Captured live from the Olivier stage of the n...
Broke
Character: Dirk
A disgraced sports star and gambling addict attempts to turn his life around with the support of his number one fan....
Revealed: Otto By Otto
Character: Self
Inspired to make an original, intimate family portrait, Gracie Otto directs a feature length documentary on her father, Barry Otto, whose career in Australian theatre, film and television has spanned more than 50 years. Baz as he is affectionately known is one of a kind - a truly creative, endearing and extremely eccentric personality who embraces the serious and the silly. This story is about Gracie's relationship with her father, in the twilight of his career and his life, as she tries to capt...
Observance
Character: Employer
In the grip of grief following the death of his young son, his marriage on the rocks and nearing bankruptcy, Parker reluctantly returns to work as a private investigator. Embarking on an unusual assignment to observe a woman from an abandoned apartment, Parker witnesses bizarre happenings surrounding her, unaware that the derelict building that he surveys her from has birthed a dark presence which slowly threatens to consume him....
Floodhouse
Character: Herringbone John
Two girls are sent to live in the Australian bush with their hippy father. As they gradually bond, a stranger arrives from a town called Paradise....
National Theatre Live: Yerma
Character: John
A woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child in Simon Stone’s radical production of Lorca’s achingly powerful masterpiece....
Bee Sting
Character: Tom Stanners
Bee Sting takes in love and complications as a father and son fall for the same woman on the schoolyard....
Last Cab to Darwin
Character: Publican
Rex is a loner, and when he's told he doesn't have long to live, he embarks on an epic drive through the Australian outback from Broken Hill to Darwin to die on his own terms; but his journey reveals to him that before you can end your life, you have to live it, and to live it, you've got to share it....
Black Chook
Character: Jim Bloke
They were Australia’s bad days. Men killed other men and laughed. All that was left for the children of the dead was to remember. If they had the strength....
The Monkey's Mask
Character: Hayden
A lesbian private detective dives head first into murder, manipulation and the consuming power of sex....
Avatar: The Way of Water
Character: Mick Scoresby
Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure....
Ten Empty
Character: Shane Hackett
A disillusioned son's trip home is complicated when ten years of family secrets explode over one weekend....
The Siege of Barton's Bathroom
Character: Dominic Barton
A young girl locks herself in her family bathroom in order to protest her father and neighbor's plan to cut down a beloved tree in the family's backyard. Later adapted into the pilot for a TV series called "The Bartons," with a different cast....
Dune: Prophecy - Lincoln Centre Premiere
Character: Duke Ferdinand Richese
An edited film version of Dune: Prophecy comprised of the first two episodes of, aired at the HBO original premiere in New York City....