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    by singinggirl • Created 12 years ago • Modified 11 years ago

    Australian actors have been represented amongst the best in the world for a long time - not just in the last few years. This is my list of Australian actors who have made it on the international stage.

    Thanks for your suggestions below - I know it's not a perfect list and it's great there are more to add:) However, please don't be offended if your favourite current actor isn't there! (I'd love to know if I've missed any old ones though :)

    My main motivation for starting the list was to acknowledge that Australians making it big as performers overseas is not just a recent thing. Australians have always been represented in Hollywood since they started making movies. Also in other performing arts settings (eg Nellie Melba, Peter Dawson) ... My focus was on the earlier people, but didn't seem fair to cut it off as today's Aussies are just as remarkable.

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    Keith Michell

    Michell in 1973

    Born

    Keith Joseph Michell


    (1926-12-01)1 December 1926

    Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

    Died20 November 2015(2015-11-20) (aged 88)

    Hampstead, London, England, UK

    Years active1951–2010
    Spouse(s)Jeanette Sterke (1957–2015; his death); 2 children
    ChildrenPaul and Helena
    AwardsBest Television Actor
    1970 The Six Wives of Henry VIII

    Keith Joseph Michell (1 December 1926 – 20 November 2015) was an Australian actor who worked primarily in the United Kingdom, and was best known for his television and film portrayals of King Henry VIII. He appeared extensively in Shakespeare and other classics and musicals in Britain, and was also in several Broadway productions. He was an artistic director of the Chichester Festival Theatre in the 1970s and later had a recurring role on Murder, She Wrote as the charming thief Dennis Stanton. He was also known for illustrating a collection of Jeremy Lloyd's poems Captain Beaky, and singing the title song from the associated album.

    Early life

    Michell was born in Adelaide, and brought up in Warnertown, near Port Pirie. His parents were Joseph, a cabinet-maker, and Alice (née Aslat). Educated at Port Pirie High School, Adelaide Teachers' College and Adelaide University, he began his career as an art teacher and made his professional acting debut in 1947 in the comedy Lover’s Leap, by Bill Daily, at Adelaide's Playbox Theatre. He then worked in radio for ABC in Adelaide. In 1949, he moved to Britain to study at the Old Vic Theatre School.

    Career

    Michell joined the Young Vic theatre company and made his first appearance in London by 1951. An early role there was Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice. His first London musical was And So to Bed, playing King Charles II. With the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Company in 1952–1953, he toured in Australia. Then, at Stratford-upon-Avon, he appeared in a

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