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Nathan Phillips (actor)

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Nathan Phillips
OccupationActor
Years active1999–present

Nathan Phillips is an Australian actor.

Life and career

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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.[1] After the success of this film, Phillips moved to Los Angeles, where he was based for several years.[2]

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.[3] 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.[4] 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.[5] In addition to acting, Phillips was a producer of 2019's Blood Vessel.

Filmography

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Film

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Year Title Role Notes
2001 Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story Hugh TV movie
2002 Australian Rules Gary "Blacky" Black Feature film
Warriors of Virtue: The Return to Tao Ryan Jeffers Feature film
2003 Take Away Dave Feature film
2004 Under the Radar Brandon Feature film
One Perfect Day Trig Feature film
2005 Wolf Creek Ben Mitchell Feature film
You and Your Stupid Mate Philip Feature film
2006 Snakes on a Plane Sean Jones Feature film
2007 West Jerry Feature film
Redline Carlo Feature film
2008 Surfer, Dude Baker Smith Feature film
Dying Breed Jack Feature film
2009 Balibo Malcolm Rennie Feature film
2010 Summer Coda Joey Feature film
Quit Benji
2012 Chernobyl Diaries Michael Feature film
2014 These Final Hours James Feature film
Tom Wills Tom Wills Feature film
2019 Blood Vessel Sinclair Feature film
2021 The Devil Below Cain Feature film

Television

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Year Title Role Notes
1999 Neighbours John "Teabag" Teasdale TV series
2001 The Saddle Club Red O'Malley #1 TV series
2014 The Bridge Jack Dobbs TV series
2016 Hunters Flynn Carroll TV series
2020 Halifax: Retribution TV series

Awards

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References

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  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)
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