Gulliver McGrath

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Gulliver McGrath
Born Gulliver William[citation needed] McGrath
August 15th 1998 (age 17)
Melbourne, Australia[1]
Occupation Actor

Gulliver William McGrath (born August 15, 1998) is an Australian child actor.

Life and career

McGrath played Charlie in the Australian crime series Rush.[2] He also starred as the title character in the Melbourne Theatre Company production Poor Boy alongside Guy Pearce and Abi Tucker.[3][4]

Recently, McGrath portrayed David Collins in the 2012 feature film Dark Shadows, which earned him a 2013 Young Artist Award nomination as Best Supporting Young Actor in a Feature Film.[5] He portrayed Tad Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012). Gulliver will be playing the teenage version of Jerry Hickfang in "The Voices". The Voices is currently filming. He was born and raised in Melbourne, Australia. He then moved to Birmingham, U.K, and was raised there. His mother, Heidi Chapman, is a neuroscientist, and his father, Craig, is an anaesthetist.[6] He is the older brother of actors Zen and Winta McGrath.[7] 2014 portrayed Jerry Hickfang in the Comedy thriller The Voices, which was played as elder person by Ryan Reynolds.[8]

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes
2009 The Wake Charles Billed as Gully McGrath
2009 The Loved Ones 8-year-old Keir Willis Billed as Gully McGrath
2010 The Long Night Luke Short film
2011 Hugo Young Tabard
2012 Dark Shadows David Collins Billed as Gully McGrath

First Major Role

2012 Lincoln Tad Lincoln
2015 The Voices Teenage Jerry

Television

Year Title Role Notes
2008 Rush Charlie Series 1, episode 12

Stage

Year Title Role Notes
2008 Poor Boy Main character

Further reading

  • "Young Children As Active Citizens" edited by Glenda Mac Naughton, Patrick Hughes and Kylie Smith, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2008). Gulliver co-authored a chapter in this book with his brother, Zen McGrath.

References

  1. http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/movies/hes-13-from-brunswick-and-hes-worked-with-scorsese-burton-and-spielberg-20120503-1y1w6.html
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  6. http://www.thecityweekly.com.au/news/local/news/general/gulli
  7. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3164335/bio#trivia
  8. The Voices

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