Christopher Stollery | |
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Born | 12 August 1965 |
Other names | Chris Stollery |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1984- |
Christopher Stollery (born 12 August 1965) is an Australian television actor. He graduated from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1987.[1] He is known for his role on State Coroner as Sgt. Dermot McLeod.[2] He has had a leading role on The Flying Doctors[1] and a recurring role on Sea Patrol.[3] He has also had roles on and A Country Practice,[1] All Saints, White Collar Blue and Water Rats. He played the role of Lieutenant Nick Homer in the film A Divided Heart (2005).
Stollery has a lengthy stage career[4] including productions of Hamlet[5] where he played Hamlet,[6] Romeo and Juliet[7] where The Sunday Age's Ken Healy stated "most outstanding are Christopher Stollery as the swaggering Capulet thug, Tybalt".[8] and Macbeth[9] Of which Leonard Radic of The Age states "Christopher Stollery produces plenty of sound and fury, but little else, as Macduff."[10]
Stollery created the short film Dik which won best screenplay at 2011's Flickerfest and the best comedy award at Aspen Shortsfest.[11][12] He had previously created Prick, another short film that made the Flickerfest finals.[13]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Sadlier, Kevin (12 August 1990), "A career that's taking off", Sun Herald
- ^ Longworth, Ken (17 May 2001), "Bard habits hard to break", Newcastle Herald
- ^ Idato, Michael (25 June 2007), "Coast and crew", Sydney Morning Herald
- ^ Christopher Stollery, AusStage
- ^ Hamlet, AusStage
- ^ Healy, Ken (11 April 1993), "Play on power or lack of it - Stage", Sun Herald
- ^ Romeo and Juliet, AusStage
- ^ Healy, Ken (3 May 1993), "Breathing new life into love and death", The Sunday Age)
- ^ Macbeth, AusStage
- ^ Radic, Leonard (24 May 1994), "Shakespeare gets lost in space", The Age
- ^ Keys, Vanessa (15 November 2011), "Stollery has last laugh - RED-CARPET SUCCESS PLUS A DATE WITH CATE BLANCHETT", The Daily Telegraph
- ^ Bates, Rob (11 May 2011), "Top award for Dik", Sydney Central Courier
- ^ Hessey, Ruth (21 February 1997), "Reel cheap ... - Reel keen ... - Reel style - Tropfest 1997", Sydney Morning Herald
External links
[edit]- Christopher Stollery at IMDb
- Biographical cuttings on Christopher Stollery, actor, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals at the National Library of Australia.