'Super Trouper' - Actor, Nicholas Eadie




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Summary: Nicholas Eadie's resume boasts an impressive list of high-profile television production that we affectionately embrace as key moments in Australian television consumption. He gained success and fame in Australian television series' such as Cop Shop, The Henderson Kids, A Country Practice and Medivac. He won The Australian Film Institute's Best Actor in a Mini-Series award in 1987 for Vietnam, in which he co-starred with Nicole Kidman. He played a dashing horseman in The Man From Snowy River 2 and was nominated again for his portrayal of World War II Academy Award-winning cameraman Damien Parer in John Duigan's Fragments of War, and in 2002 for Halifax f.p. He is the son of ABC radio announcer Mervyn Eadie, and is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art. Nicholas Eadie has worked with all the major Australian theatre companies with over 45 credits to his name. He has appeared in leading roles in plays as diverse as Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie as The Gentleman Caller and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Brick. He has played John Proctor in three separate productions of The Crucible. And partied hard as Don in David Williamson's Don's Party. In Sydney's Botanical Gardens, he performed for three seasons as Oberon/Theseus in A Midsummer Night's Dream. He played Sam in the original cast of Mamma Mia! in Australia for two years. He has been in the world premiere productions of Michael Gow's Furious, Hannie Raison's Two Brothers, Tommy Murphy's Holding The Man and the highly acclaimed Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America by Stephen Sewell. It is a career of many triumphs but it has not been without its challenges. Nick talks candidly about the work he has navigated and reflects on a career that has often rewarded and sometimes disappointed. Here's my chat with the charming Nicholas Eadie.