Sullivan Stapleton

Sullivan Stapleton

Born: June 14, 1977
in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Sullivan Stapleton (born 14 June 1977)] is an Australian actor who is best known for his roles in the SKY (BSkyB)/Cinemax/HBO television series Strike Back and the 2010 Sundance Film Festival selection Animal Kingdom.

Stapleton played the lead role, Greek leader Themistocles, in the film 300: Rise of an Empire (2014). He was honored on 24 October 2013 with a Breakthrough Award at an exclusive Australians in Film Benefit Dinner held in Los Angeles.

Movies for Sullivan Stapleton...

Title: After the Verdict
Character: Daniel
Released: August 10, 2022
Type: TV
As they return to normal life, four very different Australians who have just finished jury duty on a high-profile murder trial begin to question their verdict and take matters into their own hands, investigating the murder themselves as they juggle the pressures and impacts on their personal lives.
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Everything I Ever Wanted To Tell My Daughter About Men
Title: Everything I Ever Wanted To Tell My Daughter About Men
Character: Icabod
Released: May 18, 2022
Type: Movie
A woman tells her daughter about every man she’s ever been with – in the hope her daughter won’t make the same mistakes.
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Title: Fires
Character: Doug
Released: September 26, 2021
Type: TV
Inspired by true events, the story of everyday Australians at the front line of the devastating fires of the 2019-2020 Australian summer.
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A Sunburnt Christmas
Title: A Sunburnt Christmas
Character: Dingo
Released: December 11, 2020
Type: Movie
A single mother and her kids are doing it tough on their outback farm - until a runaway criminal dressed as Santa Claus crashes into their property, and their lives.
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Ride Like a Girl
Title: Ride Like a Girl
Character: Darren Weir
Released: September 26, 2019
Type: Movie
The story of Michelle Payne, the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup.
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Renegades
Title: Renegades
Character: Matt Barnes
Released: August 21, 2017
Type: Movie
In the midst of the Balkan wars, a squad of Navy SEALs attempts to unravel a long-forgotten mystery after discovering an enormous treasure trove hidden at the bottom of a lake in Serbia.
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Cut Snake
Title: Cut Snake
Character: Pommie
Released: September 24, 2015
Type: Movie
Young, charismatic, and hardworking, Sparra Farrell seems to be sailing into a happy, respectable life. He has a solid job and an adorable fiancée named Paula, and already owns a modest house in the country outside Melbourne. The only odd thing is that Sparra says precious little about his past — but that past is about to catch up with him, and wrest control of his present.
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Title: Blindspot
Character: Kurt Weller
Released: September 21, 2015
Type: TV
A vast international plot explodes when a beautiful Jane Doe is discovered naked in Times Square, completely covered in mysterious, intricate tattoos with no memory of who she is or how she got there. But there's one tattoo that is impossible to miss: the name of FBI agent Kurt Weller, emblazoned across her back. "Jane," Agent Weller and the rest of the FBI quickly realize that each mark on her body is a crime to solve, leading them closer to the truth about her identity and the mysteries to be revealed.
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Kill Me Three Times
Title: Kill Me Three Times
Character: Nathan Webb
Released: April 10, 2015
Type: Movie
While on a seemingly routine job, a jaded hit man discovers that he's not the only one with his target in the crosshairs.
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300: Rise of an Empire
Title: 300: Rise of an Empire
Character: Themistocles
Released: March 5, 2014
Type: Movie
Greek general Themistocles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the war. Themistocles faces the massive invading Persian forces led by mortal-turned-god, Xerxes and Artemesia, the vengeful commander of the Persian navy.
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Gangster Squad
Title: Gangster Squad
Character: Jack Whalen
Released: January 9, 2013
Type: Movie
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has his way — every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop… except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara and Jerry Wooters who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart.
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The Hunter
Title: The Hunter
Character: Doug
Released: October 6, 2011
Type: Movie
Martin, a mercenary, is sent from Europe by an anonymous biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger.
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Title: Underbelly Files: Infiltration
Character: Colin McLaren
Released: February 14, 2011
Type: TV
"Infiltration" tells the true story of Victoria (Australia) detective Colin McLaren, who posed as a shady art dealer for 18 months and infiltrated the Australian branch of the 'Ndrangheta. It resulted in the biggest win of his career, seeing 11 of Australia's most villainous Mafiosi sent to prison. Valentino del Toro and Emma de Clario play their mafia family roles with truth and power
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Underbelly Files: Infiltration
Title: Underbelly Files: Infiltration
Character: Colin McLaren
Released: February 14, 2011
Type: Movie
It tells the true story of Victorian detective Colin McLaren who posed as a shady art dealer and infiltrated the Australian branch of the Calabrian Mafia.
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Centre Place
Title: Centre Place
Character: James Ballintyne
Released: July 27, 2010
Type: Movie
Centre Place is a sophisticated romantic drama featuring Melbourne's style, fashion and culture. Set in the very European boutiques, cafes and bars of Melbourne's inner lane-ways the film focuses on the highs and lows of aspiring artist Lizzie Baxter. Lizzie is a lost soul living in denial. At 28, she would prefer to stay in a shallow relationship than take charge of her own life. This is Lizzie's unique story but also the story of an entire generation; living in limbo and not ready to grow up.
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Animal Kingdom
Title: Animal Kingdom
Character: Craig Cody
Released: June 3, 2010
Type: Movie
Joshua “J” is taken in by his extended family after his mother dies of an overdose. The clan, ruled by J’s scheming grandmother, is heavily involved in criminal activities, and J is soon indoctrinated into their way of life. But J is given a chance to take another path when a cop seeks to help him.
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Title: Strike Back
Character: Sgt. Damien Scott
Released: May 5, 2010
Type: TV
The series follows John Porter, a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back into service by Section 20, a fictional branch of the Secret Intelligence Service.
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Title: Lowdown
Character: Oliver Barry
Released: April 21, 2010
Type: TV
Lowdown shines a torch on the life of a man whose job it is to feed the public's insatiable appetite for celebrity gossip. Alex Burchill, the author of the Lowdown column which appears in the once great but now ailing tabloid newspaper – the Sunday Sun. Each week Alex interviews celebrities for his column, and each week at least one of those celebrities ruins his week. Sometimes the celebrity gets drunk and punches Alex out. Sometimes the celebrity gets him arrested. Usually the celebrity sleeps with his girlfriend, Rita. It may not sound like much of a life, but it invariably leads to great copy and the readers love it. In fact, it's the only thing standing between the Sunday Sun and oblivion.
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The Odds
Title: The Odds
Character: Wade
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
A couple of Las Vegas police officers live a life almost as wild as the crimes they investigate.
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Title: Carla Cametti PD
Character: Matt Brodie
Released: January 8, 2009
Type: TV
Carla Cametti PD is a six-part Australian television crime series that was announced in April 2008 and first screened on SBS TV on 8 January 2009. The series of six episodes is produced by Buon Giorno Productions Pty Ltd. The show revolves around a young female Italian-Australian private detective named Carla Cametti who is investigating her own mafia family. Carla is played by Diana Glenn. The DVD has been released in Region 4 only.
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Title: Rush
Released: September 2, 2008
Type: TV
They are trained to be smarter, tactically superior and technologically advantaged - Melbourne's answer for a cutting edge trend in policing worldwide. Rush was an Australian television police drama that first screened on Network Ten in September 2008. Set in Melbourne, Victoria, it focuses on the members of a Police Tactical Response team. It is produced by John Edwards and Southern Star. On 10 November 2011, as with Network Ten setting out DVD promotions for the finale of season 4, David Knox of TV Tonight has announced that Rush would not return after 4 years, as the next episode would be its last.
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Title: Canal Road
Character: Jack Logan
Released: April 16, 2008
Type: TV
Canal Road is an Australian television drama series on the Nine Network. The series was produced in-house, under producer Susan Bower, in collaboration with writers Sarah Smith, John Ridley and Dave Warner, and directed by Kevin Carlin. It was filmed at Channel Nine’s GTV Studio 11 and on location in and around Melbourne. The series reportedly cost A$10 million to produce. The 13-part series went to air from 16 April 2008. The series debuted to mixed critical reception and only average ratings, which were further eroded when the series was moved to a later timeslot. Nine removed Canal Road from its schedules after the seventh episode, which drew in only 360,000 viewers; however the eighth episode was still made available online. Nine aired the remaining episodes during August and December 2008. Canal Road was released on DVD on 4 August 2008 in Australia.
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Title: Underbelly
Character: Pat Barbaro
Released: February 13, 2008
Type: TV
Underbelly is an Australian television true crime-drama series, each series is a stand alone story based on real-life events.
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Title: Satisfaction
Character: Josh
Released: December 5, 2007
Type: TV
Set in and around 232, an up-market city brothel, Satisfaction reveals the world of five high class escorts and their manager as they juggle the pressures of their private lives with their secret profession.
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December Boys
Title: December Boys
Character: Fearless
Released: September 14, 2007
Type: Movie
For many years, four teenage orphans at an Australian outback convent have watched their younger comrades find new parents, and realize that they may never be adopted. The Reverend Mother sends the four boys away on a seaside vacation, where they meet Teresa and Fearless, a couple who would make perfect parents. The youths compete with one another to be the one Teresa and Fearless decide to adopt.
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The Condemned
Title: The Condemned
Character: Special Agent Wilkins
Released: April 27, 2007
Type: Movie
Jack Conrad is awaiting the death penalty in a corrupt Central American prison. He is "purchased" by a wealthy television producer and taken to a desolate island where he must fight to the death against nine other condemned killers from all corners of the world, with freedom going to the sole survivor.
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Little Oberon
Title: Little Oberon
Character: Martin
Released: September 18, 2005
Type: Movie
The sleepy town of Little Oberon is woken with a jolt when tempestuous Georgie Green returns after a 15 year absence, with a difficult teenage daughter, to care for her ailing but eccentric mother.
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Everything Goes
Title: Everything Goes
Released: June 14, 2004
Type: Movie
A young couple offer to buy the furniture of a middle-aged man whose wife just left him - but they end up with more than they bargained for. Hugo Weaving, Abbie Cornish and Sullivan Stapleton star in an adaptation of a Raymond Carver story.
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Darkness Falls
Title: Darkness Falls
Character: Officer Matt Henry
Released: January 24, 2003
Type: Movie
A vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now grown up, who has survived her before.
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Title: MDA
Character: Ben Quilty
Released: July 23, 2002
Type: TV
MDA is an Australian television series that aired between 2002 and 2005 on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It concerned the day-to-day operation of legal firm MDA, which specialised in medical defence.
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Title: The Secret Life of Us
Character: Justin Davies
Released: July 16, 2001
Type: TV
The Secret Life of Us is an Australian television drama series about the lives of 20-30 somethings living in the early 2000s.
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City Loop
Title: City Loop
Character: Don
Released: June 17, 2000
Type: Movie
City Loop tells the story of six young people who work in a pizzeria, as they struggle to comes to terms with boredom, fear of responsibility and pizzas to go
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Green Sails
Title: Green Sails
Character: Infante
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
When ambitious CCT exec Will Patterson uncovers a corporate conspiracy, his life spirals out of control. With an unlikely ally and beautiful crusader to guide him through his struggle, he travels to the jungles of Indonesia where a tribe--wrongly forced off their land by CCT--and the corporation clash. No matter which side Will chooses--with so many lives on the line, his decision is destined to be a deadly one.
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Witch Hunt
Title: Witch Hunt
Character: Craig Thomas
Released: May 2, 1999
Type: Movie
An infant girl named Hannah is abducted by her grandmother Barbara Thomas. Hannah's father David Overton, convinced that Barbara is the head of a coven of witches, inaugurates a desperate nationwide search for his missing daughter. However, David may have a sinister agenda of his own, as indicated by the fact that his wife recently died under mysterious circumstances.
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Amy
Title: Amy
Character: Wayne Lassiter
Released: August 27, 1998
Type: Movie
Amy's father, Franco, was a popular rock musician accidentally electrocuted while performing on stage. The psychological trauma leaves Amy mute and deaf. So the 8-year-old is brought by her mother, Tanya, to Melbourne to diagnose the reasons for her continued silence.
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River Street
Title: River Street
Character: Chris
Released: July 17, 1997
Type: Movie
Ben, an arrogant, hustling property developer is wrongly arrested and things from bad to worse when he accidentally punches a policeman at the station. Sentenced to community service at a local day centre, Ben's influence with a young tearaway forces him to question his values and he learns to see life from a different angle when he falls in love with Wendy, the centre's formidable and devoted manager...
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Title: Halifax f.p.
Character: Hamish
Released: October 9, 1994
Type: TV
Halifax f.p. is an Australian television crime series produced by Nine Network from 1994 to 2002. The series stars Rebecca Gibney as Doctor Jane Halifax, a forensic psychiatrist investigating cases involving the mental state of suspects or victims. The series is set in Melbourne. The producers of the film were Beyond Simpson Le Mesurier; Australian Film Finance Corporation and aired on the Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd 21 Episodes of 90 and 102 minutes each were produced, and the series has screened in more than 60 countries. The budget for each episode was an average of $1.3 million. Funding came in part from the Australian Film Finance Corporation and Film Victoria.
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Baby Bath Massacre
Title: Baby Bath Massacre
Character: Adrian
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
A combination of action, romance and comedy, Baby Bath Massacre tells the story of a girl and boy who take on a challenge. We see their journey as they overcome major obstacles and finally achieve success. An uplifting story of success and achievement told in an offbeat, gritty way.
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Title: Blue Heelers
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: TV
Blue Heelers was one of Australia's longest running weekly television drama series. Blue Heelers is a police drama series set in the fictional country town of Mount Thomas. Under the watchful eye of Tom Croydon (John Wood), the men and women of Mount Thomas Police Station fight crime, resolve disputes and tackle the social issues of the day. We watch their successes and their failures and learn to grow with them and their loved ones as the heart of the series develops.