Simon Maiden

Simon Maiden


in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Simon Maiden is an Australian actor. He was born in Ballarat, Victoria to parents Stuart (a teacher) and Pamela (a theatre manager) and is of Scottish heritage. A graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) he has appeared in the feature films The Dressmaker, The Great Raid, Romulus My Father and The Killer Elite. On television he has portrayed Winston Churchill in Deadline Gallipoli, Sen. Graham Richardson in the telemovie Hawke and featured in Jack Irish, Wentworth, Newtons Law, Tangle, The Doctor Blake Mysteries and many more.

Movies for Simon Maiden...

Sleeping Dogs
Title: Sleeping Dogs
Character: Eddie Finn
Released: March 21, 2024
Type: Movie
Roy Freeman, an ex-homicide detective with a fractured memory, is forced to revisit a case he can't remember. As a man's life hangs in the balance on death row, Freeman must piece together the brutal evidence from a decade-old murder investigation, uncovering a sinister web of buried secrets and betrayals linking to his past. With only instincts to trust, he faces a chilling truth - sometimes, it's best to let sleeping dogs lie.
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Title: High Country
Character: Russell Shanks
Released: March 19, 2024
Type: TV
When detective Andrea 'Andie' Whitford is transferred to the Victorian High Country, she is thrust into a baffling mystery of five missing persons who have vanished into the wilderness. Through an edge-of-the-seat, high-stakes investigation, Andie uncovers a complex web involving murder, deceit and revenge.
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Blue Canaries
Title: Blue Canaries
Character: Benji
Released: December 24, 2023
Type: Movie
When a desperate kid goes on the run, a probationary officer and her senior constable have one night to track him down before he throws his life away.
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Title: The Newsreader
Character: Stephen Bramhall
Released: August 15, 2021
Type: TV
An unconventional relationship in a world on the cusp of change; a star newsreader and an ambitious reporter join forces in a ruthless 1986 newsroom, as events unfold that will change their lives.
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Upgrade
Title: Upgrade
Character: Stem (voice)
Released: May 31, 2018
Type: Movie
A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that he also has superhuman strength and agility — skills he uses to seek revenge against the thugs who destroyed his life.
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Title: Jack Irish
Character: Mark
Released: February 11, 2016
Type: TV
Jack Irish is a man getting his life back together again. A former criminal lawyer whose world imploded, he now spends his days as a part-time investigator, debt collector, apprentice cabinet maker, punter and sometime lover – the complete man really. An expert in finding those who don’t want to be found – dead or alive, Jack helps out his mates while avoiding the past. That is until the past finds him.
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Love Notes
Title: Love Notes
Character: Spencer
Released: September 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Two blind neighbors discover each other through a shared musical interlude that shapes their path to happiness.
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Title: Fat Tony & Co
Character: Dave Dalton
Released: February 23, 2014
Type: TV
The true story of Tony Mokbel; how he grew entangled with the country’s most notorious underworld figures, how he built his massive fortune, and how he became a fugitive on a yacht bound for Greece, desperate to escape mounting criminal law battles.
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Title: Wentworth
Character: Gary Tucker
Released: May 1, 2013
Type: TV
Bea Smith is locked up while awaiting trial for the attempted murder of her husband and must learn how life works in prison. A modern adaptation and sequel of the iconic Prisoner series.
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Title: Mr & Mrs Murder
Character: Roy Palmer
Released: February 20, 2013
Type: TV
Charlie and Nicola Buchanan are crime scene cleaners whose unique quirks and talents solve the most baffling murder mysteries.
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Title: The Doctor Blake Mysteries
Character: Joe Springer
Released: February 1, 2013
Type: TV
Dr Lucien Blake left Ballarat as a young man. But now he finds himself returning to take over not only his dead father's medical practice, but also his on-call role as the town's police surgeon, only to find change is afoot, nothing is sacred, and no one is safe.
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Hawke
Title: Hawke
Character: Graham Richardson
Released: July 18, 2010
Type: Movie
The story of Bob Hawke - Australia's most loved Prime Minister as he faces his greatest challenge: a battle within his own party. As he fights for his life, we discover his incredible transformation from a hard-drinking womanising trade union leader into a visionary world leader. For a man who once sacrificed his family to his job, he must now rely solely on his friendships and allegiances to defeat his challenger and remain in power.
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Scorched
Title: Scorched
Character: Teddy
Released: November 8, 2009
Type: Movie
In a climate change ravaged world in 2012, after 240 days without rain Sydney has only two weeks of water left. When the city is then ringed by severe bushfires, the question becomes, how do you fight fire when you have no water?
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Title: Dirt Game
Character: Zac
Released: April 19, 2009
Type: TV
Enter the dramatic and dangerous world of Australia's oldest and riskiest pursuit – mining. A mismatched team strive to save a struggling but proud Australian mining company, and in doing so, must overcome their own prejudice and fears while facing life-threatening situations – not only for themselves but also for the workers they employ.
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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: Underbelly
Character: Gareth Forrester
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: City Homicide
Character: Troy Lucas
Released: August 27, 2007
Type: TV
City Homicide follows a group of detectives in the Homicide department of Melbourne's Metropolitan Police Headquarters.
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The Great Raid
Title: The Great Raid
Character: Father McPherson
Released: August 12, 2005
Type: Movie
As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.
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Son of the Mask
Title: Son of the Mask
Character: Animator
Released: February 18, 2005
Type: Movie
Tim Avery, an aspiring cartoonist, finds himself in a predicament when his dog stumbles upon the mask of Loki. Then after conceiving an infant son "born of the mask", he discovers just how looney child raising can be.
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The Postcard Bandit
Title: The Postcard Bandit
Character: Pritchard
Released: June 1, 2003
Type: Movie
The story of notorious Australian bank robber Brendan Abbott, who according to the myth, sent postcards to authorities hot on his trail while on the run across the country.