| Ben Winspear | |
| Birth Place: | Wagga Wagga |
| Occupation: | Actor |
| Partner: | Marta Dusseldorp |
| Children: | 2 |
Ben Winspear is an Australian actor and director.[1] He won a 2009 Helmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play having previously been nominated for the same category in 2003. For his performance in the TV series My Place he was nominated for the 2010 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actor in a Television Drama.[2]
Screen roles he has played includes the TV series A Place to Call Home.[3] and [4] and films The Babadook[5] and Bad Girl.[6] He also appears in Bay of Fires which was co-produced by Archipelago Productions, a company he co-founded with his wife Marta Dusseldorp.[7]
Winspear has a long theatre career including Baghdad Wedding for Company B,[8] for which he won the Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play,[9] and Great Expectations at the Drama Theatre (Sydney Opera House),[10] for which he was nominated for the same award.[11] He appeared with Marta Dusseldorp in Joanna Murray-Smith's adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's 1973 film Scenes from a Marriage for Queensland Theatre in 2017.[12]
| 2023 | Bay of Fires (TV series) | Rowan | 2 episodes | |
| 2020-21 | Rosehaven | Sam | 3 episodes | |
| 2021 | Finding Jedda | Short | ||
| 2017 | Remembering Agatha | Bill | Short | |
| Pile | Father | Short | ||
| The Suitor | Mr Sappleton | Short | ||
| 2016 | Bad Girl | Peter Anderson | ||
| Perry | Ben's Mate | Short | ||
| Emerald City Live | Mike | |||
| 2014-15 | A Place to Call Home (TV series) | René Nordmann | 11 episodes | |
| 2015 | House of Hancock | Con Heliotis | 1 episode | |
| 2015 | Breeding in Captivity | Andrew | Film | |
| 2014 | Black Comedy | Guest | 2 episodes | |
| Old School | Rodger | 1 episode | ||
| Rake (Australian TV series) | Sebastian Strong | 3 episodes | ||
| The Babadook | Oskar | |||
| 2013 | The Last Goodbye | Joel | ||
| 2012 | Riccohet | Oliver | Short | |
| Underbelly[13] | Tim Browne | 8 episodes | ||
| 2011 | Loveless | Max | Short | |
| Crownies | Dr Preston | 1 episode | ||
| Panic at Rock Island | Baz Gaha | TV Movie | ||
| 2009 | My Place | Michaelis | 2 episodes | |
| 2008 | Every Other Weekend | Bart | Short |