Steve Le Marquand

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Steve Le Marquand is an Australian born actor, known both locally and internationally for his film and stage work.

Prior to acting, Le Marquand motorcycled his way around Australia, working on various cattle stations, docks, pubs, barges and melon farms. He then studied performing arts at Penrith in Sydney’s outer west at the Uni of Western Sydney (Theatre Nepean) before stumbling across an agent in Penny Williams in 1992.

His first job was a TV commercial for Arnott’s Ruffles which was banned a day after its release for sacrilege. His second job was on the Australian TV series Police Rescue and since then Steve has played an assortment of thugs, baddies, larrikins and cops (both good and bad) in a number of shows, including All Saints, Farscape, Crash Palace, Young Lions, Blue Heelers, Water Rats, Big Sky, GP, Murder Call, Home and Away, Wildside, and the ABC mini-series A Difficult Woman.

On film he has featured as a tall thug in Jeremy Sims’ Last Train to Freo (for which he was nominated for Best Lead Actor at both the Australian Film Institute and Film Critic’s Circle Awards); a WWII digger in Kokoda; a larrikin Aussie climber in Martin Campbell’s Vertical Limit; a clumsy, shotty-loving bank robber in Gregor Jordan’s Two Hands; a moustachioed cop in David Caesar’s Mullet; a weird-arsed beachcomber in Lost Things and an all-singing-all-dancing sailor in Disney’s remake of South Pacific.

He won the Nicole Kidman Best Actor Award at Tropfest ‘96 for (his own) short film Cliché, and was also the lead actor in the Tropfest ‘05 hit, Bomb.

Le Marquand has been seen on stage in Paul, The Spook, Buried Child and Waiting For Godot for Company B Belvoir; Holy Day for the Sydney Theatre Company, Don’s Party for the Melbourne Theatre Co and STC; Songket and The Return (which was the stage version of Last Train to Freo) for Griffin Theatre; and was recently appointed a member of the STC’s Actors Company (recently appeared in Tales From The Vienna Woods in his first show with the Company).

Le Marquand co-wrote, produced, directed and starred in the hugely successful theatre production He Died With A Felafel In His Hand, which had its humble beginnings at Rozelle’s Bridge Hotel in 1995 before running for several years in Melbourne, Perth, Hobart, Brisbane, Edinburgh, Toronto and New York (not to be confused with the film of the same name, made by a Melbourne based video-clip director)

Steve lives in Sydney with his partner Pippa Grandison and takes his cricket and rugby league quite seriously.