Learn About David Wenham

By Elizabeth R. Chan


David Wenham came into this world on September 21, 1965. He is a well known Australian actor who has been in numerous television shows, films and theatre productions. He is the son of Kath and Bill Wenham and was born in Sydney, Australia. David is the youngest in the household. David Wenham has one older brother and five older sisters. Before becoming a popular actor, he worked well as a bingo caller and insurance sales person.

His ability revealed itself even as a kid, he seemed to be the class clown for creating funny characters in school and he used to put on living room shows for his family at home. He went after his acting at the Nepean Theatre School and began his profession in well known TV episode, Sons and daughters. He then was a working actor in several Aussie series such as A Country Practice, Police Rescue in the 90s. He gained several nominations from the Australian Film Institute Award regarding his role in Rowan's Wood films The Boys.

Among his well known part includes Faramir in The Lord of The Rings Trilogy. He was picked as a cast on this movie because he looked like his on-screen brother, Sean Bean. David Wenham remarks, both of them have big noses. Even though he only appeared two times in Lord of the Rings, he has been voted as best picture nominee three years successively.

His role being Driver Dan, in the 1998 Australian TV show Seachange has made him as a sex image, although he doesn't prefer considering himself that way. He didn't sign the legal contract for the next season as a result, the writers written him apart. At one point, he was selected as Australia's sexiest man alive.

When he was in Hollywood, his profile continued to rise when he worked as Hugh Jackman's sidekick in the vampire action movie Van Helsing in 2004. After that he went back to Australia in 2005 where he landed a role as an arrogant and brutal lawyer in an award winning show The proposition. He also became a leading man where he gave a moving performance as an honest man supporting his family after losing a job in Three Dollars.

David Wenham began training on the gym for his Spartan warrior role on the popular film 300 around 2007. It had been an adaptation in the graphic novel of Frank Miller concerning the famous combat of Thermopylae in four hundred and eighty BC. This turned out to be a global smash hit that showed his position in Hollywood. However the actor still came back home to star in a very villainous character with Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman in 08 film Australia.




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