John Howard

Known for ActingBorn 1952-10-22 (age 73)Corowa, New South Wales, Australia

Has a sister, Jan. Grew up in Warrawee, NSW Australia and went to Knox Grammar School. Dropped out of medicine and law at university. Graduated in 1978 from NIDA with Penny Cook, Robert Grubb. Played leading roles from 1981 to 2012 in various plays. Won a Critics Circle award in 1992 for "The Crucible" and "Mongrels". Twice won Variety Entertainer of the Year (1992,2006). Nominated for an AFI award for "Joh's Jury" and nine times since.Silver logie winner for "Seachange" (2001) . Associate Director of the Sydney Theatre Company from 1992 to 1995. Launched the Australian People's Theatre (associated with the Sydney Theatre Company). Has a daughter born in 1996 and a son from a previous marriage. He is most famous for SeaChange (1998) and All Saints (2008). Ambassador for Variety (The Children's Charity) and Australian Mitochondrial Disease Foundation ( AMDF ).Read more

Movies & web series

Wolfram

Always Greener

The Road from Coorain

Gary's Story

Mad Max: Fury Road

Bump

A Town Like Alice

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

The Games

Colin from Accounts

SeaChange

Soul Mates

The Girl from Tomorrow

Janet King

Last Cab to Darwin

Joh's Jury

Water Under the Bridge

The Job

Evil Angels

The Flying Doctors

The Highest Honour

The Man Who Sued God

Blue Heelers

Riley

Japanese Story

Get Krack!n

Water Rats

All Saints

Dating the Enemy

Bush Christmas

Strikebound

The Merger

unINDIAN

The Club

Razorback

A Matter Of Principle

Capone

Jindabyne

Blackrock

Jessica

Pacific Blue

Frontier

Young Einstein

Never Tell Me Never

Take Away

In a Savage Land

A Man's Gotta Do

Around the World in Eighty Ways