Mark Leonard Winter
Writer | Director
Mark Leonard Winter is a double Helpmann Award winning actor, writer, and director.
His debut feature film as writer/director, The Rooster, was awarded the DGA Award for Best Debut Feature Film, two ACS awards for Cinematography, the AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actor for Hugo Weaving's performance, and it was also nominated for Best Indie Film, Best Costume Design and Best Actor at the AACTAs. The screenplay was also nominated for an AWGIE. The Rooster premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival in its Bright Horizons Competition and then appeared as a finalist in the Cinéfest Oz Film Prize. It had its international premiere at the Santa Barbara Film Festival also in competition. It also screened at SXSW Sydney, Adelaide Film Festival, Darwin Film Festival, Brisbane Film Festival and had a nationwide theatrical release through Bonsai Films.
As an actor, Mark started the theatre collective ‘The Black Lung’ with fellow theatre makers including Thomas M. Wright (Acute Misfortune, The Stranger), creating numerous independent works. He co-wrote and starred in Malthouse Theatre’s multi-award-winning smash- hit, Thyestes directed by Simon Stone (The Daughter, The Dig).
Notable theatre credits include Suddenly Last Summer, Chimerica and King Lear for Sydney Theatre Company, for which he won the Best Supporting Actor Helpmann Award, Miss Julie and Birdland for Melbourne Theatre Company for which he won the best Actor Helpmann Award, The Master and Margarita for Belvoir Street Theatre, and he will shortly star as Stanley Kowalski in Melbourne Theatre Company's A Streetcar Named Desire.
His feature film credits include Elvis, The Dressmaker, Balibo, Healing and most recently lead roles in Disclosure, Measure For Measure opposite Hugo Weaving and Escape From Pretoria opposite Daniel Radcliffe.
Mark worked with Jane Campion on Top of the Lake: China Girl and was one of the leads in Pine Gap for Netflix/ ABC. Most recently he appeared in Eden for Stan, The Newsreader and Fires for the ABC.
He is a 2017 recipient of the highly prestigious Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship awarded for outstanding talent and exceptional artistic courage: one of the few actors to have ever been given this honour.
Mark was one of the creators and directors of the entirely improvised show The Blind Date Project, directing Seinfeld star Jason Alexander in the L.A. season, alongside co-creator and actor Bojana Novakovic. He has also directed a music video for Helpmann Award Winner Esther Hannaford and was one of the directors and co- writers/lead actors in the award-winning web series The Greatest Love of All.
Mark is represented for acting by Lisa Mann at LMCM.
For enquiries regarding Mark Leonard Winter please contact us via email or on (02) 9319 7199