John Howard

Known for ActingBorn 1952-10-22 (age 74)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

Always Greener

The Road from Coorain

The Games

Gary's Story

Mad Max: Fury Road

Colin from Accounts

Bump

A Town Like Alice

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

SeaChange

Soul Mates

The Girl from Tomorrow

Janet King

Last Cab to Darwin

Joh's Jury

The Job

Water Under the Bridge

Evil Angels

Blue Heelers

Get Krack!n

The Flying Doctors

The Highest Honour

Japanese Story

The Man Who Sued God

Dating the Enemy

All Saints

Water Rats

Riley

Strikebound

The Merger

unINDIAN

Bush Christmas

The Club

Razorback

A Matter Of Principle

Capone

Blackrock

Jindabyne

Jessica

Wolfram

Pacific Blue

Frontier

Young Einstein

Never Tell Me Never

In a Savage Land

Take Away

A Man's Gotta Do

Around the World in Eighty Ways