Nicholas Hope

Nicholas Hope
Born	25 December 1958 (1958-12-25) (age 52) Manchester, England, UK
Occupation	Actor

Nicholas Hope (born 25 December 1958 in Manchester, England) is an English born Australian actor currently living in Sydney, Australia. He is probably best known for his role in Bad Boy Bubby (1993), for which he won the Australian Film Institute Best Actor in a Leading Role award in 1994. He continues to work in film, theatre and television in Australia and Europe.

In 2004, he wrote a memoir called Brushing the Tip of Fame (1994, Bantam Australia; ISBN 1863254404), and in 2006 produced a monologue 'The Colour of Panic", which played in Sydney (The Studio, Sydney Opera House) and Oslo (Det Åpne Teater). He is currently completing a PhD in Performance Studies.

Partial filmography

• Bad Boy Bubby (1993) - Bubby
• Exile (1994)
• The Goddess of 1967 (2000) - Grandpa
• Scooby Doo (2002) - Old Man Smithers
• Paradise Found (2003) - Maurrin
• Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004) - Christian Van Dyke
• Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler? (2006) - Geoffrey Chandler
• Uro (2006)
• The Prime Minister is Dead (2008) - William McMahon
• 3 Acts of Murder (2009) - Harry Manning

External links

• Australia: The Dream is Dead, article written by Hope (Norwegian)
• Interview from July 2004
• Nicholas Hope at the Internet Movie Database
• Hope takes the rap

Persondata
Name	Hope, Nicholas
Alternative names
Short description	Australian actor
Date of birth	25 December 1958
Place of birth	Manchester, England
Date of death
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