# Steve Le Marquand

Steve Le Marquand (born 26 December 1967) is an Australian-born actor, known both locally and internationally for his film and stage work.

## Personal life

Born in Perth, Western Australia in 1967, his family moved to Sydney when he was quite young.
His younger sister is the columnist and media commentator Sarrah Le Marquand.
He is married to Australian actress and singer Pippa Grandison and they have a child together, Charlie.
He is commonly referred to by his nickname, Slem (his initials).
He played cricket for a number of years for many different teams and was also selected for various representative teams. His top score was 116* and best bowling figures of 8/9.
Lives in Lake Clifton in rural WA.

## Early life

Prior to acting, Le Marquand motorcycled his way around Australia, working at various cattle stations, docks, pubs, barges and melon farms. He then studied performing arts at Penrith in Sydney's outer west at the University of Western Sydney (Theatre Nepean) before stumbling across agent Penny Williams in 1992.

## Career
### Television

His first job was a TV commercial for Arnott's Ruffles which was banned a day after its release for sacrilege. His second job was on the Australian TV series Police Rescue and since then he has played an assortment of thugs, baddies, larrikins and cops (both good and bad) in a number of TV shows, including Les Norton, Australia's Sexiest Tradie, Janet King; Underbelly: Razor, Rake, Laid, All Saints, Farscape, Crash Palace, Young Lions, Blue Heelers, Water Rats, Big Sky, G.P., Murder Call, Home and Away, Wildside, and the ABC mini-series A Difficult Woman. He played the lead role of Tony Piccolo in the Movie Extra hit Small Time Gangster for which he received an ASTRA Award nomination for Most Outstanding Actor.
In 2021 he appeared in Australia's Sexiest Tradie., In 2023 Marquand was announced as part of the cast for Population 11, the second season of The Twelve. Marquand was later announced as part of the cast for Invisible Boys. Marquand was named as part of the cast for the second series of Mystery Road: Origin.

### Film

On film he has featured as a crazed colonel in Escape and Evasion; a cheeky cabbie in June Again; a psycho gangster in Locusts; a reclusive cattle station worker in Kriv Stender's Red Dog: True Blue; a down and out ex Rugby League star in Heath Davis' Broke; a sleazy, charismatic cult leader in Nick Matthews' One Eyed Girl; a dodgy drug dealer in Stephan Elliott's A Few Best Men; a battle hardened sergeant in Beneath Hill 60 (which earned him a Film Critics Circle of Australia Best Supporting Actor nomination 2009); a snarly stockbroker in 2008's surprise hit, Men's Group; a tall thug in Jeremy Sims’ Last Train to Freo (for which he was nominated for Best Lead Actor at both the Australian Film Institute and Film Critic's Circle Awards); a WWII digger in Kokoda; a larrikin Aussie climber in Martin Campbell's Vertical Limit; a clumsy, shotty-loving bank robber in Gregor Jordan's Two Hands; a moustachioed cop in David Caesar's Mullet; a weird-arsed beachcomber in Lost Things and an all-singing-all-dancing sailor in Disney’s remake of South Pacific.
He won the Nicole Kidman Best Actor Award at Tropfest 1996 for (his own) short film Cliché, and was also the lead actor in the Tropfest 2005 hit, Bomb.

### Theatre

Le Marquand has been seen on stage in Green Park, Ugly Mugs, Songket and The Return (which was the stage version of Last Train to Freo) for Griffin Theatre; Gaybies for Darlinghurst Theatre; Enemy of the People, Jasper Jones, Death of a Salesman, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (also for MTC and QTC), Paul, The Spook, Buried Child and Waiting For Godot for Belvoir; Holy Day for the STC, Don’s Party for the MTC and STC; and was a member of the STC's Actors' Company, where he appeared in Tales From The Vienna Woods; The Serpent's Teeth; Gallipoli and The War of the Roses (alongside Cate Blanchett) with the Company.
Le Marquand (together with Simon Bedak and Michael Neaylon) co-wrote, produced, directed and starred in a theatre production of the novel He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, which had its humble beginnings at Rozelle's Bridge Hotel in Sydney during 1995 before running for several years in Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Lismore, Hobart, Brisbane, Edinburgh, Toronto, New York, Wagga Wagga and Hong Kong. The stage adaptation's 'rough as guts' humour saw it become the longest running play in Australian history.

### Honours

In 2019, during The Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival in Winton, Queensland, Le Marquand was honoured with a star on Winton's Walk of Fame.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1996 | Cliche | Tim | Short film |
| 1998 | In the Winter Dark | Nick | Feature film |
| 1998 | Bloodlock | Flint | Short film |
| 1999 | Two Hands | Wozza | Feature film |
| 2000 | Vertical Limit | Cyril Bench | Feature film |
| 2001 | South Pacific | Stewpot | TV movie |
| 2001 | Slipper | Podiatrist | Short film |
| 2001 | Mullet | Jones | Feature film |
| 2001 | The Hitch | Driver | Short film |
| 2002 | Sway | Jake | |
| 2003 | Lost Things | Zippo | Feature film |
| 2003 | Ash Wednesday | | Short film |
| 2004 | Lovesong | Alexander | Short film |
| 2005 | Bomb | Man | Short film |
| 2005 | Aerosol | The Worker | Short film |
| 2006 | Kokoda | Sam | Feature film |
| 2006 | Last Train to Freo | Tall Thug | Feature film |
| 2007 | Razzle Dazzle | Bob | Feature film |
| 2007 | The Manual | Sonny's Father | Short film |
| 2008 | Men's Group | Lucas | Feature film |
| 2008 | Dream Life | Courier | TV movie |
| 2009 | Franswa Sharl | Mike Bishop | Short film |
| 2009 | Into My Arms | Ben | Short film |
| 2010 | Beneath Hill 60 | Bill Fraser | Feature film |
| 2011 | Boys on Film | Mike Bishop | |
| 2011 | A Few Best Men | Ray | Feature film |
| 2013 | One Eyed Girl | Father Jay | Feature film |
| 2014 | Kill Me Three Times | Sam | Feature film |
| 2015 | Terminus | Sheriff Williams | Feature film |
| 2015 | Moth | Peter | Short film |
| 2016 | Banana Boy | Bob | Short film |
| 2016 | Broke | Ben Kelly | |
| 2016 | Red Dog: True Blue | Little John | Feature film |
| 2016 | Silent Lamb | Brody Chapman | Short film |
| 2017 | No Appointment Necessary | Dr Schnell | |
| 2018 | Riot | Sergeant Evans | TV movie |
| 2018 | Book Week | Brant | |
| 2018 | Schedule One | Henry | Short film |
| 2019 | Kapara | Patterson | Short film |
| 2019 | Escape and Evasion | Carl Boddi | Feature film |
| 2019 | Locusts | Cain | Feature film |
| 2020 | Torch Song | Geoff | Short film |
| 2020 | Jump | Joe | Short film |
| 2020 | June Again | Roger | Feature film |
| 2021 | Lundi | Louis | Short film |
| 2022 | Dark Noise | Ollie Martin | |
| 2023 | Christmess | Chris Flint | Feature film |
| TBA | Piggy | Jack | Pre-production |
| TBA | Shackle | Rony | Pre-production |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1993 | Police Rescue | Youth | Season 3, 1 episode |
| 1993–2018 | Home and Away | Boyd Easton / Beggar / Kevin | 9 episodes |
| 1994 | G.P. | Russ | Season 5, 1 episode |
| 1997 | Water Rats | Tim | Season 2, 1 episode |
| 1997 | Big Sky | Bill Madigan | Season 1, 1 episode |
| 1997–1999 | Wildside | Ray Collins | Seasons 1 & 2, 2 episodes |
| 1998 | A Difficult Woman | Snuff | Miniseries, 3 episodes |
| 1999 | Murder Call | David Hand | Season 3, 1 episode |
| 1999 | Blue Heelers | Tyrone McKenzie | Season 6, 1 episode |
| 2002 | Farscape | Oo-Nii | Season 4, 2 episodes |
| 2002 | Young Lions | SPG Officer Stevens | 1 episode |
| 2003 | All Saints | Boyd Matthews | Season 6, 1 episode |
| 2004 | Rapid Response | Sergeant Lawson | TV pilot |
| 2009 | Sea Princesses | Voice | Animated series, 52 episodes |
| 2010 | Sea Patrol | Karl Strauss | Season 4, 1 episode |
| 2010–2018 | Rake | Col Mancusi | 16 episodes |
| 2011 | Laid | Zalan | 1 episode |
| 2011 | Small Time Gangster | Tony Piccolo | Miniseries, 8 episodes |
| 2011 | Underbelly: Razor | Sergeant Tom Wickham | 13 episodes |
| 2013 | The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting | Special guest | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
| 2014 | The Moodys | Donny Lannagan | Miniseries, 1 episode |
| 2014 | Old School | Gerard | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
| 2014 | Wentworth | Colin Bates | Season 2, 4 episodes |
| 2014 | Soul Mates | Gulliver | 2 episodes |
| 2015 | Catching Milat | Phil Polgasse | Miniseries, 1 episode |
| 2015 | Let's Talk About | Chip | Miniseries, 8 episodes |
| 2016 | No Activity | Voice | Season 2, 3 episodes |
| 2017 | Janet King | Wes Foster | Season 3, 6 episodes |
| 2017 | Blue Murder: Killer Cop | Detective Larry Churchill | Miniseries, 1 episode |
| 2019 | Les Norton | Sgt Ray 'Thumper' Burrell | Miniseries, 10 episodes |
| 2021 | Australia's Sexiest Tradie | Terry Wood | 6 episodes |
| 2023 | The Claremont Murders | Trevor Rimmer | Miniseries, 1 episode |
| 2024 | Population 11 | Trevor Taylor | 9 episodes |
| 2024 | The Twelve | Mal Adcock | Season 2, 2 episodes |
| 2025 | Invisible Boys | Fitzy | 1 episode |
| 2025 | Mystery Road: Origin | TBA | Season 2, 6 episodes |

## Theatre
### As actor

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1991 | Agamemnon / Lysistrata | | Seymour Centre, Sydney |
| 1995–1996 | He Died with a Felafel in His Hand | | Bridge Hotel, Sydney, The Lounge, Melbourne for Melbourne International Comedy Festival |
| 2001–2002 | The Return (stage version of Last Train to Freo) | The Thug | Stables Theatre, Sydney with Griffin Theatre Company, Riverina Theatre Company, Griffin Theatre Company, Rechabite Hall, Perth |
| 2002 | Buried Child | Tilden | Belvoir Theatre, Sydney |
| 2003 | Waiting for Godot | Lucky | Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney for Sydney Festival |
| 2003 | Songket | | Sydney Opera House with Griffin Theatre Company |
| 2003 | Holy Day | Goundry | Wharf Theatre, Sydney with STC |
| 2004–2005 | The Spook | Alex / Fantasy Communist | Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney, Glen Street Theatre, Sydney, Playhouse, Brisbane for QTC |
| 2007 | Don's Party | Don | Playhouse, Melbourne, Sydney Opera House with MTC / STC |
| 2007 | Paul | | Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney |
| 2007 | Tales from The Vienna Woods | Oskar | Sydney Opera House with STC |
| 2007 | The Serpent's Teeth | John Black | Sydney Opera House with STC |
| 2008 | Gallipoli | | Sydney Theatre Company |
| 2009 | The War of the Roses | Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk / A Killer / Suffolk / A Murderer | Sydney Theatre for Sydney Festival, His Majesty's Theatre, Perth for Perth International Arts Festival with STC |
| 2011–2012 | Summer of the Seventeenth Doll | Roo Webber | Belvoir Street Theatre, Arts Centre, Melbourne, Playhouse, Brisbane with MTC / STC / QTC |
| 2012 | Death of a Salesman | Ben | Belvoir Street Theatre |
| 2014 | Ugly Mugs | Doc / Mug | Malthouse Theatre, Stables Theatre, Sydney with Griffin Theatre Company |
| 2015 | Gaybies | | Eternity Playhouse, Sydney with Darlinghurst Theatre |
| 2017 | Jasper Jones | Mr Bucktin / Mad Jack Lionel | Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney |
| 2018 | An Enemy of the People | Hovstad, Editor of The Sentinel | Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney |
| 2021–2022 | Green Park | Warren | Griffin Theatre Company for Sydney Festival |

### As adaptor

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1995–1996 | He Died with a Felafel in His Hand | Adaptor / producer / director | Bridge Hotel, Sydney, The Lounge, Melbourne for Melbourne International Comedy Festival |
| 2000–2001 | He Died with a Felafel in His Hand | Adaptor | Bridge Hotel, Sydney, Bondi Pavilion for Sydney Fringe Festival World Bar, Sydney |
| 2002 | He Died with a Felafel in His Hand | Adaptor | Edinburgh Festival with Gilded Balloon |
| 2003 | He Died with a Felafel in His Hand | Adaptor | Regal Theatre, Perth, Latvian House, Toronto, Parkside Lounge, New York with Hair of the Dog Theater Company |
| 2005–2006 | He Died With A Felafel In his Hand | Adaptor | La Boite Theatre, Brisbane, DNA Studios, Canberra |
| 2007 | He Died With A Felafel In his Hand | Adaptor | Queen's Theatrette – Queen’s Arms Hotel, Adelaide with Half a Star Theatre |
| 2009–2010 | He Died With A Felafel In his Hand | Adaptor | Brisbane Arts Theatre, Hong Kong |
| 2013 | He Died With A Felafel In his Hand | Adaptor | The Flying Scotsman's Velvet Lounge, Perth, Brisbane Powerhouse |