page_title: Bondi Beach
section_title: In popular culture
hierarchical_section_title: Bondi Beach / Culture and events / In popular culture
caption_attribution_description: English: Bondi Rock at North Bondi and Bondi Beach, Sydney
context_page_description: Bondi Beach is a popular beach and the name of the surrounding suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Bondi Beach is located 7 km east of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Waverley Council, in the Eastern Suburbs. It has a population of 11,656 residents. Its post code is 2026. Bondi, North Bondi, and Bondi Junction are neighbouring suburbs. Bondi Beach is one of the most visited tourist sites in Australia.
context_section_description: Bondi Beach has been used as a location for numerous films, television series, music videos, and a video game:
  The Block was an Australian home renovation television series; its first season was filmed at Bondi Beach in 2003.
  Being Lara Bingle was a reality television series that followed model Lara Bingle and was set in Bondi.
  Deep Water was a 2016 mini-series set on Bondi Beach which was loosely based on a series of bashings and murders of 30-80 gay men in the late 1980s and early 1990s.  A documentary, Deep Water:The Real Story was broadcast along with the fictionalized mini-series.
  Bondi Rescue is a factual television series about the team of lifeguards who patrol the beach.
  Bondi Vet is a factual television series based on veterinarian Chris Brown.
  Breakers was a television drama series filmed around Bondi Beach.
  The video game Tony Hawk's Underground 2's Level Australia is based on Bondi Beach.
  Les Norton, a popular Australian fictional character who stars in the Robert G. Barrett series of books, "lives" at Bondi in the stories.
  People Under the Stairs, an American hip hop duo, filmed part of the video for their song "The Wiz" on Bondi Beach.
  Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire, an American animated movie, included scenes set at Bondi Beach.
  Two Hands (1999 film), starring Heath Ledger.
  The 1959 film version of Summer of the Seventeenth Doll featured the characters drinking beer at the Bondi Iceberg's Club.
  The 1966 film They're a Weird Mob features a scene in which the star is rescued on Bondi Beach.
  The Endless Summer Music Festival
  Bondi Beach was featured in the Modern Family episode "Australia", which aired on U.S. television on 23 April 2014.
  In Top of the Lake Series 2, Robin investigates a case opened when a suitcase containing a woman's body washes up on Bondi Beach.
  In Season 3, Episode 12 of Lost a Bondi Beach t-shirt is used as swaddling for a baby, implying that one of the passengers on ill-fated Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 (which originated in Sydney, Australia) had been to Bondi Beach.
caption: View from Ben Buckler
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