Lachy Hulme
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| Lachy Hulme | |
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| Born | 1 April 1971 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
Lachy Hulme (born 1 April 1971) is an Australian-born actor and screenwriter. He wrote the feature film Men With Guns, and co-wrote (with director Matthew George) Let's Get Skase, a comedy-adventure, which "Half-Past" Hulme starred in. He also co-starred as Sparks in the Enter The Matrix video game.
[edit] Life and career
Hulme has lived most of his life in Melbourne, Australia, but moved to Los Angeles for 2 years, to improve his career. Hulme attended high school at Melbourne's Wesley College, graduating with honors in drama.
He is best known as the character Sparks in the Matrix trilogy, the video game Enter The Matrix and for belittling Steve Guttenberg..
He was considered for the role of The Joker in Christopher Nolan's film, The Dark Knight; however, Hulme did not receive that part.
Hulme starred in Macbeth (2006), as Macduff, and in BoyTown (2006), as music impresario Marty Boomstein. He also starred in the little seen thriller Four Jacks (2000) for which he won Best Actor in the Melbourne Underground Film Festival awards in 2001.
Hulme has been featured in many Australian TV shows such as White Collar Blue, Stingers, Blue Heelers and Raw FM.
He was a big supporter and repeat co-host of the cult classic radio show Get This, which was hosted by Tony Martin, Ed Kavalee and Richard Marsland. Hulme stars in Ed Kavalee's upcoming feature comedy Scumbus (2011).
Hulme starred in 2008 in a show called The Hollowmen starring as 'Murph' (David Murphy). The show is an Australian television comedy series on ABC, which ran for 2 seasons, each comprising six episodes. This comedy satire is produced by Working Dog Productions, which was responsible for Frontline, The Panel and Thank God You're Here. The Hollowmen is a comedy/drama set in the offices of the Central Policy Unit of the Australian Government, a special "think tank" personally, set up by the Prime Minister to help in getting reelected.
Hulme is set to appear in the second series of the TV show called Chandon Pictures as Derek Fuller.
Hulme appeared in a play called Elling, put on by the Sydney Theatre Company in 2009. He also appeared in an episode of the Australian television series called Rush in July 2009.
Hulme has done voiceovers for radio ads. In November 2008, he started voicing radio ads for NAB credit cards. In January 2009, he voiced TV ads for NAB.
Most recently, Hulme has been a cast member in Seasons 1 and 2 of Offspring as Dr Martin Clegg.
In 24 June 2011 Herald Sun it was revealed that Hulme would be starring in the TV mini series "Shaft Of Hope" the story of the Beaconsfield mine disaster. Hulme beat out still TV hopefull Jake Wall and a shirtless Craig McLachlan.
