Greg Stone

Greg Stone
Born	Gregory Jonathon Stone (1961-06-23) 23 June 1961 Perth, Australia
Alma mater	National Institute of Dramatic Art
Occupations	Actor Singer
Years active	1984–present
Children	2

Gregory "Greg" Jonathon Stone (born 23 June 1961 in Perth, Australia) is an Australian actor who has appeared in films, television and on stage.

Early life

Stone was born in Perth, Australia to parents Roy and Jennifer Stone and grew up in Fremantle with his two siblings, Jennifer (b. 1958) and Peter (b. 1966).

Career

Stone graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney in 1983 and won a Helpmann Award and Green Room Award for Best Actor for his role of George W. Bush in David Hare’s Stuff Happens directed by Neil Armfield in 2006. Other notable film roles are in The Bank with David Wenham and Anthony LaPaglia, Van Diemen's Land, Oranges and Sunshine and The Sunset Six.

Theatre

Considered one of Australia’s finest stage actors he has appeared in over 70 productions for many companies including Melbourne Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, State Theatre Company of South Australia, Belvoir, Malthouse Theatre, Playbox Theatre Company, Black Swan State Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare, Griffin Theatre Company and Q Theatre. He was nominated for Green Room Awards for his performances in Angels In America, Good Works, A Little Night Music, Beauty Queen of Leenane, Beneath Heaven, Night a Wall 2 Men, and most recently Blackbird in 2008 (also a Helpmann nomination). He was a founding member of the acclaimed Keene/Taylor Theatre Project and Artistic Associate at Playbox Theatre in 2004.

Music

He is the lead singer of the glam rock band Melody Lords.

Personal life

Stone lives in Melbourne, Australia and has two children, Georgie and Harry Stone, with actress Rebekah Robertson.

Stage

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984, 1986	Are You Lonesome Tonight	Jesse	Q Theatre Western Australia Theatre Company
1984	Twelfth Night	Various	South Australian Theatre Company
1984	Captain Bloody	Various	Elizabeth Theatre Trust
1984	West Coast Romeo	Jade	Harvest Theatre Company
1985	Dancing in the Street	Ali	TOE Truck Theatre Company
1985	Reedy River	Performer	Q Theatre
1986	Much Ado About Nothing	Performer	Shakespeare in the Park
1986	Hamlet	Horatio	Q Theatre
1986	McNeil	Stanley	Griffin Theatre Company
1987	All the Black Dogs	Robin
1988	Manning Clark's History of Australia	MacArthur/Lawson
1989	Living in the 70s	Shane
1989	Summer Rain	Mick	Sydney Theatre Company
1992	The Emperor Regrets	Doherty	Playbox Theatre Company
1993	Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story	Various	New Zealand Tour
1993	The Eye of Martha Needle	Herman Juncken	La Mama
1993-1994	Angels in America	Joseph Porter Pitt	Melbourne Theatre Company
1995	Assassins	Leon Czolgosz
1995, 1996	Good Works	Shane/Neil	Playbox Theatre Company and National Tour
1995	Lady Windemere's Fan	Mr Hopper	Melbourne Theatre Company
1995	Head of Mary	Momozono	Playbox Theatre Company and Tokyo Tour
1996	The Black Sequin Dress	The Waiter	Playbox Theatre Company
1996	Merrily We Roll Along	Charley Kringas	Sydney Theatre Company
1997-1998	A Little Night Music	Count Magnus	Melbourne Theatre Company and Tour
1997	Don's Party	Don	State Theatre Company of South Australia
1997-2000	Keene/Taylor Theatre-Project	Performer	Melbourne Fringe Festival
1998	Miracles	Various	Playbox Theatre Company
1998	Chicago, Chicago	Lead	NYID
1999	Born Yesterday	Paul Verrall	Melbourne Theatre Company
1999-2000	The Beauty Queen of Leenane	Pato	Sydney Theatre Company and Tour
1999	A Return to the Brink	Nathaniel QuinnColin	Playbox Theatre Company
2000	Trelawny of the 'Wells'	Ferdinand Gadd	Melbourne Theatre Company
2001-2002	Stones in His Pockets	Jake	Sydney Theatre Company Melbourne Theatre Company and Tour
2001	The Seagull	Medvedenko	Melbourne Theatre Company
2001	How to Succeed In Business Without Really Trying	Bert Bratt	The Production Company
2002	Rapture	Harry	Playbox Theatre Company
2002	Cloud 9	Joshua/Gerry	Melbourne Theatre Company
2003	Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America	The Man	Playbox Theatre Company
2004	Julia 3	Joe
2005	War of the Roses	York/Rivers	Bell Shakespeare
2005	Stuff Happens	George W. Bush	Belvoir Theatre Company
2006	Honk If You Are Jesus	Rev. Hollis Shultz	State Theatre Company of South Australia
2006	Eldorado	Anton	Malthouse Theatre
2006	The Winter's Tale	Leontes	The Eleventh Hour Theatre
2007	The Pillowman	Ariel	Melbourne Theatre Company
2007	Life x3	Henri	Black Swan Theatre Company
2007	The Madwoman of Chaillot	Various	Melbourne Theatre Company
2008	Love Song	Harry
2008	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	George	Black Swan Theatre Company
2008	Blackbird	Ray	Melbourne Theatre Company
2008	The Lower Depths	The Actor	Ariette Taylor Productions
2009	Poor Boy	Sol	Melbourne Theatre Company Sydney Theatre Company
2010	The Berry Man	Eric	Hothouse Theatre
2010	Life Without Me	John	Melbourne Theatre Company
2011	A Golem Story	Guard
2011	Clybourne Park	Russ/Dan
2012	Babyteeth	Henry	Belvoir Theatre Company
2012	Queen Lear	Albany	Melbourne Theatre Company
2012	Pompeii LA	Numerous Roles	Malthouse Theatre
2013	The Crucible	Reverend Paris	Melbourne Theatre Company
2013	Hamlet	Polonious	Belvoir Theatre Company
2014	The Government Inspector	Performer	Malthouse Theatre Belvoir Theatre Company
2014	Glengarry Glen Ross	Dave Moss	Melbourne Theatre Company
2014-2015	Once	Da
2015	The Waiting Room	Alan Trounson/Eros	Melbourne Theatre Company
2015	The Weir	Finbar
2016-2017	Ladies in Black	Mr Miles/Stefan	Queensland Theatre Company
2016	Funny Girl	Tom Keeney	The Production Company
2017	Hir	Dad	Belvoir Theatre Company

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1988	Kokoda Crescent	Sergeant
2001	The Bank	Todd Hayes
2006	BoyTown	Air Traffic Controller
2009	Van Diemen's Land	William Kennerly
2011	Oranges & Sunshine	Tom
2011	Swerve	Publican
2013	The Sunset Six	Riff
2015	Is This The Real World	Mr. Rickard

Short Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Sparks
1992	The Surrogate	Detective Hill
1998	Two Girls and a Baby	Phillip
1999	Wednesdays	John
2006	William	Vincent
2007	The Bloody Sweet Hit	Ambo 2
2008	Hell's Gates	William Kennerly
2011	Husband, Father, Son	Father
2016	The Waterfall	Peter
2017	Boy Saviour †	Doctor	Completed

Key

†	Denotes films that have not yet been released

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1984	Five Mile Creek	Guest	1 episode
1985	Rafferty's Rules	Guest	1 episode
1985	Shout! The Story of Johnny O'Keefe	Deejay Doublebass	Miniseries, 2 episodes
1985	The Visitor	Peregrine	Television movie
1987, 1991	A Country Practice	Shaun / Hans Vandersluys	Guest role; Season 7, Episodes 75 & 76: What's Love Got To Do With It: Part 1 & What's Love Got To Do With It: Part 2 Guest role; Season 11, Episode 50: "Day By Day: Part 2"
1988	E Street	Warren Green	1 episode
1989	G.P.	Bruce	1 episode
1989	Skirts	Morgan	1 episode
1991	Boys from the Bush	Sydney	1 episode
1991	Chances	Guest	1 episode
1992	Phoenix II	Det. Inspector Miller	Guest role; Season 2, Episode 11: "Under Siege"
1995	Snowy River: The McGregor Saga	Dr. Cameron	Guest role; Season 2, Episode 3: "The Railroad"
1994, 1997, 2001, 2003-2004	Blue Heelers	Ron Blakely / Geoff 'Shorty' Abbott / Gerry Howson / Ivan Long / Bryan Reynolds	Guest role; Season 1, Episode 13: Armed & Dangerous Guest role; Season 4, Episodes 37 & 38: Collateral Damage & The Big Picture Guest role; Season 8, Episodes 18 & 19: Falling Apart: Part 1 & Falling Apart: Part 2 Guest role; Season 10, Episode 9: Bumps in the Night Guest role; Season 11, Episode 26: Life Goes On
1994, 2012, 2016	Neighbours	Aaron O'Connor / Bryce Unwin / Walter Mitchell	Recurring role; 3 episodes (season 1) Guest role; Season 1, Episode 6339 Large Guest role; Season 1, 18 episodes
1995	Janus	Ed Mann	Guest role; Season 2, Episode 2: Suicide by Cop
1997	Good Guys, Bad Guys	Steve Mason	Guest role; Season 1, Episode 1: Storm Warning
1998	SeaChange	Matthew Reilley	Guest role; Season 1, Episode 4: The Official Story
1998	State Coroner	Sgt. Frank Johnson	Guest role; Season 2, Episode 10: Assumptions
1999	Halifax f.p.	Leon Finke	Guest role; Season 1, Episode 14: A Murder of Crows
1999	Horace and Tina	Mr. Birdwood	Guest role; Season 1, Episode 22: Dancing Partners
2000, 2003	Stingers	Eric O'Neill / Paul Dawson	Guest role; Season 3, Episode 12: In Too Deep Guest role; Season 7, Episode 8: "Priapus' Playground"
2002	Shock Jock	Gil	Recurring role; Season 2, 5 episodes
2002	Marshall Law	Don Foster	Supporting role; Season 1, 10 episodes
2003	MDA	Dr Garth Carmody	Guest role; Season 2, Episode 19: Bigger Fish to Fry
2005	Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King	CNN Anchor	Minor role; Season 1, Episode 6: The Fifth Quarter
2007	The Librarians	Premier Carter	Recurring role; Season 1, Episodes 3 & 6: 4 Kilos to Book Week & And Nothing But The Truth
2008	Bed of Roses	Jack Atherton	Minor role; Season 1, Episode 1: Not Worth a Cent
2008	City Homicide	Dean Palmer	Guest role; Season 1, Episode 7: Baby Love
2011	Underbelly Files: Tell Them Lucifer was Here	Bandali Debs	Television movie
2011-2013	Winners & Losers	Steve Gilbert	Recurring role; 9 episodes (seasons 1-3)
2011	Lowdown	Steve Mott	Guest role; Season 2, Episode 8: Bubble Trouble
2012	Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries	Mr Sheridan	Guest role; Season 1, Episode 11: Blood and Circuses
2012	Devil's Dust	Peter McDonald	Mini-series, 2 episodes
2013	Better Man	Drennan AFP	Guest role; Season 1, Episode 2: Twin Dragons
2013	Offspring	Dr Brian	Minor role; Season 4, Episode 12
2015-2017	Glitch	Russel	Recurring role; 2 episodes (seasons 1-2)
2015	The Ex-PM	Neil Blanchard	Guest role; Season 1, Episode 4: Rivalry
2016	Secret City	Laidley	Guest role; Season 1, Episode 4: Falling Hard
2016	Australian Story	Himself	Documentary
2017	Newton's Law	Judge Greg Halliday	Guest role; Season 1, Episode 5: Law of Cooling
2017	The Doctor Blake Mysteries	Professor Worthington	Guest role; Season 5

Awards and nominations

Green Room Awards

Year	Award	Work	Result
1995	Best Male Performer	Angels in America	Nominated
1997	Best Male Supporting Performer	A Little Night Music	Nominated
1998	Best Actor on the Melbourne Fringe	Keene/Taylor Project #2	Nominated
2001	Best Male Performer	The Beauty Queen of Leenane	Nominated
2005		Stuff Happens	Won
2007		Winter's Tale	Nominated
2009		Blackbird	Nominated
2011		Clybourne Park	Nominated
2014	Best Theatre Company Ensemble	The Government Inspector	Nominated
2015	Best Ensemble Cast in a Musical	Once	Won

Helpmann Awards

Year	Award	Work	Result
2006	Best Male Actor in a Play	Stuff Happens	Won
2009		Blackbird	Nominated

Festival Awards

Year	Organisation	Award	Work	Result
2012	Indie Gems Film Festival Awards	Best Male Actor	The Sunset Six	Won
2015	Madrid International Film Festival Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Is This The Real World?	Nominated

External links

• Greg Stone at IMDb