Steve Le Marquand

Steve Le Marquand
Born	Steve Le Marquand (1967-12-26) 26 December 1967 Perth, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Occupation	Actor
Spouse	Pippa Grandison
Children	Charlie Le Marquand
Relatives	Sarrah Le Marquand (sister)

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.

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

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2025	Invisible Boys	TBA	TV series
2024	The Twelve	Mal Adcock	TV series
2024	Population 11	Trevor	TV series, 9 episodes
2023	The Claremont Murders	Trevor Rimmer	TV miniseries, 1 episode
2021	Australia's Sexiest Tradie	Terry Wood	TV series, 6 episodes
2019	Les Norton	Sgt Ray 'Thumper' Burrell	TV series, 10 episodes
2010-18	Rake	Col Mancusi	16 episodes
1993-18	Home and Away	Boyd Easton / Beggar / Kevin	9 episodes
2017	Blue Murder: Killer Cop	Detective Larry Churchill	TV miniseries, 1 episode
2017	Janet King	Wes Foster	6 episodes
2016	No Activity	Voice	3 episodes
2015	Let's Talk About	Chip	8 episodes
2015	Catching Milat	Phil Polgasse	TV miniseries, 1 episode
2014	Soul Mates	Guliver	2 episodes
2014	Wentworth	Colin Bates	Season 2, 4 episodes
2014	Old School	Gerard	2 episodes
2014	The Moodys	Donny	1 episode
2013	The Elegant Gentleman's Guide to Knife Fighting	Special guest	2 episodes
2011	Underbelly: Razor	Sergeant Tom Wickham	13 episodes
2011	Small Time Gangster	Tony Piccolo	8 episodes
2011	Laid	Zalan	1 episode
2010	Sea Patrol	Karl Strauss	1 episode
2009	Sea Princesses	Voice	Animated TV series, 52 episodes
2004	Rapid Response	Sergeant Lawson	TV pilot
2003	All Saints	Boyd Matthews	1 episode
2002	Young Lions	SPG Officer Stevens	1 episode
2002	Farscape	Oo-Nii	2 episodes
1999	Blue Heelers	Tyrone	1 episode
1999	Murder Call	David Hand	1 episode
1997-99	Wildside	Ray Collins	2 episodes
1998	A Difficult Woman	Snuff	2 episodes
1997	Big Sky	Bill Madigan	1 episode
1997	Water Rats	Tim	1 episode
1994	G.P.	Russ	1 episode
1993	Police Rescue	Youth	1 episode

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Agamemnon / Lysistrata		Seymour Centre
1995–96	He Died with a Felafel in His Hand	Actor (also adaptor / producer / director)	Bridge Hotel, Rozelle, The Lounge, Melbourne for Melbourne International Comedy Festival
2000–01	He Died with a Felafel in His Hand	Adaptor	Bridge Hotel, Rozelle, Bondi Pavilion for Sydney Fringe Festival World Bar, Sydney
2001–02	The Return (stage version of Last Train to Freo)	The Thug	Stables Theatre, Sydney with Griffin Theatre Company, Riverina, Griffin Theatre Company, Rechabite Hall, Perth
2002	Buried Child	Tilden	Belvoir Theatre
2002	He Died with a Felafel in His Hand	Adaptor	Edinburgh Festival with Gilded Balloon
2003	Waiting for Godot	Lucky	Belvoir Street Theatre fir Sydney Festival
2003	Songket		Sydney Opera House with Griffin Theatre Company
2003	Holy Day	Goundry	Wharf Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company
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
2004–05	The Spook	Alex / Fantasy Communist	Belvoir Street Theatre, Glen Street Theatre, Playhouse, Brisbane for Queensland Theatre Company
2005–6	He Died With A Felafel In his Hand	Adaptor	La Boite Theatre, DNA Studios, Canberra
2007	Don's Party	Don	Playhouse, Melbourne, Sydney Opera House with Melbourne Theatre Company / Sydney Theatre Company
2007	Paul		Belvoir Street Theatre
2007	Tales from The Vienna Woods	Oskar	Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company
2007	The Serpent's Teeth	John Black	Sydney Opera House with Sydney Theatre Company
2007	He Died With A Felafel In his Hand	Adaptor	Queen's Theatrette - Queen’s Arms Hotel, Adelaide with Half a Star Theatre
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 Sydney Theatre Company
2009–10	He Died With A Felafel In his Hand	Adaptor	Brisbane Arts Theatre, Hong Kong
2011–12	Summer of the Seventeenth Doll	Roo Webber	Belvoir Street Theatre, Arts Centre, Melbourne, Playhouse, Brisbane with Melbourne Theatre Company / Sydney Theatre Company / Queensland Theatre Company
2012	Death of a Salesman	Ben	Belvoir Street Theatre
2013	He Died With A Felafel In his Hand	Adaptor	The Flying Scotsman's Velvet Lounge, Perth, Brisbane Powerhouse
2014	Ugly Mugs	Doc / Mug	Malthouse Theatre, Stables Theatre, Sydney with Griffin Theatre Company
2015	Gaybies		Eternity Playhouse with Darlinghurst Theatre
2017	Jasper Jones	Mr Bucktin / Mad Jack Lionel	Belvoir Street Theatre
2018	An Enemy of the People	Hovstad, Editor of The Sentinel	Belvoir Street Theatre
2021-22	Green Park	Warren	Griffin Theatre Company for Sydney Festival with Griffin Theatre Company

External links

• Steve Le Marquand at IMDb
• Steve Le Marquand on TV.com