Chris Haywood

Haywood was born around 1948 in Billericay, Essex, England.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} He spent his early childhood in Chelmsford before moving to High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire where he attended Royal Grammar School from 1959 to 1965. He then started working in the cellars of a local wine shipper before gaining a place at E15 Acting School. After graduating in 1970 he emigrated to Australia.

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Soon after arriving in Sydney, Haywood became involved with the Nimrod Theatre Company, helping to build the premises with scrap timber.{{cite web | title=Getting his gear off: actor Chris Haywood | website=ABC Gold and Tweed Coasts Queensland| publisher= Australian Broadcasting Corporation | date=10 September 2004| first=Jane |last=Cowan |url=http://www.abc.net.au:80/goldcoast/stories/s1195333.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070128202705/http://www.abc.net.au:80/goldcoast/stories/s1195333.htm | archive-date=28 January 2007 | url-status=dead }}

He was the artistic director of the Pros and Cons Playhouse at Parramatta Gaol from 1979 to 1981, and established the drama service on Kiribati National Radio.{{cite web| url=https://shanahan.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/HAYWOOD-Chris-221019.pdf| title=Chris Haywood: Actor|publisher= Shanahan Management Pty Ltd| access-date=7 January 2022}}

His acting career encompasses roles in many films and television series.

Haywood is{{when|date=January 2022}} the Patron of the Friends of Waverley Library, where he inaugurated The Nib Literary Award, now known as the Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award. The prize is an annual award of $40,000 given for the quality of research for a published work of literary merit written by an Australian writer and published in the previous 12 months.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}

Haywood is now{{when|date=January 2022}} the Deputy Captain of VRA Hawkesbury{{clarify|date=January 2022}} and coxswain of their rescue boat. He is also currently{{when|date=January 2022}} working as a coxswain in the Australian pearling industry{{citation needed|date=January 2022}} for Broken Bay Pearl Farm.{{cite web | title=Our Story | website=Broken Bay Pearl Farm | date=8 June 2021 | url=https://brokenbaypearlfarm.com.au/our-story/ | access-date=7 January 2022}}

TV credits as an actor include: Homicide, Essington, Against the Wind, Five Mile Creek, Return to Eden, Waterfront, A Good Thing Going, Boys From The Bush, Water Rats, Farscape, McLeod's Daughters, All Saints, Stingers, Grass Roots, Home & Away, The Last Confession of Alexander Pearce and The Pacific. Haywood appeared in Neighbours as Walter Mitchell in June 2013.{{cite web|url=http://neighbours.com.au/11457.htm|title=Chris Haywood ventures into Erinsborough|date=17 June 2013|work=Neighbours.com.au|publisher=Eleven|access-date=17 June 2013}}

TV credits as a writer: Alvin Purple additional material (1976).{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}

Haywood was married to actress, Wendy Hughes, {{circa}} 1980 and they had a child.{{cite web | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160715073314/http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/australian-actor-wendy-hughes-has-died-at-the-age-of-61/story-fni0cx12-1226848998648 | title=Australian actor Wendy Hughes has died at the age of 61 | last=Sydcon staff | work=The Sunday Telegraph | date=8 March 2014 | access-date=10 October 2022 |url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/australian-actor-wendy-hughes-has-died-at-the-age-of-61/story-fni0cx12-1226848998648 |archive-date=15 July 2016 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140313032117/http://if.com.au/2014/03/10/article/Chris-Haywood-pays-tribute-to-Wendy-Hughes/VTNASYSPDH.html | title=Chris Haywood pays tribute to Wendy Hughes | last=staff writer | work=IF Magazine | date=10 March 2014 | access-date=10 October 2022 | url-status=dead |archive-date=13 March 2014 |url=http://if.com.au/2014/03/10/article/Chris-Haywood-pays-tribute-to-Wendy-Hughes/VTNASYSPDH.html }} They had met while filming Newsfront (1978), their relationship developed soon after.{{cite web | url=https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/2153715/obituary-wendy-hughes/ | title=Obituary: Wendy Hughes | first=Jason | last=Blake | work=Newcastle Herald | date=16 March 2014 | access-date=10 October 2022 }} In April 1980 Haywood and Hughes portrayed "screen parents" in a childbirth film, For a Child Called Michael, shown to expecting parents at Royal Women's Hospital, Melbourne.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52244427 |title=New Film Prepares Parents for Childbirth |first=Tina |last=Harris |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly |volume=47 |issue=45 |date=9 April 1980 |access-date=10 October 2022 |page=83 |via=National Library of Australia }} The couple separated in 1982.{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article47229260 |title=Going It Alone |newspaper=The Australian Women's Weekly. Your TV Magazine |volume=48 |issue=17 |date=24 September 1980 |access-date=10 October 2022 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia }}

His performances have been honoured with three Awards from the Australian Film Institute (from a total of eight nominations) for his roles in the feature films A Street to Die and Emerald City, and for television in Stingers as well as the Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Kiss or Kill and the Asian Film Festival Award for In Search of Anna. He garnered three Logie Awards for his work on television-for Essington, A Good Thing Going and Janus. He won the Best Actor award at the Tampa Bay Film Festival in Florida.{{when|date=January 2022}} {{Citation needed|date=October 2010}}

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• {{cite book | author = Brian McFarlane, Geoff Mayer, Ina Bertrand (Ed.) |title = The Oxford companion to Australian film| publisher = Melbourne, Australia ; New York: Oxford University Press| year = 1999| isbn = 0-19-553797-1}}
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