Max Brown (Australian actor)

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Max Brown is an Australian film, television and theatre actor from Melbourne, Victoria.{{cite web|url=http://www.bgmagency.com.au/uploaded/cv/BROWN%20Max.pdf|title=Max Brown|publisher=BGM Agency|accessdate=7 August 2020}} Max is best known for his portrayal of Oscar Wolfe in the TV series The Gloaming on Stan.{{cite web|url=https://www.artshub.com.au/news-article/reviews/television/mel-campbell/tv-the-gloaming-259487|title=TV: The Gloaming|work=ArtsHub Australia |publisher=Artshub|accessdate=7 August 2020 |last1=Campbell |first1=Mel }} His mainstream theatrical debut was in Benjamin Law's play Torch the Place for Melbourne Theatre Company in 2020.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/jan/30/boat-person-ladyboy-or-drug-dealer-how-australian-tv-sidelined-asians|title='Boat person, ladyboy or drug dealer': how Australian TV sidelines Asians |work=The Guardian|date=29 January 2020 |accessdate=7 August 2020 |last1=Stynes |first1=Yumi }}{{cite web|url=https://www.mtc.com.au/discover-more/about-us/media/media-releases/torch-the-place/|title='Torch the Place'|publisher=Melbourne Theatre Company|accessdate=7 August 2020}}

Biography

Brown was born in Sydney the eldest of three children. He made his onscreen acting debut on Neighbours as Robin Dawal in 2015.

Filmography

=Film=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

2016

|Waiting for Angel

|Aaron

|Short film

2021

|We're Not Here To Fuck Spiders

|Jimmy

|

=Television=

class="wikitable sortable"
Year

! Title

! Role

! class="unsortable" | Notes

2015

|Neighbours

|Robin Dawal

|Guest role (3 episodes)

2016

|Bringing Our Stories Home

|Samuel Tongway

|On The Margins

2016

|Secret City

|Kevin Dang

|Recurring (4 episodes)

2017-2019

|Glitch

|David Goldman

|Recurring (6 episodes)

2019

|Bad Mothers

|Troy

|Recurring (3 episodes)

2019

|The Gloaming

|Oscar Wolfe

|Main cast (8 episodes)

2020

|Retrograde

|Rob

|Main cast (6 episodes)

2020

|Hungry Ghosts

|James Hoang

|Guest (2 episodes)

2020

|The Tourist

|Nathan Wong

=Theatre=

class="wikitable"
Year

! Title

! Role

! class="wikitable" | Notes

2019

| Torch the Place

| Paul

| Actor

Awards and nominations

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Year

! Award

! Category

! Work

! Result

2021

| Equity Ensemble Awards

| Most Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (with Maria Angelico, Nicholas Boshier, Pallavi Sharda, Esther Hannaford & Ilai Swindells)

| Retrograde

| {{win}}

2021

| Heath Ledger Scholarship

| Scholarship Award

| Film

| {{nominated}}

References

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