Francis Greenslade

Francis Greenslade (born 3 October 1962) is an Australian actor and acting teacher.

Early life Greenslade was born in Honiara, Solomon Islands to Australian parents. In the 1980s, Greenslade studied at the University of Adelaide where he first met Shaun Micallef. They performed together in the university's Footlights Club.

Career Greenslade has performed with Micallef in many television shows including The Micallef Program, Welcher & Welcher, Micallef Tonight and Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell. They both also appeared in Full Frontal.

Greenslade has also appeared on Pig's Breakfast, SeaChange, Blue Heelers, Water Rats, The Games and Marshall Law as well as in the 2003 Australian feature film Take Away (with Stephen Curry). He stars as Brian Gross in the Seven Network show Winners & Losers alongside Denise Scott who plays his on-screen wife Trish.

Greenslade teaches acting including drama at The National Theatre Drama School and at the Film & Television Studio International

In 2015, Greenslade appeared in The Ex-PM, he then made an appearance in the Channel 9 television film Schapelle after Schapelle Corby's high profile legal case, where he played Alexander Downer.

In 2022, Greenslade appeared in the Netflix series Irreverent playing Ron.

Community work Greenslade was a guest host at The Impossible Orchestra: 24 Hour Concert where Australia and New Zealand musicians played a world-first 24-hour symphony concert to raise awareness of the Care Aware campaign.

Personal life Greenslade and his wife, Louise, have three children. He plays a range of musical instruments; the clarinet, keyboard, accordion, guitar, ukulele and recorder.

Filmography Film +YearTitleRoleNotes 2003 Take Away Innkeeper 2012 10 Terrorists Alan Dean 2017 Lazy Bones Jack 2020 Out of Order Shaun 2021 Piñata The Man Yesterday Island Dusty Post-production

Television

Narration

Greenslade is a narrator of audio books including:- Death Delight by Gabrielle Lord The Gizmo by Paul Jennings 48 Shades of Brown by Nick Earls The Art of War for Executives by Sun Tzu; Donald G. Krause The Book of Secrets by Tom Harper Lost temple by Tom Harper Bachelor kisses by Nick Earls Walter wants to be a werewolf! by Richard Harland Lethal factor by Gabrielle Lord HMAS Sydney by Tom Frame Backs to the Wall by G.D. Mitchell

Theatre Melbourne Theatre Company The Madwoman of Chaillot Urinetown Things We Do for Love Man the Balloon Blabbermouth The Odd Couple Shakespeare in Love

Sydney Theatre Company Navigating

Playbox Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee Waking Eve Competitive Tenderness Babes in the Wood

Malthouse Optimism The Odyssey Tartuffe

State Theatre Company (SA) The Club School for Scandal Così The Tempest Accidental Death of an Anarchist Marat/Sade The Comedy of Errors

Magpie Theatre Funerals and Circuses Chutney Snap Prince of Knumbskulls Radio Dazef

Arena Theatre Company The Emperor's New Clothes

Red Shed Desert

Patch Evensong for Antarctica

The Marat Pack The Ages of Man Bishop Takes Knight As Time Goes By Not One But Two

Other The Boy from Oz (with The Production Company) 33 Variations (Comedy Theatre, Melbourne

Honours In 2017, Greenslade's portrait by artist/animator Phil Meatchem was a finalist in the Archibald Prize. The 153 x 117 cm portrait has him sitting on a couch dressed in a suit, looking out at the viewer, that Meatchem said was "inspired by the elegant Oscar-night celebrity portraits by photographer Mark Seliger."