Jeremy Sims

Early life Jeremy Sims was born in Perth, Western Australia on 10 January 1966, and was educated at Wesley College from 1977 to 1983.

In 1987, Sims was studying at University of Western Australia (UWA). He graduated in 1990 from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney, with a degree in Performing Arts (Acting).

Career Sims' first appearance on the big screen was a minor part in the 1980 movie Harlequin. He is however, remembered by many for his role as Alex Taylor in the risqué television soap opera Chances from 1991 to 1992, in which he was cast the year after graduating from NIDA.

Sims has starred in several films, including playing Mick, opposite Ben Mendelsohn's Kev in 1996 crime film Idiot Box. It was his first lead role in a feature film, and saw him nominated for Best Actor at both the Australian Film Institute Awards and the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards. Other film credits include 2003 film Liquid Bridge with Ryan Kwanten, 2003 Ned Kelly satire Ned, 2017 adventure comedy A Few Less Men and 2018 quirky comedy drama Swinging Safari, opposite Guy Pearce and Kylie Minogue. That same year he featured in the miniseries Day of the Roses, In 2004, he starred in Fireflies as Tim 'Backa' Burke. Farscape, and the Underbelly franchise.

Sims is also a director, with no less than five feature films credits to his name. He directed and produced 2006 thriller Last Train to Freo, which received three Australian Film Institute Award nominations. In 2010, his second feature, the war drama Beneath Hill 60 was nominated for 12 AFI Awards, five Inside Film Awards, and eight Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, including for Best Director and Best Film. He won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the Hamptons International Film Festival. In 2018, he wrote and directed the feature documentary Wayne (about motorsport champion Wayne Gardner) which was selected for Melbourne International Film Festival that year. His stage acting credits include Philip Seymour Hoffman's production of Riflemind, and the Edinburgh Festival / Royal National Theatre Company production of The Secret River.

Acting credits

Film YearTitleRoleNotesRef 1980 Harlequin Young boy Feature film 1996 Idiot Box Mick Feature film 2019 Bilched Matt's Dad

Television YearTitle Role NotesRef 1991–1992 Chances Alex Taylor 126 episodes Frontline Steve Barrett 1 episode 1998 Wildside Greg Zelka 1 episode The Secret Life of Us Neil 3 episodes 2016 Doctor Doctor Mike 1 episode 2020 Black Comedy 1 episode 2021 Mr Inbetween Rafael 5 episodes 2025 The Artful Dodger Uncle Dickie Season 2 Sunny Nights Lachlan Jennings 2026The F Ward Dr Geoffrey FriedmanTV series:3 episodes

Theatre Year Title Role