Simon Lyndon

Simon Lyndon (born 1971) is an Australian actor and director.

Early life and education Simon Lyndon was born in Lewisham, London in 1971 and migrated to Australia with his family in 1981. He grew up in Fremantle, Western Australia. Simon attended John Curtin College of the Arts in the Theatre Arts program and later graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth.

Career

Film roles Lyndon received an Australian Film Institute Award (AFI) nomination for Best Supporting Actor for the 1997 drama Blackrock. and a Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Supporting Actor.

He won Best Actor in a Telefeature or Mini-series for his role as Jack Meredith in the 2001 telemovie My Brother Jack.

Other films include Fresh Air, Sample People, The Thin Red Line, From the Outside, Caught Inside, Falling in the Paradise, The Glenmore Job, The Well and Dust off the Wings

Television roles Lyndon's TV appearances include Police Rescue, Heartbreak High, Wildside, and Canal Road.

He also appeared in FOX network show Roar in 1997 as a tribe leader named Colm. The lead role of Connor Der Kilte was played by fellow Australian and Lyndon's former Blackrock co-star Heath Ledger.

In 2011 he played a younger Jack Thompson in Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo on ABC 1. He played the miner who died, Larry Knight, in the TV film Beaconsfield about the 2006 mine disaster. Also in 2011 Simon appeared in the second series of Spirited, on Foxtel, playing a ghost known as 'The King' or Darren Bonney, who lives in an apartment with a dentist (Claudia Karvan), who is in love with another ghost resident.

Simon played Tintagel Stone in an episode of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries in 2012. He also appeared in TV series Puberty Blues as a surfing teacher Gumby that same year.

He appeared as Emilio the truck business owner in season 2 of Mystery Road (episodes 1–3). He also played the unfortunate Hedwig's father Michael in the 2021 Netflix series Eden, and Twist in the 2022 ABC TV series Troppo.

Stage roles In 2013 Lyndon was in a four-person play called Anaconda by Sarah Doyle, with Tamarama Rock Surfers at Bondi Pavilion. He has also directed a Tamarama Rock Surfers production of Road, featuring among others Bojana Novakovic, Jeremy Cumpston, Zena Cumpston and Angie Milliken, as well as a Tamarama Rock Surfers production of Diary of a Madman starring Alan Morris.

In June/July 2017 Lyndon appeared in Sunset Strip, a four-person play by Suzie Miller, performed by Stables Theatre Company at Griffin Theatre in Darlinghurst. He reprised this role in a tour around Australia by the same company in 2019.

He has also appeared on stage in That Eye the Sky, Blackrock (in a different role to which he played in the film version), Cloudstreet and Popcorn.

Filmography

Film Year Title Role Type 1995 Sidewinder – Titanic Days Rick Short film 1997 Blackrock Brett 'Ricko' Ricketson Feature film 1997 The Well Abel Feature film 1997 Dust Off the Wings Gazza Feature film 1998 Bloodlock Reffo Short film 1998 The Thin Red Line Medic #2 Feature film 1999 Fresh Air Harrison Feature film 2000 Sample People Andy Feature film 2000 Chopper Jimmy Loughnan Feature film 2000 Dogwoman: A Grrrl's Best Friend Matt Heyduke TV movie 2001 My Brother Jack Jack Meredith TV movie 2004 Falling in the Paradise (aka Pad u raj) Jonathan Schumacher Feature film 2005 The Glenmoore Job Warren TV movie 2005 Best and Fairest Jake Short film 2006 Stalled Rob Short film 2006 Guy in a Field Guy Short film 2006 Warhead Short film 2007 Shotgun! (An Opening Sequence) Steve Short film 2007 BlackJack: Ghosts Johnny Vale TV movie 2008 Valentine's Day Bean TV movie 2009 The Last Supper Andrew Short film 2009 Hunted Bud Short film 2009 Facing Rupert Steve Swanson Short film 2010 Caught Inside Toobs Feature film 2012 Loaded Lee Short film 2012 Beaconsfield Larry Knight TV movie 2013 Thanks for the Ride Oliver Short film 2015 Colt 13 Simmo Short film 2015 Pedal Cannon Short film 2017 Concealed Max Feature film 2017 Foreign Body Adam Short film 2017 Red Handed Stalker Short film 2020 Necktie David Short film 2020 Chucky Boy Blue Chucky Short film 2022 Maddie's Red Hot Dylan Short film From the Outside 2024 Just a Farmer Policeman and directed the film.

Television Year Title Role Type 1995 Soldier Soldier Fusilier Michael Vickers TV series, 1 episode 1996 Police Rescue Matt TV series, 1 episode 1997 Heartbreak High JJ TV series, 2 episodes 1997 Roar Colm TV series, 1 episode 1998 Wildside John 'Scratch' Scratchley TV series, 2 episodes 2000 All Saints Will Harrington TV series, 1 episode 2001 Water Rats Kevin O'Shea TV series, 1 episode 1999 / 2001 Stingers Ben Matthews / Hickock TV series, 2 episodes 2007 City Homicide Josh Braddock TV series, 1 episode 2008 Underbelly Sean Sonnet TV series, 3 episodes 2008 Canal Road Daryl King TV miniseries, 3 episodes 2008 Rush Snuffy Wells TV series, 1 episode 2010 Cops L.A.C. Cameron TV series, 1 episode 2011 Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo Jack Thompson TV miniseries, 2 episodes 2011 Wild Boys Hogan TV series, 1 episode 2011 Spirited 'The King' / Darren Bonney TV series, season 2, 10 episodes 2012 Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries Tintagel Stone TV series, season 1, episode 3: "The Green Mill Murder" 2012 Puberty Blues Gumby TV series, 3 episodes 2015 Deadline Gallipoli Conrad White TV miniseries, 1 episode 2019 Mr Inbetween Pidgy TV series, 1 episode 2020 Mystery Road Emilio Gordon TV series, season 2, episodes 1–3 2021 Eden Michael TV series, 3 episodes 2022–24 Troppo Twist TV series, 9 episodes 2025 Return to Paradise Jimmy Clyborne TV series, season 2, episode 2

Theatre

As actor Year Title Role Venue / Co. 1994 Thark Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts 1995 That Eye, The Sky Playhouse Perth, Space Theatre, Adelaide 1995 Blackrock Jared Wharf 1 Theatre with Sydney Theatre Company, Canberra Theatre 1996 Live Acts on Stage Stables Theatre 1998 Cloudstreet Berth 9, Darling Harbour 2007 The Birthday Party FAD Gallery, Melbourne, St Kilda Army and Navy Club Memorial Hall 2013 Anaconda Bondi Pavilion with Tamarama Rock Surfers 2017, 2019 Sunset Strip Stables Theatre Company at Griffin Theatre & Australia tour Popcorn

As director Year Title Role Venue / Co. Road Director Tamarama Rock Surfers Diary of a Madman Director Tamarama Rock Surfers