Steve Le Marquand

Steve Le Marquand (born 26 December 1967) is an Australian actor of stage and screen. He stars in the 2025 dark comedy horror film Penny Lane Is Dead.

Early life and education Steve Le Marquand was born in Perth, Western Australia.

Prior to acting, Le Marquand motorcycled his way around Australia, working at various cattle stations, docks, pubs, barges, and melon farms.

He studied performing arts at Penrith in Sydney's outer west at the University of Western Sydney (Theatre Nepean). Underbelly: Razor, Rake, Laid, All Saints, Farscape, Crash Palace, Young Lions, Blue Heelers, Water Rats, Big Sky, G.P., Murder Call, Home and Away, Wildside, and the ABC mini-series A Difficult Woman. He played the lead role of Tony Piccolo in the Movie Extra hit Small Time Gangster for which he received an ASTRA Award nomination for Most Outstanding Actor.

In 2021 he appeared in Australia's Sexiest Tradie. In 2023 Marquand was announced as part of the cast for Population 11, the second season of The Twelve. Marquand was later announced as part of the cast for Invisible Boys. Marquand was named as part of the cast for the second series of Mystery Road: Origin.

Film

On film he has featured as a crazed colonel in Escape and Evasion; a cheeky cabbie in June Again; a psycho gangster in Locusts; a reclusive cattle station worker in Kriv Stender's Red Dog: True Blue; a down and out ex Rugby League star in Heath Davis' Broke; a sleazy, charismatic cult leader in Nick Matthews' One Eyed Girl; a dodgy drug dealer in Stephan Elliott's A Few Best Men; a battle hardened sergeant in Beneath Hill 60 (which earned him a Film Critics Circle of Australia Best Supporting Actor nomination 2009); a snarly stockbroker in 2008's surprise hit, Men's Group; a tall thug in Jeremy Sims’ Last Train to Freo (for which he was nominated for Best Lead Actor at both the Australian Film Institute and Film Critic's Circle Awards); a WWII digger in Kokoda; a larrikin Aussie climber in Martin Campbell's Vertical Limit; a clumsy, shotty-loving bank robber in Gregor Jordan's Two Hands; a moustachioed cop in David Caesar's Mullet; a weird-arsed beachcomber in Lost Things and an all-singing-all-dancing sailor in Disney’s remake of South Pacific.

Le Marquand plays Merrick in the 2025 dark comedy thriller Penny Lane Is Dead, in writer-director Mia'Kate Russell's feature film debut.

Theatre Le Marquand has been seen on stage in Green Park, Ugly Mugs, Songket and The Return (which was the stage version of Last Train to Freo) for Griffin Theatre; Gaybies for Darlinghurst Theatre; Enemy of the People, Jasper Jones, Death of a Salesman, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll (also for MTC and QTC), Paul, The Spook, Buried Child and Waiting For Godot for Belvoir; Holy Day for the STC, Don’s Party for the MTC and STC; and was a member of the STC's Actors' Company, where he appeared in Tales From The Vienna Woods; The Serpent's Teeth; Gallipoli and The War of the Roses (alongside Cate Blanchett) with the Company.

Le Marquand (together with Simon Bedak and Michael Neaylon) co-wrote, produced, directed, and starred in a theatre production of the novel He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, which had its humble beginnings at Rozelle's Bridge Hotel in Sydney during 1995 before running for several years in Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Lismore, Hobart, Brisbane, Edinburgh, Toronto, New York, Wagga Wagga and Hong Kong. The stage adaptation's 'rough as guts' humour saw it become the longest running play in Australian history.

Accolades Le Marquand won the Nicole Kidman Best Actor Award at Tropfest 1996 for (his own) short film Cliché, and was also the lead actor in the Tropfest 2005 hit, Bomb.

In 2019, during The Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival in Winton, Queensland, Le Marquand was honoured with a star on Winton's Walk of Fame.

Filmography

Film

Television

Theatre

As actor YearTitleRoleNotes 1991 Agamemnon / Lysistrata Seymour Centre, Sydney 1995–1996 He Died with a Felafel in His Hand Bridge Hotel, Sydney, The Lounge, Melbourne for Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2001–2002 The Return (stage version of Last Train to Freo) The Thug Stables Theatre, Sydney with Griffin Theatre Company, Riverina Theatre Company, Griffin Theatre Company, Rechabite Hall, Perth 2002 Buried Child Tilden Belvoir Theatre, Sydney 2003 Waiting for Godot Lucky Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney for Sydney Festival 2003 Songket Sydney Opera House with Griffin Theatre Company 2003 Holy Day Goundry Wharf Theatre, Sydney with STC 2004–2005 The Spook Alex / Fantasy Communist Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney, Glen Street Theatre, Sydney, Playhouse, Brisbane for QTC 2007 Don's Party Don Playhouse, Melbourne, Sydney Opera House with MTC / STC 2007 Paul Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney 2007 Tales from The Vienna Woods Oskar Sydney Opera House with STC 2007 The Serpent's Teeth John Black Sydney Opera House with STC 2008 Gallipoli Sydney Theatre Company 2009 The War of the Roses Thomas Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk / A Killer / Suffolk / A Murderer Sydney Theatre for Sydney Festival, His Majesty's Theatre, Perth for Perth International Arts Festival with STC 2011–2012 Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Roo Webber Belvoir Street Theatre, Arts Centre, Melbourne, Playhouse, Brisbane with MTC / STC / QTC 2012 Death of a Salesman Ben Belvoir Street Theatre 2014 Ugly Mugs Doc / Mug Malthouse Theatre, Stables Theatre, Sydney with Griffin Theatre Company 2015 Gaybies Eternity Playhouse, Sydney with Darlinghurst Theatre 2017 Jasper Jones Mr Bucktin / Mad Jack Lionel Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney 2018 An Enemy of the People Hovstad, Editor of The Sentinel Belvoir Street Theatre, Sydney 2021–2022 Green Park Warren Griffin Theatre Company for Sydney Festival

As adaptor YearTitleRoleNotes 1995–1996 He Died with a Felafel in His Hand Adaptor / producer / director Bridge Hotel, Sydney, The Lounge, Melbourne for Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2000–2001 He Died with a Felafel in His Hand Adaptor Bridge Hotel, Sydney, Bondi Pavilion for Sydney Fringe Festival World Bar, Sydney 2002 He Died with a Felafel in His Hand Adaptor Edinburgh Festival with Gilded Balloon 2003 He Died with a Felafel in His Hand Adaptor Regal Theatre, Perth, Latvian House, Toronto, Parkside Lounge, New York with Hair of the Dog Theater Company 2005–2006 He Died With A Felafel In his Hand Adaptor La Boite Theatre, Brisbane, DNA Studios, Canberra 2007 He Died With A Felafel In his Hand Adaptor Queen's Theatrette – Queen’s Arms Hotel, Adelaide with Half a Star Theatre 2009–2010 He Died With A Felafel In his Hand Adaptor Brisbane Arts Theatre, Hong Kong 2013 He Died With A Felafel In his Hand Adaptor The Flying Scotsman's Velvet Lounge, Perth, Brisbane Powerhouse