Geoff Morrell

Bio

Geoff Morrell is one of Australia’s most prolific screen and stage actors, having appeared regularly with Australia’s major theatre companies over several decades, as well as appearing in countless critically acclaimed TV series and films.  He is probably most well known for his screen performances in Foxtel’s Cloudstreet, and ABC television series Grass Roots and Changi, as well as the internationally acclaimed Amazon series Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. 

He has been nominated 5 times in the leading actor category at the AACTA | AFI awards for the series’ Changi, Marking Time, Fallen Angels and twice for Grassroots, for which he won Best Actor in a Leading Role in 2001.He has also been nominated for four Silver Logies.

Recent screen credits include Mystery Road: Origins 2, Thou Shalt Not Steal, High Country, Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (series 1 & 2), and Wolf Like Me.   Other television credits include Top of the Lake: China Girl, Harrow, F*%king Adelaide, The Code, Blue Water Empire, Please Like Me, Deep Water, Catching Milat, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Serangoon Road, Small Time Gangster, Rake, Cloudstreet, as well as Blue Murder, Murder Call, The Falls, Bed of Roses, Curtin, Bastard Boys, Blue Heelers, 8MMM Aboriginal Radio, Home and Away, Marking Time, The Bill, Monocled Mutinee, Lady Windermere’s Fan and Farscape.

Film roles include The Mongoose, Ice Road 2: Road to the Sky (both starring Liam Neesom), as well as Red Christmas, Oranges and Sunshine, The Mule, Ned Kelly, Oscar and Lucinda, Ten Empty, Rogue, Lucky Miles, Looking for Alibrandi, Blackrock, Mr Reliable, No Worries and The View from Greenhaven Drive.

Having performed in countless stage productions spanning 45 years and two continents, Geoff was most recently seen in the National tour of Nakhia Lui’s award winning hit Black Is the New White for the Sydney Theatre Company.   Other recent theatre credits include The Great Fire, and The Blind Giant is Dancing for Belvoir St Theatre.

Geoff is also an accomplished artist and musician performing regularly as The Number Four Band with fellow actor David Field. He has previously composed the musical score for the feature film The Combination: Redemption.