David Wenham
David Wenham ( born September 21, 1965 in Marrickville, Sydney, Australia) is an Australian film actor.
Life
David Wenham is the youngest child of Kath and Bill Wenham. He has six siblings, a brother and five sisters. Wenham was raised in the Roman Catholic faith and attended the High School of the Christian Brothers in Lewisham. Before starting his acting career he worked among others as Bingo Caller and clerk in an insurance company. His partner since 1994 has been the actress Kate Agnew, with whom he has two daughters.
Work
Throughout his career, Wenham played not only in television series with, but made, for example, as a co-producer and lead actor of the social drama The Boys a name and was in this case also nominated for his role as Brett Sprague Australian Film Institute Best Actor of 1997. The stage version of The Boys was with him as the main character a success. The theater played in his career a major role, and he has performed on various stages in Australia. He was in an annual survey of the Australian People's magazine for the title of "sexiest man alive" nominated. In 2002, two times Oscar-winning feature film Moulin Rouge, he played the role of Aubrey alongside Nicole Kidman.
The breakthrough came in 2002 and 2003 with the role of Faramir in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and its sequel The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. In 2004 he had a role in the horror film Van Helsing. In the AFI award-winning film The Proposition - Deadly offer in 2005 He played among other things beside Guy Pearce and Emily Watson. In 2007, he starred in the role of Dilios in 300. In addition, with Hugh Jackman and Nicole Kidman in 2008, he played the role of the devious Neil Fletcher in Australia. In the novel adaptation Pope Joan, directed by Sönke Wortmann 2009 Wenham embodied next to Johanna Wokalek as Pope Joan, the male lead of the Marquis Gerold. In 2014 he again played the role of Dilios in the movie 300: Rise of an Empire.