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Ned Banks

Part-time online journalist at Password, part-time carer for his brother. Ned is sitting on a decade of buried sacrifice. He is about to get his moment in the sun. But the price will be high.

About Dan Spielman

Dan Spielman has established a reputation as one of Australia’s leading theatre, film and television actors. Dan has appeared in some of Australia’s leading television shows including Offspring, Raw FM, Blue Heelers, Wildside, Stingers, Farscape, The Secret Life Of Us, Satisfaction, Mary Bryant, ´¡µþ°ä’s My Place and Darwin’s Brave New World. Most recently, he starred in the ABC telemovie, An Accidental Soldier directed by Rachel Ward.

Dan made his feature film debut in Paul Currie’s One Perfect Day for which he was nominated for an AFI (Australian Film Institute) and an IF (Inside Film) Award for Best Actor. His follow up performance in Tom White, directed by Alkinos Tsilimidos, earned him a Film Critics Circle Award and and AFI nomination for Best Supporting Actor. In 2011, Dan was seen in Daniel Nettheim’s The Hunter, alongside Willem Dafoe and Sam Neill.

Dan has been nominated several times for his theatre performances which include A Golem Story, Knives In Hens, The Ham Funeral and The Journal of the Plague Year for the Malthouse Theatre, Simon Phillips’ The Seagull for the Melbourne Theatre Company, The Cherry Orchard and The Cripple of Inishmaan for the Sydney Theatre Company, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Art of War, Benedict Andrews’ The Season at Sarsaparilla, The Bourgeois Gentleman, Barrie Kosky’s The Lost Echo and Mother Courage and her Children as a founding member of the Sydney Theatre Company’s Actors Company and over a dozen productions for the Keene/Taylor Theatre from 1998-2002. Most recently, Dan starred as ‘Macbeth’ in the acclaimed Bell Shakespeare production.