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鈥檚 leading theatre, film and television actors. Dan has appeared in some of Australia鈥檚 leading television shows including Offspring, Raw FM, Blue Heelers, Wildside, Stingers, Farscape, The Secret Life Of Us, Satisfaction, Mary Bryant, 础叠颁鈥檚 My Place and Darwin鈥檚 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 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鈥� The Seagull for the Melbourne Theatre Company, The Cherry Orchard and The Cripple of Inishmaan for the Sydney Theatre Company, A Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream, Art of War, Benedict Andrews鈥� The Season at Sarsaparilla, The Bourgeois Gentleman, Barrie Kosky鈥檚 The Lost Echo and Mother Courage and her Children as a founding member of the Sydney Theatre Company鈥檚 Actors Company and over a dozen productions for the Keene/Taylor Theatre from 1998-2002. Most recently, Dan starred as 鈥楳acbeth鈥� in the acclaimed Bell Shakespeare production.
