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Jeremy Sims(I)

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Jeremy Sims
Set in a small Australian town during the 1970s, a teenager armed with a video camera documents life in the cul-de-sac his family shares with two other families.
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Jeremy Sims is a prolific and popular figure in Australian artistic life. He works as an actor, director and producer across theatre, film and television. He has directed 5 feature films, over 40 hours of Television and won two AACTA/AFI awards.

In 2006, Jeremy produced and directed Last Train to Freo. The film received 3 AFI Award Nominations, including Best Actor.

In 2010 his second feature, the WW1 epic Beneath Hill 60 was nominated for 12 AFI Awards, 5 IF Awards and 8 FCCA Awards, including Best Director and Best Film across all three awards.

Jeremy was awarded the prestigious Alfred P Sloan Feature Prize at the Hamptons International Film Festival.

2014's Last Cab to Darwin, which he co-wrote, was a financial and critical hit. It received 13 AACTA (AFI) award nominations, with four cast members getting best actor nods, and Michael Caton winning for the lead role of Rex.

Jeremy's last film Rams, starring Sam Neill, Michael Caton and Miranda Richardson, was released in 2020 had multiple AACTA award nominations and has become a worldwide hit.

Jeremy has directed multiple seasons of the internationally successful period drama 'A Place to Call Home' as well as the 8 part Medical Rescue series RFDS for Endemol/Shine and the 6 part series Back To The Rafters for Amazon.

Jeremy has four feature films and a two television projects in development, including two features in late stage development with Screen Australia, slated to shoot next year.
BornJanuary 10, 1966
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BornJanuary 10, 1966
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  • Awards
    • 3 wins & 18 nominations

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Steve Bastoni, Zoe Carides, Tammy Macintosh, Jeremy Sims, and Gary Sweet in Police Rescue (1994)
Jeremy Sims in Fireflies (2004)
Jeremy Sims in Fireflies (2004)
Peter Lamb and Jeremy Sims in Fireflies (2004)
Jeremy Sims in Fireflies (2004)
Jeremy Sims and Libby Tanner in Fireflies (2004)
Jeremy Sims in Fireflies (2004)
Natalia Novikova and Jeremy Sims in Fireflies (2004)
Jeremy Sims in Fireflies (2004)
Kylie Minogue, Guy Pearce, Asher Keddie, Julian McMahon, Radha Mitchell, and Jeremy Sims in Liekehtivät lapset (2018)

Known for:

Michael Caton, Ningali Lawford, Jacki Weaver, Mark Coles Smith, and Emma Hamilton in Last Cab to Darwin (2015)
Last Cab to Darwin
7.2
  • Director
  • 2015
Kukkula 60 (2010)
Kukkula 60
7.0
  • Director(as Jeremy Hartley Sims)
  • 2010
Jeremy Sims in Chances (1991)
Chances
6.2
TV Series
  • Alex Taylor
Idiot Box (1996)
Idiot Box
6.4
  • Mick
  • 1996

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Actor

  • RFDS (2021)
    RFDS
    7.9
    TV Series
    • Dr. Johnston
    • 2023
  • Scott Ryan in Mr Inbetween (2018)
    Mr Inbetween
    8.6
    TV Series
    • Rafael
    • 2021
  • Aaron Fa'aoso, Jon Bell, Elizabeth Wymarra, Bjorn Stewart, Nakkiah Lui, and Steven Oliver in Black Comedy (2014)
    Black Comedy
    7.2
    TV Series
    • Guest Cast
    • 2020
  • Bilched (2019)
    Bilched
    7.9
    • Matt's Dad
    • 2019
  • Kylie Minogue, Guy Pearce, Asher Keddie, Julian McMahon, Radha Mitchell, and Jeremy Sims in Liekehtivät lapset (2018)
    Liekehtivät lapset
    5.6
    • Bob Marsh
    • 2018
  • Kris Marshall, Xavier Samuel, Shane Jacobson, James Helm, and Dacre Montgomery in A Few Less Men (2017)
    A Few Less Men
    4.8
    • Pilot Pidgeon
    • 2017
  • Rodger Corser in Sydänlääkärin syöksykierre (2016)
    Sydänlääkärin syöksykierre
    7.8
    TV Series
    • Mike
    • 2016
  • Patrick Brammall in Ruben Guthrie (2015)
    Ruben Guthrie
    5.8
    • Ray
    • 2015
  • Dangerous Remedy (2012)
    Dangerous Remedy
    6.6
    TV Movie
    • Bertram Wainer
    • 2012
  • Wild Boys (2011)
    Wild Boys
    6.8
    TV Series
    • Francis Fuller
    • 2011
  • Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away (2011)
    Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away
    6.6
    TV Movie
    • Lord Tony Moynihan
    • 2011
  • Shane Bourne, Nadine Garner, Noni Hazlehurst, and Aaron Pedersen in City Homicide (2006)
    City Homicide
    7.5
    TV Series
    • Pete Copeland
    • 2010
  • The Waiting City (2009)
    The Waiting City
    6.1
    • Carlisle
    • 2009
  • Home and Away (1988)
    Home and Away
    5.1
    TV Series
    • David 'Gardy' Gardiner
    • 2009
  • Kadonneen jäljillä (2009)
    Kadonneen jäljillä
    6.4
    • Mclean
    • 2009

Director

  • RFDS (2021)
    RFDS
    7.9
    TV Series
    • Director
    • 2021–2023
  • Home and Away (1988)
    Home and Away
    5.1
    TV Series
    • Director
    • 2022
  • Michael Caton, Rebecca Gibney, Erik Thomson, Willow Speers, Kaspar Frost, Angus McLaren, HaiHa Le, Hugh Sheridan, George Houvardas, Georgina Haig, and Aaron L. McGrath in Back to the Rafters (2021)
    Back to the Rafters
    6.9
    TV Series
    • Director
    • 2021
  • Sam Neill and Michael Caton in Rams (2020)
    Rams
    6.5
    • Director
    • 2020
  • Brett Climo, Marta Dusseldorp, Craig Hall, Noni Hazlehurst, Frankie J. Holden, Deborah Kennedy, Sara Wiseman, Jenni Baird, Tim Draxl, Abby Earl, Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood, and David Berry in Kotiin takaisin (2013)
    Kotiin takaisin
    8.3
    TV Series
    • Director
    • 2017–2018
  • Wayne (2018)
    Wayne
    7.5
    • Director
    • 2018
  • Rodger Corser in Sydänlääkärin syöksykierre (2016)
    Sydänlääkärin syöksykierre
    7.8
    TV Series
    • Director
    • 2016
  • Michael Caton, Ningali Lawford, Jacki Weaver, Mark Coles Smith, and Emma Hamilton in Last Cab to Darwin (2015)
    Last Cab to Darwin
    7.2
    • Director
    • 2015
  • Daniel Amalm, Gigi Edgley, Katherine Hicks, Les Hill, Peter Phelps, Libby Tanner, and Andrew Lees in Rescue Special Ops (2009)
    Rescue Special Ops
    7.4
    TV Series
    • Director
    • 2011
  • Kukkula 60 (2010)
    Kukkula 60
    7.0
    • Director (as Jeremy Hartley Sims)
    • 2010
  • Gigi Edgley and Steve Le Marquand in Last Train to Freo (2006)
    Last Train to Freo
    6.5
    • Director
    • 2006

Producer

  • Michael Caton, Ningali Lawford, Jacki Weaver, Mark Coles Smith, and Emma Hamilton in Last Cab to Darwin (2015)
    Last Cab to Darwin
    7.2
    • producer
    • 2015
  • Kukkula 60 (2010)
    Kukkula 60
    7.0
    • co-producer (as Jeremy Hartley Sims)
    • 2010
  • Gigi Edgley and Steve Le Marquand in Last Train to Freo (2006)
    Last Train to Freo
    6.5
    • executive producer
    • 2006

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  • Alternative name
    • Jeremy Hartley Sims
  • Born
    • January 10, 1966
    • Perth, Western Australia, Australia
  • Other works
    Plays Ed Harris in "The Virgin Mim" play by Tony McNamara (Wharf Theater, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia).

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    • Male
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    • he/him

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    He graduated from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) with a degree in Performing Arts (Acting) in 1990.

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