John Jarratt

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John Jarratt in Sydney (2013)

John Jarratt (born August 5, 1951 in Wollongong , New South Wales ) is an Australian actor .

life and career

John Jarratt, the son of a coal worker, studied acting at the National Institute of Dramatic Art . After graduating in 1973, notable film roles quickly followed, particularly with the directors of the so-called Australian New Wave film trend . He appeared as a shrewd servant of an upper-class family in Peter Weir's mystery drama Picnic on Valentine's Day (1975) and as a friend of Mel Gibson in the thriller Summer City (1977). In 1979, he starred as the criminal and Australian national icon Ned Kelly in the television miniseries The Last Outlaw .

In the 1990s, he hosted the lifestyle magazine Better Homes and Gardens with his then wife Noni Hazlehurst , a well-known Australian television presenter. After his divorce from her, he also left the show and worked from then on as an actor and as a councilor in his hometown Wollongong.

From 2001 to 2006, Jarratt played a non-stop supporting role as foreman Terry Dodge in the hit television series McLeod's Daughters . In 2005 he starred as the psychopathic and xenophobic killer Mick Taylor in the horror film Wolf Creek , which he repeated in the sequel Wolf Creek 2 (2013) and the television series of the same name (2016-2017). In 2012 he was seen in a short but distinctive role as an Australian employee of the "LeQuint Dickey Mining Company" in Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained . In 2014, Jarratt made his directorial debut as co-director alongside Kaarin Fairfax with the thriller StalkHer .

John Jarratt and Rosa Miano (2012)

In 2017 Jarratt remarried Rosa Minao, with whom he was married for the first time in the 1970s and 1980s. His interim marriages to Nooni Hazlehurst and Cody Jarrett were divorced. He is the father of six children.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1975: The Great MacArthy
  • 1975: Picnic on Valentine's Day (Picnic at Hanging Rock)
  • 1976: The Young Doctors (soap opera)
  • 1977: Summer City
  • 1978: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith)
  • 1979: Through the Hell of Vietnam (The Odd Angry Shot)
  • 1982: Land Behind the Horizon (We of the Never Never)
  • 1983–1984, 1991: A Country Practice (soap opera, 6 episodes)
  • 1985: The Naked Country
  • 1995: Police Rescue - Dangerous Operations ( Police Rescue , TV series, episode 4x09)
  • 1995: All Men Are Liars
  • 2000: Water Rats - Die Hafencops ( Water Rats , TV series, episode 5x21)
  • 2001-2006: McLeod's Daughters ( McLeod's Daughters , TV series, 94 episodes)
  • 2005: Wolf Creek
  • 2007: Rogue (Rogue)
  • 2008: Australia
  • 2011: Savages on Wolf Creek (Savages Crossing)
  • 2012: Django Unchained
  • 2013: Wolf Creek 2
  • 2016–2017: Wolf Creek (TV series, 12 episodes)
  • 2018: Just Between Us

Web links

Commons : John Jarratt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. StalkHer - Official Site
  2. Rebecca Sullivan: Meet John Jarratt's ex-wives, including the woman he married twice! Retrieved April 15, 2020 .
  3. Alex Michael: Wolf Creek's John Jarratt reveals: 'My 4th wife is my 1st wife'. December 7, 2017, accessed April 15, 2020 .