Bryan Brown

Q: Has Bryan Brown won any major awards?

Bryan Brown has received several awards including the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. He is recognized for his contributions to Australian cinema.

Q: When did Bryan Brown start his acting career?

Bryan Brown began his acting career in the 1970s, with his first major role in the television series 'The Box'. He quickly gained recognition for his talent.

Q: What is Bryan Brown's estimated net worth?

Bryan Brown's estimated net worth is around $10 million. His wealth is primarily attributed to his successful acting career in film and television.

Q: What are some of Bryan Brown's successful television roles?

Bryan Brown is well known for his role in the mini-series 'The Thorn Birds', which became a landmark in television history, showcasing his acting prowess.

Q: Is Bryan Brown involved in any charitable activities?

Yes, Bryan Brown is involved in various charitable activities, supporting causes related to health and education, reflecting his commitment to giving back to the community.

Q: What genre of films is Bryan Brown most associated with?

Bryan Brown is most associated with drama and thriller genres, often taking on complex characters that showcase his range and depth as an actor.

Q: How many children does Bryan Brown have?

Bryan Brown has three children. He often shares his family life in interviews, reflecting his dedication to both his career and personal life.

Known for

Cocktail (1988)

IMDb 5.9 / 10

1988 / Comedy, Drama / 104 min

After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run by Doug Coughlin, who...

F/X (1986)

IMDb 6.7 / 10

1986 / Action, Thriller / 109 min

A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known gangster. When the agency...

Australia (2008)

IMDb 6.6 / 10

2008 / Adventure, Comedy / 165 min

Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a stock-man in order to...

Name

Bryan Brown

Height

6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)

Born

23 June 1947, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Spouses

Rachel Ward (1983–present)

Children

3 children, including Rosie Brown

Parents

Cecil Brown, Betty Brown

Estimated Net Worth

$10 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2025	Movie The Travellers Stephen Seary, a stage designer, returns to Australia to visit his dying mother, but a quick trip descends into family...	Fred	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2024	TV Boy Swallows Universe A young boy growing up in the suburbs of 1980s Brisbane faces the harsh realities of life — and the...	Arthur 'Slim' Halliday	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2023	Movie Anyone But You After an amazing first date, Bea and Ben’s fiery attraction turns ice cold — until they find themselves unexpectedly reunited...	Roger	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2023	TV Faraway Downs The story of an English aristocrat, Lady Sarah Ashley, who inherits a large cattle ranch in Australia after her husband...	King Carney	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2023	TV CAUGH*T Four Australian soldiers are sent on a secret mission to a war-torn country. Mistaken for Americans, they are captured by...	Warren Whistle	TMDB 4.9 / 10
2023	Movie Rachel's Farm Award-winning film director and actress Rachel Ward is the last person you’d expect to join a farming revolution. Following the...	Self	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2022	TV Darby and Joan An English widow on a reluctant quest. An Australian detective escaping his past. When lives collide, two strangers embark on...	Jack Darby	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2021	TV The Newsreader An unconventional relationship in a world on the cusp of change; a star newsreader and an ambitious bisexual reporter join...	Bryan Brown (archive footage) (uncredited)	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2021	TV The Moth Effect A satirical six-part sketch comedy.	Unknown character	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2020	TV Hungry Ghosts When a tomb in Vietnam is accidentally opened on the eve of the Hungry Ghost Festival, a vengeful spirit is...	Neil Stockton	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2020	TV The Sound Celebrating the movers and shakers of the Australian music scene, showcasing some of the country's best musicians with exclusive live...	Self - Co-Host	Not rated
2019	TV Halal Gurls A comedy series offering a candid look into the lives of three 20-something Hijabis living their best lives in Australia...	Gordon	Not rated
2019	Movie Palm Beach A group of lifelong friends reunite to celebrate a special birthday, with Sydney's iconic Palm Beach providing a stunning backdrop...	Frank	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2019	TV Bloom One year after a devastating flood kills five locals in an idyllic country town, a mysterious new plant appears with...	Ray Reed	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2018	Movie Peter Rabbit Peter Rabbit's feud with Mr. McGregor escalates to greater heights than ever before as they rival for the affections of...	Mr. Rabbit (voice)	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2018	Movie Sweet Country In 1929, an Australian Aboriginal stockman kills a white station owner in self-defense and goes on the lam, pursued by...	Sergeant Fletcher	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2017	Movie Australia Day On Australia's most controversial national holiday, the lives of three Australians from diverse cultural backgrounds will collide, illuminating contemporary issues...	Terry Friedman	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2017	Movie David Stratton: A Cinematic Life A compelling personal journey with David Stratton, as he relates the fascinating development of our cinema history. David guides us...	Self	TMDB 4.3 / 10
2016	Movie Red Dog: True Blue When eleven-year-old Mick is shipped off to his grandfather's cattle station in Western Australia, he befriends a scrappy, one-of-a-kind dog...	Grandpa	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2016	Movie The Light Between Oceans A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an...	Septimus Potts	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2016	Movie Gods of Egypt A common thief joins a mythical god on a quest through Egypt.	Osiris	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2015	TV Deadline Gallipoli Three journalists, Charles Bean, Ellis Ashmead Bartlett and Phillip Schuler, arrive at Gallipoli with the invading British and Allied troops...	Gen. Bridges	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2015	Movie Kill Me Three Times While on a seemingly routine job, a jaded hit man discovers that he's not the only one with his target...	Bruce Jones	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2014	TV Old School Ted McCabe, a retired cop, and Lennie Cahill a retired crim, get together to solve crimes, unravel scams and make...	Lennie Cahill	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2013	Movie The Darkside Writer and Director Warwick Thornton has assembled a collection of the most poignant, sad, funny and absurd ghost stories from...	Graham	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2013	Movie An Accidental Soldier An unexpected love story set in WW1 France between a young Australian baker who has deserted the front line, and...	Captain Foster	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2013	TV Better Man The remarkable life and death of Van Nguyen, a Vietnamese Australian man who was convicted of drug trafficking in Singapore...	Lex Lasry	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2011	Movie Love Birds Sometimes the best things in life happen on the fly. From the moment an injured duck crash-lands on Doug's roof,...	Dr. Buster	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2010	Movie Limbo Sonia arrives in Trinidad with her two children to join her husband Jo who is working as an oil engineer....	Daniel	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2009	TV The Good Wife Alicia Florrick boldly assumes full responsibility for her family and re-enters the workforce after her husband's very public sex and...	Jack Copeland	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2009	Movie Beautiful Kate Ned Kendall is asked to return to the remote and isolated family home by his sister, to say goodbye to...	Bruce Kendall	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2008	Movie Dean Spanley Set in Edwardian England where upper lips are always stiff and men from the Colonies are not entirely to be...	Wrather	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2008	Movie Australia Set in northern Australia before World War II, an English aristocrat who inherits a sprawling ranch reluctantly pacts with a...	King Carney	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2008	Movie Cactus A man is kidnapped from his city home in the quiet hours of the night and, the kidnapper, John Kelly,...	Rosco	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2007	Movie Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback After surviving the terrifying outback abduction of her boyfriend, Joanne Lees became the victim of a relentless trial by media...	Rex Wild	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2006	TV Two Twisted Two Twisted is an Australian TV mystery anthology drama which premiered on the Nine Network on 14 August 2006. Narrated...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2005	Movie The Poseidon Adventure A cruise ship succumbs to a terrorist act and capsizes on New Year's eve. A rag-tag group of survivors, spearheaded...	Jeffrey Eric Anderson	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2005	Movie Spring Break Shark Attack A young teenager travels to Florida, unknowing that a group of dangerous tiger sharks are ravaging the beach.	Joel Gately	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2004	Movie Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman A middle-aged woman has what she believes is a great life. She's been married for 25 years, she is the...	Hal Thorne	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2004	Movie Along Came Polly Reuben Feffer is a guy who's spent his entire life playing it safe. Polly Prince is irresistible as a free-spirit...	Leland Van Lew	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2003	Movie Footsteps Daisy Lowendahl is a best-selling suspense novelist who finds herself at her isolated beach house with a local young fan...	Eddie Bruno	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2002	Movie Dirty Deeds Set in 1960s Sydney, this is the story of an Australian gangster whose booming business, buoyed by the influx of...	Barry Ryan	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2001	Movie Styx Nelson puts his criminal ways behind him, having spent years as a first-rate safecracker. This resolution lasts until his brother...	Art	TMDB 4.2 / 10
2001	Movie Mullet Eddie returns to his home town on the south coast of New South Wales. Having left for the city without...	Publican (voice)	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2001	Movie Risk Three people discover jealousy and larceny are a dangerous combination in this tense drama. John (Bryan Brown) is a veteran...	John Kriesky	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2000	Movie On the Beach The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction and a...	Dr. Julian Osborne	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2000	TV On the Beach The world has finally managed to blow itself up and only Australia has been spared from nuclear destruction and a...	Dr. Julian Osborne	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1999	Movie Grizzly Falls When a young boy is captured by a grizzly bear, he begins the most incredible journey of a lifetime, full...	Tyrone Bankston	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1999	TV Journey to the Center of the Earth Remake of Jules Verne's classic story finds adventurers seeking a mysterious hidden land. They are joined by the wife of...	Casper Hastings	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1999	Movie Two Hands 19-year-old Jimmy is just scraping by in the red-light district of Sydney. When local crime lord Pando offers him a...	Pando	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1999	Movie Full Body Massage Nina, an art dealer, has her weekly massage appointment and is surprised to find out her usual masseur, Douglas, has...	Fitch	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1999	Movie Dear Claudia	Walter Burton	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1999	Movie Voyage au centre de la terre	Casper hastings	Not rated
1998	Movie On the Border A dumb as rocks security guard in a Texas border town gets involved in a planned bank heist thanks to...	Barry Montana	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1998	Movie Dogboys Marine veteran and former middleweight boxing champion Julian Taylor loses control in a bar fight and ends up serving time...	Captain Robert Brown	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1997	TV 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea New England, 1886: a creature of unknown origin is destroying ships at sea. It is the job of Professor Pierre...	Ned Land	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1997	Movie Twisted Four unsuspecting victims find themselves beyond "The Twilight Zone" in a twisted and altered reality: an airline passenger thinks he's...	Jack Jackson (segment 'The Confident Man')	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1996	TV Twisted Tales Stories of the bizarre and the supernatural, as introduced by Bryan Brown. Sometimes serious, often comical, but always with a...	Host / Narrator	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1996	TV Twisted Tales Stories of the bizarre and the supernatural, as introduced by Bryan Brown. Sometimes serious, often comical, but always with a...	Jack Jackson	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1996	Movie Dead Heart Ray Lorkin, chief lawman in the tiny rural settlement of Wala Wala, Australia, fears that long-simmering tensions between the area's...	Ray Lorkin	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1994	TV The Wanderer The Wanderer is a television series of British origin, first transmitted in 1994 and comprising 13 episodes. Every episode brings...	Adam/Zachary	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1993	Movie Age of Treason It's 69AD in Rome and streetwise hustler Marcus Didius Falco gets caught up in the death of the son of...	Marcus Didius Falco	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1993	Movie The Last Hit A retired asassin tries to make himself at home in New Mexico.	Michael Grant	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1992	Movie Devlin A troubled cop is framed in the murder of his brother-in-law, whose father is a political boss.	Frank Devlin	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1992	Movie Blame It on the Bellboy Mike Lawton, Maurice Horton, and Melvin Orton are three men who come to Venice. One of them is a hit...	Mike Lawton / Charlton Black	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1991	Movie Dead in the Water Charlie Deegan has almost everything he has ever wanted. He has an important law practice, a beautiful secretary as his...	Charlie Deegan	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1991	Movie Sweet Talker When scam artist Harry Reynolds gets out of jail, he makes his way to the depressed coastal village of Beachport,...	Harry Reynolds	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1991	Movie F/X2 F/X man Rollie Tyler is now a toymaker. Mike, the ex-husband of his girlfriend Kim, is a cop. He asks...	Roland 'Rollie' Tyler	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1990	Movie Blood Oath On an obscure Pacific Island just north of Australia, the Japanese Empire has operated a prisoner of war camp for...	Captain Cooper	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1988	Movie Gorillas in the Mist The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought...	Bob Campbell	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1988	Movie Cocktail After being discharged from the Army, Brian Flanagan moves back to Queens and takes a job in a bar run...	Douglas "Doug" Coughlin	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1988	TV The Shiralee Macauley is a swagman on the road in the 1940s looking for work. He's a laid back, laconic sort of...	Macauley	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1987	Movie The Good Wife In pre-WWII Australia, a love triangle develops between a man, his wife and the man's brother.	Sonny Hills	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1986	Movie Tai-Pan The film begins following the British victory of the first Opium War and the seizure of Hong Kong. Although the...	Dirk Struan	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1986	Movie F/X A movies special effects man is hired by a government agency to help stage the assassination of a well known...	Roland 'Rollie' Tyler	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1985	Movie Rebel This drama is set in World War II Australia, where an American Marine, Rebel is recuperating from wounds suffered in...	Tiger	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1985	Movie The Empty Beach Before shady businessman John Singer disappeared off Bondi Beach, his name meant money--big and small, clean and dirty--a man absorbed...	Cliff Hardy	TMDB 4.9 / 10
1985	Movie Parker An Aussie businessman is trying to find out why and by whom he was kidnapped and then later released with...	David Parker	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1984	Movie Give My Regards to Broad Street When the mastertape of McCartney's latest album is misplaced, he must discover its whereabouts in less than 24 hours or...	Steve	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1984	Movie Kim A friendly street kid in India, during the last years of the nineteenth century, looks and considers himself Indian, but...	Mahbub Ali	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1984	TV Eureka Stockade Eureka Stockade is a 1984 Australian miniseries based on the battle of Eureka Stockade. It reunited the producer, writer, director...	Peter Lalor	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1983	TV The Thorn Birds Follows the Cleary family over several decades, focusing on the central, tragic romance between Meggie and Father Ralph, who is...	Luke O'Neill	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1982	Movie Far East A cynical Australian Vietnam War veteran runs a sleazy bar in the Philippines. His old flame enters his life again...	Morgan Keefe	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1981	Movie Winter of Our Dreams When a womanizing bookshop owner hears about the suicide of a former girlfriend, he tries to find out more and...	Rob	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1981	TV A Town Like Alice Set against the brutal chaos of World War II, a love story begins that will take two lovers through a...	Joe Harman	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1980	Movie Blood Money A dying criminal takes his younger brother on one final job so that when the final hour comes, his brother...	Brian Shields	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1980	Movie Breaker Morant During the Boer War, three Australian lieutenants are on trial for shooting Boer prisoners. Though they acted under orders, they...	Lt. Peter Handcock	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1980	Movie Stir Filmed in the Clare Valley, Gladstone and the Flinders Ranges in South Australia, this prison movie was inspired by the...	China Jackson	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1980	Movie Palm Beach The stories involving surfing and drugs are followed in Sydney over two days.	Paul Kite	TMDB 3.7 / 10
1979	Movie Cathy's Child Cathy Baikas is a woman of Greek heritage who lives in Sydney, Australia with her three-year-old daughter. When her daughter's...	Paul Nicholson	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1979	Movie The Odd Angry Shot A group of Australian SAS regiment soldiers are deployed to Vietnam around 1967/8 and encounter the realities of war, from...	Rogers	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1978	Movie Money Movers A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house.	Brian Jackson	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1978	TV Against the Wind Against the Wind was a 1978 Australian television mini-series. It is a historical drama portraying both the British rule of...	Michael Connor	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1978	Movie Newsfront Two brothers working as news cameramen for competing companies in '50s Australia find their lives dramatically affected by the constantly...	Geoff	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1978	Movie Weekend of Shadows In the 1930s, a farmer's wife in a small town is murdered. Suspicion falls on a Polish labourer and a...	Bennett	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1978	Movie The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith The true story of a part Aboriginal man who finds the pressure of adapting to white culture intolerable, and as...	Shearer	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1978	Movie Third Person Plural Four young people get to know each other by spending weekends on a yacht stationed in Sydney's Pittwater area.	Mark	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1978	Movie The Irishman Paddy Doolan refuses to accept change. In a new century where the motor car is changing the way things are...	Eric Haywood	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1977	Movie The Love Letters from Teralba Road A violent man (Bryan Brown), who ostensibly has a slight mental illness due to fillings in his teeth, continues to...	Len	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1975	Movie Scobie Malone Sydney homicide detective Sergeant Scobie Malone and his offsider investigate the murder of Helga, whose corpse is found in the...	Policeman (as Brian Bronn)	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1975	Movie The Christmas Tree Three lucky pine trees, with human faces, are cut down in order to enjoy the holidays with human families.	axeman	TMDB 1.0 / 10

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2019	Movie Palm Beach A group of lifelong friends reunite to celebrate a special birthday, with Sydney's iconic Palm Beach providing a stunning backdrop...	Producer Production	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2009	Movie Beautiful Kate Ned Kendall is asked to return to the remote and isolated family home by his sister, to say goodbye to...	Producer Production	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2006	TV Two Twisted Two Twisted is an Australian TV mystery anthology drama which premiered on the Nine Network on 14 August 2006. Narrated...	Creator Creator	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2003	Movie Martha's New Coat It's Martha's birthday and the day is not turning out so well. Martha decides to get out of town and...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2001	Movie The Big House Within the concrete confines of a life sentence, one man rediscovers his capacity for love.	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 3.6 / 10
1997	Movie Still Twisted Four unsuspecting victims are hurled into a twisted and altered reality: ... a young woman tries to flee a hit-and-run...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1997	Movie Still Twisted Four unsuspecting victims are hurled into a twisted and altered reality: ... a young woman tries to flee a hit-and-run...	Producer Production	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1997	Movie Twisted Four unsuspecting victims find themselves beyond "The Twilight Zone" in a twisted and altered reality: an airline passenger thinks he's...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1997	Movie Twisted Four unsuspecting victims find themselves beyond "The Twilight Zone" in a twisted and altered reality: an airline passenger thinks he's...	Producer Production	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1996	TV Twisted Tales Stories of the bizarre and the supernatural, as introduced by Bryan Brown. Sometimes serious, often comical, but always with a...	Producer Production	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1996	TV Twisted Tales Stories of the bizarre and the supernatural, as introduced by Bryan Brown. Sometimes serious, often comical, but always with a...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1996	TV Twisted Tales Stories of the bizarre and the supernatural, as introduced by Bryan Brown. Sometimes serious, often comical, but always with a...	Creator Creator	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1991	Movie Sweet Talker When scam artist Harry Reynolds gets out of jail, he makes his way to the depressed coastal village of Beachport,...	Story Writing	TMDB 5.3 / 10
1991	Movie F/X2 F/X man Rollie Tyler is now a toymaker. Mike, the ex-husband of his girlfriend Kim, is a cop. He asks...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.3 / 10

The Travellers

2025 / TMDB 5.6

Anyone But You

2023 / TMDB 6.8

Rachel's Farm

2023 / TMDB 6.3

Palm Beach

2019 / TMDB 5.3

Peter Rabbit

2018 / TMDB 6.7

Sweet Country

2018 / TMDB 6.6

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What are some of Bryan Brown's notable films?

Bryan Brown is known for notable films such as 'Cocktail', 'The Thorn Birds', and 'Two Hands'. His performances have garnered critical acclaim and contributed to his status in the film industry.

Has Bryan Brown won any major awards?

When did Bryan Brown start his acting career?

What is Bryan Brown's estimated net worth?

What are some of Bryan Brown's successful television roles?

Is Bryan Brown involved in any charitable activities?

What genre of films is Bryan Brown most associated with?

How many children does Bryan Brown have?