David Wenham

Q: Has David Wenham won any awards?

David Wenham has received several awards, including the AFI Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for 'The Boys.' He has also been nominated for various other awards throughout his career, showcasing his talent and versatility.

Q: What was David Wenham's first film?

David Wenham's first film was 'The Boys,' released in 1998. This film was a significant stepping stone in his career, allowing him to showcase his acting skills and gain recognition.

Q: What are David Wenham's most successful films?

Some of David Wenham's most successful films include 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy, '300,' and 'Lion.' These films have not only achieved commercial success but have also received critical acclaim.

Q: What is known about David Wenham's personal life?

David Wenham is married to Kate Agnew, and they have two children together. He tends to keep his personal life private, focusing more on his professional career in the public eye.

Q: What is David Wenham's estimated net worth?

David Wenham's estimated net worth is around $3 million. His wealth has been accumulated through his extensive career in film, television, and theatre.

Q: What are some milestones in David Wenham's filmography?

Milestones in David Wenham's filmography include his roles in 'The Lord of the Rings,' which significantly raised his profile, and his performance in 'Lion,' which earned him critical acclaim and further solidified his status as a talented actor.

Q: Is David Wenham involved in any charitable work?

Yes, David Wenham is involved in various charitable activities, particularly those focused on environmental issues. He is known for his advocacy and support for sustainable practices and conservation efforts.

Known for

300 (2006)

IMDb 7.6 / 10

2006 / Action, Drama / 117 min

Based on Frank Miller's graphic novel, "300" is very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his...

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King poster

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

IMDb 9 / 10

2003 / Action, Adventure / 201 min

The final showdown between the good and evil forces fighting for Middle Earth. Gandalf prepares for the battle, while Frodo and Sam march towards...

Lion (2016)

IMDb 8.0 / 10

2016 / Biography, Drama / 118 min

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by...

Name

David Wenham

Height

5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)

Born

21 September 1965, Marrickville, New South Wales, Australia

Spouses

Kate Agnew (2005–present)

Children

2 children, names not publicly known

Parents

Peter Wenham, Mary Wenham

Estimated Net Worth

$3 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2027	Movie Zac Power Zac Power’s position as the top teenage spy is compromised after a brilliant new agent arrives. When his recklessness allows...	Agent Papercut (voice)	Not rated
2025	Movie Spit Spitteri finds himself locked up in an immigration detention centre upon his return to Australia. With old enemies on his...	Johnny 'Spit' Spitieri	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2024	TV Fake Magazine features writer Birdie Bell meets successful grazier Joe Burt on a dating app and believes she's found her perfect...	Joe Burt	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2024	Movie Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back When the promise of living in a perfect digital world traps the citizens of Sanctuary City online, Combat Wombat and...	Lenny Glick (voice)	TMDB 6.3 / 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...	Neil Fletcher	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2022	Movie Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind The vicious, power-mad Kano is determined to take over Earthrealm, one soul at a time. Assisted by a trio of...	Kano (voice)	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2022	TV The ABC Of The ABC Of... an interview series, revisits the pasts of famous Australians delving deep to uncover hidden archival gems, exploring...	Self - Host	Not rated
2022	Movie Elvis The life story of Elvis Presley as seen through the complicated relationship with his enigmatic manager, Colonel Tom Parker.	Hank Snow	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2022	TV PIECES OF HER A woman pieces together her mother's dark past after a violent attack in their small town brings hidden threats and...	Jasper Queller	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2022	TV Joe vs Carole When Carole Baskin, a big cat enthusiast, learns that when fellow exotic animal lover Joe "Exotic" Schreibvogel is breeding and...	Don Lewis	TMDB 4.1 / 10
2021	TV The Moth Effect A satirical six-part sketch comedy.	Unknown character	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2021	TV The Moth Effect A satirical six-part sketch comedy.	Simon	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2021	Movie Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway Peter Rabbit runs away from his human family when he learns they are going to portray him in a bad...	Johnny Town-Mouse (voice)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2020	Movie The Furnace To escape the outback, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown...	Mal	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2020	Movie Dirt Music Georgie is slowly suffocating in a loveless marriage to fishing tycoon Jim Buckridge. Handsome poacher Lu is an irresistible symbol...	Jim	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2019	TV Les Norton Set in 1985, the series will follow the exploits of a country bloke from outback Queensland. On the run from...	Price Galese	TMDB 8.4 / 10
2019	Movie Believe A journey of love and finding ones true self in a time of crisis.	Robert	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2018	Movie Nekrotronic A man discovers that he is part of a secret sect of magical beings who hunt down and destroy demons...	Luther	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2018	Movie In Like Flynn A mostly true account of future Hollywood star Errol Flynn's sea adventures in the early thirties, sailing from Australia to...	Travers	TMDB 4.9 / 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...	Johnny Town-Mouse (voice)	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2018	TV Romper Stomper A high stakes drama that follows a new generation of far right activists, their Anti-Fascist counterparts, and its impact on...	Jago Zoric	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2017	TV Wake in Fright John Grant is returning to Sydney after a year teaching at a one-classroom school in the Outback. Shortly after hitting...	Jock Crawford	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2017	Movie Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Thrust into an all-new adventure, a down-on-his-luck Capt. Jack Sparrow feels the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when...	Scarfield	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2017	Movie Beyond the Known World Recently divorced Carl and Julie are not on good terms. When their 19-year-old daughter goes missing in India, they must...	Carl Hansen	TMDB 4.2 / 10
2017	TV Marvel's Iron Fist Danny Rand resurfaces 15 years after being presumed dead. Now, with the power of the Iron Fist, he seeks to...	Harold Meachum	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2017	Movie The Wall Life as they knew it was all soon to end, when the darkness arrived and began to descend.	Narrator	Not rated
2016	Movie Lion A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges...	John Brierley	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2016	TV Anh's Brush with Fame Comedian Anh Do loves to paint portraits and loves getting to know people, this new series combines the two.	Himself	Not rated
2016	Movie Goldstone Indigenous Detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on a missing persons inquiry. What seems like a...	Johnny	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2016	Movie Ka-Ching! Pokie Nation In this ground-breaking expose, industry insiders go on the record to explain how carefully Pokies are programmed for addiction. They’re...	Self (Narrator)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2015	Movie Blinky Bill the Movie Blinky Bill is a little koala with a big imagination. An adventurer at heart, he dreams of leaving the little...	Jacko (voice)	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2015	Movie Force of Destiny A journey of love and hope, of courage and sacrifice, and one man's miraculous salvation through a life-saving liver transplant....	Robert	Not rated
2015	TV Banished Banished is a British period drama television serial created by Jimmy McGovern. The seven-part serial first aired on BBC Two...	Governor Arthur Phillip	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2015	Movie Oscar Wilde's the Nightingale and the Rose A nightingale bird discovers a true lover when she witnesses a young university student talk with great passion about his...	Red Rose	TMDB 8.6 / 10
2014	TV The Code The Code is a drama series which tells tells the story of two brothers who discover some information that those...	Ian Bradley	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2014	Movie Paper Planes Dylan discovers he has a talent for making paper planes. He has a chance to compete in a world championship,...	Patrick (Jason's Father)	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2014	Movie Aussie Rules the World Australia’s national game is under threat from all world sports. Now the AFL must find new ways to survive in...	Narrator	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2014	Movie 300: Rise of an Empire Greek general Themistocles attempts to unite all of Greece by leading the charge that will change the course of the...	Dillios	TMDB 6.1 / 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...	Julian McMahon	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2013	TV Top of the Lake A woman haunted by her past, Detective Robin Griffin, investigates complex and unsettling cases.	Det. Al Parker	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2013	TV Making Couples Happy Four couples on the verge of breaking up enter relationship rehab for a marriage overhaul. Led by team of positive...	Narrator (voice)	Not rated
2012	Movie Dripping in Chocolate When Detective Bennett O'Mara finds a chocolate wrapper on a strangled girl, it leads him to enigmatic chocolatier Juliana Lovece....	Detective Bennett O'Mara	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2012	Movie A Cautionary Tail A little girl is born with a tail that expresses her emotions. As a child, her parents celebrate their daughter's...	Narrator	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2011	Movie On Borrowed Time Auteur filmmaker Paul Cox contemplates his own mortality and his life's work as he wits for a life saving liver...	Self / Narrator (voice)	TMDB 5.3 / 10
2011	TV Killing Time Killing Time is an Australian television drama series on TV1 subscription television channel which first screened in 2011. It is...	Andrew Fraser	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2010	Movie True Guardians of the Earth Rico Rodríguez from "Modern Family" and David Wenham from "Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole" explore the lives,...	Himself	Not rated
2010	Movie Oranges and Sunshine The story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovers one of the most significant social scandals in...	Len	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2010	Movie Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole When a young owl is abducted by an evil Owl army, he must escape with new-found friends and seek the...	Digger (voice)	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2010	Movie Glenn Owen Dodds Michael Radcliffe was catching the bus this morning, like he does every day of his everyday life. He didn't expect...	Glenn Owen Dodds	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2009	Movie Pope Joan A 9th century woman of English extraction born in the German city of Ingelheim disguises herself as a man and...	Gerold	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2009	Movie Public Enemies Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a...	Harry 'Pete' Pierpont	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2009	TV Deadliest Warrior Deadliest Warrior was a television program in which information on historical or modern warriors and their weapons are used to...	Narrator	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...	Neil Fletcher	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2008	Movie The Children of Huang Shi About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned...	Barnes	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2008	Movie Married Life A very gentle middle-aged man is married, but when he falls in love with another woman, he decides that to...	John O'Brien	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2007	Movie 300 A story very loosely based the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, where the King of Sparta led his army against...	Dilios/Narrator	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2006	TV Answered by Fire A two-part television film based on the 1999 East Timor conflicts that led to East Timor's independence.	Mark Waldman	TMDB 2.0 / 10
2006	Movie Answered by Fire Mark Waldman (David Wenham) is an Australian policeman who volunteers for the United Nations mission in East Timor. Put in...	Mark Waldman	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2006	Movie Steve Irwin: He Changed Our World Australia says goodbye to The Crocodile Hunter	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2005	Movie The Proposition In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his younger brother from...	Eden Fletcher	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2005	Movie Three Dollars Eddie is a principled man, with a wife, a daughter and a mortgage and leads a seemingly stable and happy...	Eddie Harnovey	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2005	Movie Basilisk Stare A film about obsession, sexuality, devotion and paranoia.	Dave	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2004	Movie A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King' A documentary about the making of 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'.	Self	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2004	Movie The Brush-Off The political adviser to Australia's Minister of the Arts investigates the suspicious death of a disgruntled artist.	Murray Whelan	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2004	Movie Stiff An amusing and entertaining film, "Stiff" showcases David Wenham as Murray Whelan, political fixer and amateur investigator. An adaption of...	Murray Whelan	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2004	Movie Van Helsing: The London Assignment It tells of the events before the film, in which monster hunter Gabriel Van Helsing travels to London to investigate...	Carl (voice)	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2004	Movie Van Helsing Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating...	Carl	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2004	Movie The Making of 'The Return of the King' A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of 2003's "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King." Created by...	Self	TMDB 8.8 / 10
2003	Movie The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light...	Faramir	TMDB 8.5 / 10
2003	Movie Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King Documentary exploring the parallels between 'The Return of the King' and real events and people in history.	Self	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2003	Movie From Book to Script: Finding the Story From Book to Script - Finding the Story is a 19-minute documentary discussing the how the plot lines of J.R.R....	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2003	Movie Gettin' Square Gettin' Square is about starting over, keeping clean and going straight. Barry Wirth is fresh out of prison and determined...	Johnny Francis 'Spit' Spitieri	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2003	TV After the Deluge Follows the stories of the four men of the Kirby family. As Alex's marriage breaks apart, Toby tries desperately to...	Alex Kirby	TMDB 4.3 / 10
2003	Movie After the Deluge Follows the stories of the four men of the Kirby family. As Alex's marriage breaks apart, Toby tries desperately to...	Alex	Not rated
2003	Movie The Making of 'The Two Towers' A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of 2002's "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers." Created by filmmaker Costa...	Unknown character	TMDB 8.8 / 10
2003	Movie Shot down over the Soviet Union The reconnaissance flights of the Americans into East Block airspace were more numerous and more dangerous than originally claimed. From...	Unknown character	Not rated
2002	Movie The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Frodo Baggins and the other members of the Fellowship continue on their sacred quest to destroy the One Ring--but on...	Faramir	TMDB 8.4 / 10
2002	Movie Pure A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the...	Lenny	TMDB 6.1 / 10
2002	Movie The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course Steve Irwin, AKA The Crocodile Hunter, has avoided the death-roll and saved a croc from poachers. But what he doesn't...	Sam Flynn	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2001	Movie The Bank The Bank, a world ripe with avarice and corruption, where O'Reilly and his ilk can thrive and honest Aussie battlers...	Jim Doyle	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2001	Movie Dust Two parallel tales of redemption, a century apart. In the New York storyline, Edge hunts for Angela's gold to pay...	Luke	TMDB 5.5 / 10
2001	Movie Russian Doll A private detective agrees to marry his best friend's mistress to keep her from being deported.	Ethan	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2001	Movie Moulin Rouge! A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp...	Audrey	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2000	Movie Better Than Sex After a one-night stand a couple is faced with the terrifying possibility of what they really want.	Josh	TMDB 5.9 / 10
1999	TV Rove Rove, formerly Rove Live, was an Australian television variety show which premiered on the Nine Network on 22 September 1999,...	Self	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1999	Movie Molokai: The Story of Father Damien The true story of the 19th century Belgian priest, Father Damien, who volunteered to go to the island of Molokai,...	Damien	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1998	TV SeaChange SeaChange is a popular Australian television show that ran for 39 episodes from 1998 to 2000 on the ABC. It...	Daniel Della Bosca	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1998	Movie The Boys Brett Sprague is a violent and psychopathic man, who is released on parole after serving a sentence for assault. As...	Brett Sprague	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1998	Movie A Little Bit of Soul Richard and Kate are former lovers who are now working independently to find the secret of the aging process. Both...	Dr. Richard Shorkinghorn	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1998	Movie Dark City A man struggles with memories of his past, including a wife he cannot remember, in a nightmarish world with no...	Schreber's Assistant	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1997	TV Return to Jupiter Return to Jupiter was an Australian television series, a 13-part follow-up to Escape from Jupiter, It aired in Australia from...	Dr. Ghrobak	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1997	Movie Idiot Box Mick and Kev – bored, unemployed and aimless in the western suburbs of Sydney – decide to rob a bank,...	Bank Teller with a History	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1997	TV Simone de Beauvoir's Babies After a 20-year school reunion, a group of women - now in their late thirties - meet to reconsider where...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.0 / 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...	George	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1996	Movie Cosi Lewis, a young amateur theater director, is offered a job with a governmental program for the rehabilitation of mentally ill...	Doug	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1994	Movie No Escape In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates:...	Hotel Guard	TMDB 6.2 / 10
1993	TV Blue Heelers Blue Heelers was one of Australia's longest running weekly television drama series. Blue Heelers is a police drama series set...	William Cassidy	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1992	Movie Greenkeeping An ex-convict pays for his wife's marijuana by keeping the green at a lawn-bowling club	Trevor	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1992	Movie Seeing Red A mystery, a comedy with an undercurrant of terror, about the expose of scandal in big business transactions and how...	Frank No. 2	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1991	TV Police Rescue Police Rescue was an Australian television series The series dealt with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad based in...	Ferret	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1987	TV Rafferty's Rules Rafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the Seven Network. Rafferty's Rules...	Daniel Matthieson	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1987	TV Rafferty's Rules Rafferty's Rules was an Australian television drama series which ran from 1987 to 1990 on the Seven Network. Rafferty's Rules...	Thug 1	TMDB 8.0 / 10
TBA	Movie Subversion A once-promising Naval commander is blackmailed by a cartel-like operation into piloting a dangerous submarine carrying illegal cargo across international...	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie Tran the Man Short film and early collaboration between rowan woods and david wenham.	Raymond "Tran" Moss	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2025	Movie Spit Spitteri finds himself locked up in an immigration detention centre upon his return to Australia. With old enemies on his...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2025	Movie Spit Spitteri finds himself locked up in an immigration detention centre upon his return to Australia. With old enemies on his...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2020	Movie The Furnace To escape the outback, a young Afghan cameleer falls in with a mysterious bushman on the run with stolen Crown...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2018	Movie Ellipsis In the middle of a crowded city the paths of two strangers, a man and a woman, collide. This accidental,...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2018	Movie Ellipsis In the middle of a crowded city the paths of two strangers, a man and a woman, collide. This accidental,...	Writer Writing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2018	Movie Ellipsis In the middle of a crowded city the paths of two strangers, a man and a woman, collide. This accidental,...	Director Directing	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2013	Movie The Turning Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning...	Writer Writing	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2013	Movie The Turning Seventeen talented Australian directors from diverse artistic disciplines each create a chapter of the hauntingly beautiful novel by multi award-winning...	Director Directing	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2004	Movie The Brush-Off The political adviser to Australia's Minister of the Arts investigates the suspicious death of a disgruntled artist.	Associate Producer Production	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2004	Movie Stiff An amusing and entertaining film, "Stiff" showcases David Wenham as Murray Whelan, political fixer and amateur investigator. An adaption of...	Associate Producer Production	TMDB 7.9 / 10
1998	Movie The Boys Brett Sprague is a violent and psychopathic man, who is released on parole after serving a sentence for assault. As...	Producer Production	TMDB 6.7 / 10

Spit

2025 / TMDB 6.7

Combat Wombat: Back 2 Back

2024 / TMDB 6.3

Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind

2022 / TMDB 7.7

Elvis

2022 / TMDB 7.5

Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway

2021 / TMDB 7.0

The Furnace

2020 / TMDB 6.9

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David Wenham's career highlights include his roles in 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy, '300,' and 'Lion.' He has also appeared in acclaimed Australian films and television series, establishing a strong presence in both domestic and international cinema.

Has David Wenham won any awards?

What was David Wenham's first film?

What are David Wenham's most successful films?

What is known about David Wenham's personal life?

What is David Wenham's estimated net worth?

What are some milestones in David Wenham's filmography?

Is David Wenham involved in any charitable work?