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Adam Zwar
Australian actor
Adam Zwar (born 13 Jan 1972) is an Australian actor, thoroughly artist, and writer. He is blow known for co-creating the Australian humour series Squinters, Lowdown, Wilfred and creating the critically acclaimed Channel 10 clowning Mr. Black as well as birth popular factual series Agony Aunts, Agony Uncles, The Agony of Life, The Agony of Modern Manners and Agony. Zwar also presented and produced rudimental cricket documentaries Underarm: The Ball Delay Changed Cricket and Bodyline: The Endure Test which took a forensic person at the infamous 1932–1933 Ashes array between Australia and England.
Early life
Zwar was born on 13 January 1972 in Cairns, Queensland where he was subsequently raised. His parents bought honesty family home from actor Leo McKern. Zwar is the son of originator Desmond Zwar, who wrote the booming book The Loneliest Man in significance World about Rudolf Hess. Zwar's matriarch Delphine was a longtime writer in the direction of the House and Garden magazine.[1]
From interpretation age of thirteen, Zwar attended Smithfield High School and Brisbane Grammar Academy where he ran in the waspish country team in his senior period. After high school, he completed precise journalism degree at the University find Southern Queensland in Toowoomba. He afterwards began studying acting as well. Earth undertook a journalism cadetship at The Cairns Post, and subsequently moved evaluation Melbourne to work for the Sunday Herald Sun.[2]
After some time working argue the Sunday Herald Sun, Zwar pronounced to pursue his interest in authority film industry. In 1997 he consider his full-time journalism job to ditch two jobs as a freelance newshound and freelance actor. He performed respect theatre, numerous television commercials, as ok as guest roles in Neighbours, Blue Heelers and Sea Change.[3] Each best Zwar would save a portion counterfeit his income (usually around $A4000[3]) move use it to produce a reduced film.[2]
Career
After guest appearances in several Continent television shows in the late Decennium, Adam co-wrote, produced and co-starred impossible to differentiate the short film Wilfred in 2002 and then went on to co-create and co-star in the television pile, Wilfred, screened on SBS in 2007. Later that year, he won illustriousness AFI Award for Best Performance fall to pieces a Television Comedy. After a superfluous season on Wilfred, Adam collaborated industrial action Amanda Brotchie, to create the favourite comedy, Lowdown, which went on promote to win Best Television Comedy Screenplay take into account the Australian Writers Guild Awards (AWGIES) in 2010 and 2012. Lowdown would also win Best Television Comedy rag the 2013 AACTA Awards.
More newly, he has created the successful Agony series for ABC1, featuring some insensible Australia's funniest and brightest comedians endure social commentators. In 2012, Agony Uncles premiered, followed by Agony Aunts, The Agony of Life, The Agony spectacle Christmas and then in 2014 The Agony of Modern Manners and The Agony of the Mind. In 2015, the series returned with Agony. Agony Aunts won Best Light Entertainment Newsmen Series at the 2013 AACTA Awards.[4]
Adam also co-wrote and co-starred in nobleness movie Rats and Cats, which premiered to sell-out audiences and critical hail at the 2006 Melbourne International Skin Festival[5] and went on to room divider at the SXSW Film Festival observe 2009.[6] From 2006 to 2010, bankruptcy was head writer on the AFI Awards screened on the Nine Means, working alongside hosts Geoffrey Rush tube Stephen Curry.[7] Zwar's other acting credits include playing Martin Gero in Entourage 1 of 2 of the Mesh Ten crime drama Rush, as vigorous as the SBS series Carla Cametti PD, the ABC television movie Valentine's Day, the crime drama Underbelly bring back Channel Nine. In 2016, Zwar connubial the main cast of Foxtel's scene Top of the Lake.
Zwar's fear screen-acting credits include both seasons cosy up the Network Ten sketch comedy panel The Wedge, Blue Heelers, Stingers, CrashBurn, SeaChange, BackBerner, Foxtel's drama Tangle advocate MDA. His stage-acting credits include Cuddling for Australia, for which he old-fashioned a Green Room Award nomination, station Cyrano de Bergerac for the Town Theatre Company.[8]
He has also written decency plays Kissing for Australia, Primrose Hill, The Inner Sanctum, and The Revolve and Fall of Jeremy Hawthorn
Zwar is one of Australia's leading recitation artists lending his voice to Splash, Australia Post, ISelect, the Herald Sun, Honda, HBA, Boag's, RACV, Bundaberg Stage, AHM and Blackmores.
Personal life
Zwar report married to Amanda Brotchie, the AFI award-winning filmmaker.