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Simon Baker
Simon Baker (born July 30, 1969) is an Australian actor and director.
Born July 30, 1969 Launceston, Tasmania, Australia1 movie on MoviHero
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Simon Baker (born July 30, 1969) is an Australian actor and director. In his television acting career, he is best known for his lead role in the CBS television series The Mentalist as Patrick Jane and as Nicholas Fallin in The Guardian. In his film acting career, he is best known for the lead role of Riley Denbo in Land of the Dead and Christian Thompson in the film adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada, based on the 2003 novel of the same name. Simon Baker was born to a high school English teacher, Elizabeth Labberton, and a groundskeeper/mechanic, Barry Baker, on 30 July 1969, in Launceston, Tasmania. He was raised as a Roman Catholic. His parents divorced while he was still young. His mother later married Tom Denny, a butcher. Simon Baker also has a sister, currently a doctor in Australia, and three younger half brothers. …
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By 1972, the family had moved from Launceston to Ballina, New South Wales, where Baker's parents hoped to secure better paying jobs. In 1986, he graduated from Ballina High School as Simon Baker-Denny, after completing his primary school education at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Primary School, also in Ballina.
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- 2023LimboTravis Hurley
- 2022BlazeProducer · Luke
- 2021High GroundTravis
- 2018Here and NowNick
- 2017BreathProducer · Director · Writer · Sando
- 2013I Give It a YearGuy
- 2011Margin CallJared Cohen
- 2010Going Vertical: The Short Board RevolutionNarrator
- 2010The Killer Inside MeHoward Hendricks
- 2009Women in TroubleTravis McPherson
- 2009Not ForgottenJack Bishop
- 2009The LodgerMalcolm
- 2007Sex and Death 101Roderick Blank
- 2006Something NewBrian Kelly
- 2005Land of the DeadRiley
- 2005The Ring TwoMax Rourke
- 2004Book of LoveDavid Walker
- 2004BurstDirector
- 2001The Affair of the NecklaceRétaux de Vilette
- 2000Red PlanetChip Pettengill
- 2000Sunset StripMichael Scott
- 1999Ride with the DevilGeorge Clyde
- 1999RestaurantKenny
- 1999Secret Men's BusinessAndy Greville
- 1998Love from Ground ZeroEric
- 1998Judas KissJunior Armstrong
- 1997Most WantedStephen Barnes
- 1997L.A. ConfidentialMatt Reynolds
- 1994Which Way to the WarPrivate Stan Hawke
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