
Michael Sheasby
Actor · Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Michael Sheasby is an AFI/AACTA nominated actor, best known for his work in Mel Gibson's "Hacksaw Ridge", Jennifer Kent's "The Nightingale" and the BBC's "The Luminaries". Micheal was born in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and immigrated to Sydney, Australia with his family in 2001. After graduating from the National Institute of Dramatic Arts (NIDA) in 2010, Michael began his career leading on stage at the Sydney Opera House in roles such as King Henry in Shakespeare's Henry V, and Valentine Coverly in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia. Since turning his attention to screen, Michael has played roles such as Tex Lewis in Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge, Walter Moody in the BBC's The Luminaries, and Aidan Carrol in Jennifer Kent's The Nightingale which received the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2018, and was also selected for Sundance Film Festival 2019. Michael won the Casting Guild of Australia's Rising Star Award in 2018. In 2019, Michael was nominated for an AFI/ACCTA Award for Best Supporting Actor for his work in The Nightingale.
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Movie8.2DramaHistoryWWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people and becomes the first Conscientious Objector in American history to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Hacksaw Ridge
2016 · 15K votes
Movie7.0DramaThrillerIn 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.
The Nightingale
2018 · 700 votes
Movie5.9DramaAs Rockit grapples to understand why his Mum’s not coming home, he embarks on a magical holiday with his father, Bosch, only to discover they’re actually running from the law. Rockit finds a soulmate and then teenage love with Ash Ash, but it’s the ocean that gives him the security and calm he yearns from his parents. Ultimately Rockit is a boy nurtured and held by nature.
Bosch & Rockit
2022 · 17 votes
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London, 1917. As Virginia and Leonard Woolf painstakingly handprint their first publication, we journey into the stream of Virginia's mind as she is struck with paralysing anxiety, stopping the press in a bid for time.
MovieRomanceMysteryTwo strangers meet by chance in a highway-side motel but as their stay goes on, we begin to wonder if their meeting was by chance at all.
Two Ugly People
2025
MovieWhen a volatile young bartender shows up to work with a fresh black eye, he's challenged by his boss to drop his macho persona.
LOST BOY
2020
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TV7.7DramaSci-Fi & FantasyOn an epic adventure across a postapocalyptic world, a lovable boy who's part human and part deer searches for family and home with a gruff protector.
Sweet Tooth
2021 · 1.7K votes
TV8.1DramaCrimeIt's a tale of reinvention, betrayal, redemption, and love with a twist. Jack Dawkins is The Artful Dodger, whose pickpocketing fingers have become the skilled hands of a surgeon. He is torn between an impossible love and the criminal underworld he secretly craves. This will require Artfulness.
The Artful Dodger
2023 · 250 votes
TV7.0CrimeDramaThe brilliant and eclectic team of U.S. NCIS Agents and the Australian Federal Police (AFP) are grafted into a multi-national taskforce to keep naval crimes in check in the most contested patch of ocean on the planet.
NCIS: Sydney
2023 · 74 votes
TV9.1DramaRescue: Special Ops is an Australian television drama series that first screened on the Nine Network in 2009. Filmed in and around Sydney, the program is produced by Southern Star Group with the assistance of Screen Australia and the New South Wales Government. This drama series focuses on a team of experienced professional paramedics who specialise in rescue operations. It premiered on Sunday 2 August 2009, and the season finale of the first season aired on Sunday 25 October. A second season screened from 28 June 2010. The third and final season consisting of 22 episodes screened from 30 May 2011. The Nine Network has confirmed it will not be renewing Rescue Special Ops for a fourth season.
Rescue: Special Ops
2009 · 13 votes
TV5.3DramaThe lives of staff at the fictional Kings Cross Hospital and the wild streets of Darlinghurst in the 1960s. Joan Miller is a smart and sophisticated midwife who returns home from London to take a job at the Kings Cross Hospital. Dr Patrick McNaughton is a charismatic head of obstetrics at Kings Cross Hospital. Frances Bolton is the tough matron who also controls the running of Stanton House, a home for unwed pregnant young women.
Love Child
2014 · 13 votes