Danny Roberts (Australian actor)

Danny Roberts
Born
Daniel Roberts

(1966-01-27) 27 January 1966 (age 58)
OccupationActor
Years active1983–present
Known forSons and Daughters
(1983–1987)
Home and Away
(1997, 2011–2012, 2015)
Spouse
Lindsay Neil
(m. 1989)
Children2 including David Jones-Roberts

Daniel Roberts (born 27 January 1966), also credited as Danny Roberts, is an Australian actor. He is perhaps best known for his roles as Ailsa Stewart's younger creepy brother Tony O'Rourke in early January 1997, Dennis Harling from September 2011 until February 2012, and Gavin Cooper from 12 to 24 November 2015 in Home and Away.

Early life

Roberts was born in Perth, Western Australia on 27 January 1966.[citation needed] He started with the Patch Theatre at age 12, and was in the first round at Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 1979.

Acting career

Roberts moved to Melbourne in 1982 where he appeared in Cop Shop and The Sullivans. He then played a lead role in the soap opera Waterloo Station (1983), but the series was cancelled after a few months on air. He became a major cast member in Sons and Daughters, playing Andy Green from 1983 until the series ended in 1987.

Roberts went on to a regular role in soap opera The Power, The Passion, which ran for eight months in 1989. After the series was cancelled he moved to Byron Bay, New South Wales, where he founded the Australian Theatre Company in 1991. He was artistic director of the company until 1995. Following this, he appeared in the series Fire, playing Georgie Parker's character's brother, Ted Cartright. He also played Nate's father Gavin Cooper on Home and Away.

Roberts' television credits include Blue Heelers, Murder Call, Stingers, Young Lions, Big Sky and the first two seasons of Underbelly.

His film credits include Blackwater Trail, Walking on Water, Beneath Clouds, Mission: Impossible 2, and Dreamland

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Type
1995 Blackwater Trail Davies TV movie
1995 The Last Bullet Williams TV movie
1999 Close Contact Wyatt TV movie
2000 House! Andy Feature film
2000 Mission: Impossible 2 Co-pilot Feature film
2002 Walking on Water Carl Feature film
2002 Beneath Clouds Feature film
2004 What Grown-Ups Know Maurice Short film
2004 The Silence David Dawkins TV movie
2009 Invasion The Stranger Short film
2010 Dreamland Dan Freeman Feature film
2011 Killer Elite Simon McCann Feature film
2013 Mystery Road Macca Feature film

Television

Year Title Role Type
Cop Shop TV series
The Sullivans TV series
1983 Waterloo Station Trevor Brown TV series
1983-87 Sons and Daughters Andy Green TV series, 559 episodes
1989 The Power, The Passion Samuel Wright TV series
1995 Fire Ted Cartwright TV series, 5 episodes
1996 Blue Heelers Craig Robertson TV series, 1 episode: "Dead and Alive"
1997 Home and Away Tony O'Rourke TV series, 2 episodes
1997 Fallen Angels Quentin TV series, 1 episode: "In Defence of Electricity"
1997 Murder Call Matt Propert TV series, 1 episode: "Black Friday"
1998 All Saints Mr Jennings TV series, season 1, 1 episode: "Think Positive"
1999 Big Sky Johnny TV series, 2 episodes
2001 Water Rats Fred Pearson TV series, 1 episode
2002 Jeopardy Policeman TV series, 1 episode: "Pilot"
2002 Young Lions Ross Kennedy TV miniseries, 1 episode: "Lone Star Blues"
2004 All Saints David McLachlan TV series, season 7, 1 episode: "Peripheral Vision"
2004 Stingers Jake Taylor TV series, 3 episodes
2005 McLeod's Daughters Joe Kershaw TV series, 1 episode: "Do You Read Me...?"
2009 Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities James 'Jimbo' Egan TV series, 8 episodes
2010 Underbelly: The Golden Mile James 'Jimbo' Egan TV series, 13 episodes
2010 Cops L.A.C. Brett TV series, 1 episode: "Illegal Dumping"
2011 Rescue: Special Ops Graham Cooper TV series, 1 episode: "The Dunes"
2011 Wild Boys Mulligan Jones TV series, 1 episode
2011-12 Home and Away Dennis Harling TV series, 14 episodes
2014 Old School Andy Muir TV miniseries, 1 episode: "Her Weight in Gold"
2015 Home and Away Gavin Cooper TV series, 6 episodes
2018 Tidelands Grayson Raxter TV series, 4 episodes

Personal life

After Sons and Daughters, Roberts travelled to the United States, where he met his future wife Lindsay Neil. They married in 1989. They had two children. His son David appeared in Home and Away as Xavier Austin from 2008 until 2013.[1]

References

  1. ^ TV Week 10–16 January 2009.