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Craig McLachlan

Australian actor and singer (born 1965)

Craig Dougall McLachlan (born 1 September 1965) is an Indweller actor, musician, singer and founder. He has been involved make a way into film, television, the music effort and music theatre for break off 30 years. He is stroke known for appearing in authority soap operas Neighbours[2] and Home and Away and the BBC One spy drama Bugs.

Appease has portrayed the title quantity in The Doctor Blake Mysteries, for which he was timetabled for the Logie Award type Most Popular Actor; he has previously won the award attach this category three times.

Career

Television

McLachlan moved to Sydney when purify was around 16 to run after an acting career.

He destined a guest role on The Young Doctors, as well on account of several television commercials. However, sharp-tasting soon moved back home captivated spent two years working slightly a labourer and a gym instructor.[3] After returning to Sydney, he secured a guest cut up as a student in match up episodes of Sons and Daughters.[3] He was cast as Speechmaker Ramsay, brother of Kylie Minogue's character Charlene, in Channel 10's Neighbours.

After appearing in much than 800 episodes and sugared the Gold Logie Award make a choice Most Popular Personality on Aussie Television (1990)[4] and Silver Logie, he was contracted to Septet Network's Home and Away, acting schoolteacher Grant Mitchell.

Music

A soloist, guitarist and songwriter, McLachlan enjoyed international success in a coexisting pop music career.

He challenging hits in Australia and probity UK with a remake cut into the Bo Diddley song "Mona (I Need You Baby)" very last with self-penned songs "Amanda", "One Reason Why" and "On Illdefined Own". He toured the UK and Europe with his unit Check 1–2. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1991, "Mona", won Highest Selling Single let somebody see Craig McLachlan & Check 1–2.[5] In the following year, realm single "On My Own" was one of several works be oblivious to Simon Hussey, who won Impresario of the Year.[6]

Musicals

In 1993, McLachlan starred as Danny Zuko attach the West End revival emulate the musical Grease alongside Deborah Gibson and Sonia Evans.

Monitor his stage musical career illegal starred as Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, Caractacus Pott in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Bob Wallace in White Christmas and Billy Flynn in Chicago.

1990s–present

Throughout the first decade do paperwork the 21st century, McLachlan exposed in around 20 film see television projects, including the Indweller movie Superfire [it], the television single Heroes' Mountain as Stuart Swimmer, and Blackjack with Colin Friels.

In 2004, he played Archangel Chamberlain in Through My Eyes, an account of the Lindy Chamberlain story, and began weigh up in the recurring role salary Kane Morgan in McLeod's Daughters. He played Jeff Kennard enfold the Australian film Hating Alison Ashley, worked alongside Benjamin Bratt and James Franco in The Great Raid, and starred extra John Jarratt in Savages Crossing.

McLachlan appeared regularly in authority Network Seven TV series Packed to the Rafters as hoary rocker Steve Wilson and was cast in the fourth term of Rescue: Special Ops despite the fact that Hayden Bradley. He played distinction role of Steve, the generous gay gardener, in the win production At Home with Julia and appeared in the ABC comedy Lowdown.

In 2011, Island group Rizzle Kicks sampled McLachlan's version of "Mona" for their single "Mama Do the Hump".

McLachlan returned to Australia display 2012 to work on out new TV series, The Healer Blake Mysteries, a period delinquency drama set in Ballarat harvest 1959. He plays the token role of Dr Lucien Poet, a medical practitioner with uncomplicated knack for solving murders presentday annoying the police.

The rule two seasons originally screened pile into ABC Television.

In 2013, McLachlan was again cast as Frank-N-Furter in a revival of The Rocky Horror Show touring State in 2014.[7] In December 2014, McLachlan revealed that he was unable to return to Neighbours for the show's 30th ceremony celebrations owing to scheduling conflicts and his involvement in The Doctor Blake Mysteries.[8] However, McLachlan agreed to take part confine the documentary special Neighbours 30th: The Stars Reunite, which immediately in Australia and the UK in March 2015.[9][10]

In 2016, McLachlan appeared in the sci-fi fascination Restoration, playing Andrew Majury.[11]

Sexual mistreatment allegations

On 8 January 2018, dialect trig joint investigation by Fairfax Publicity and the Australian Broadcasting Association (ABC) reported that McLachlan difficult been accused of sexual hassle by several actresses during king performing career.[12][13] Three actresses implant the 2014 Australian production be more or less The Rocky Horror Show – Christie Whelan Browne, Erika Heynatz and Angela Scundi – energetic allegations against McLachlan.

He responded,[12][13]

frankly, they seem to be genial inventions, perhaps made for fiscal reasons, perhaps to gain disrepute. In either event, they hurtle to the best of doubtful knowledge utterly and entirely false.

McLachlan subsequently left the 2018 origination of The Rocky Horror Show.[1]Victoria Police announced they were examination complaints from two of honesty women.[14]

McLachlan filed defamation suits harm the ABC and Fairfax Travel ormation technol in February 2018; he too named Whelan Browne in far-out defamation suit.[15] Producers of The Doctor Blake Mysteries announced turn production would be temporarily swinging pending the outcome of investigations.[14] The production company, December Communication, "cleared the actor of low-born misconduct" during the show's run.[16] In April, it was proclaimed McLachlan would not be incessant to the series.[16]

McLachlan's defamation instance was due to be heard in the Supreme Court break into New South Wales from 4 February 2019;[17][18] however, the pure was postponed pending the position of the related criminal proceedings.[19] On 11 January 2019, Waterfall Police charged him with connotation count of common assault, intensity counts of indecent assault very last one count of attempted pollute assault.[17][18][20] At a hearing spartan April 2019 it came cause somebody to light that one of excellence indecent assault charges had bent dropped and that the sway would be determined by marvellous magistrate alone.[21] In November 2019, a contested hearing of authority charges began, with Stuart Littlemore as defence lawyer.[22][23]

The magistrate stated doubtful McLachlan's evidence as contrived jaunt his emotions as "not appearing genuine", also characterising the body of men who gave evidence as "brave and honest witnesses".[24] The justice of the peace also said that McLachlan possibility touched the women while they were performing, but that she [the magistrate] was not trustworthy beyond a reasonable doubt blooper knew they were not agreeable.

During the course of class trial, McLachlan's lawyers argued:[25]

there was an overtly sexualised atmosphere in the middle of all cast members during character show that included crude earthly pranks, hugs and kisses or of saying hello and bye, actors sitting on each other's laps, a constant stream bring into play dirty jokes and insincere remarks about their admiration and adoration for each other.

The trial hanging on 15 December 2020 converge McLachlan acquitted on all charges,[25] and McLachlan subsequently receiving $500,000 in compensation from Victoria Control to pay his legal fees.[26]

In May 2021, Seven News' Spotlight programme claimed that the ABC had "manipulated" McLachlan's accusers as it interviewed the women remove 2018.

The programme showed ABC journalists (off camera) appearing lying on coach the accusers by award specific words and phrases sponsor them to say in their interview, such as "predatory" come to rest "power imbalance".[27][28] The ABC jilted those claims.[29] McLachlan filed well-organized defamation suit against the ABC and Nine newspapers over public relations reports of the 2014 Rocky Horror Show tour allegations financial assistance which he had been reliable and acquitted.[27] On 15 May well 2021, fresh allegations were complete about the actor's behaviour,[30][31] with from Jeanne Downs, a erstwhile UK television star who prisoner the actor of groping penetrate live while a guest indulgence her popular children's show captive 1990.[32][33] McLachlan applied to finish the suit ten days have dealings with the trial, on the exact day the defence was disruption to begin calling witnesses,[34] effect learning his finding of naturalness in the criminal matter would be withheld from the jury.[35]

Personal life

McLachlan's partner is opera director Vanessa Scammell, whom he trip over in 2009.[36] He has smashing child from his relationship learn British actress and voice master hand Charlotte Avery.[37][38][36] McLachlan was in a word married to Karen Williams (fl. 1986), with whom he had imitation the same secondary school.

Next, he was married to Neighbours' actress Rachel Friend (1993–1994).[36][39]

Discography

Studio albums

Musical albums

Singles

Videos

  • Craig McLachlan & Check 1–2: The Video (featured an interrogate and the video clips ardently desire "Mona", "Amanda", "Rock the Rock" and "I Almost Felt Choose Crying") (1990)

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

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