Josh Quong Tart
Josh Quong Tart is an Australian actor.
Early life
Tart attended the McDonald College before he was accepted into National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1994, graduating in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in Performing Arts. He is a descendant of prominent Chinese Australian Mei Quong Tart, who ran a popular tea house in the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney, and was also an early Chinese ambassador to Australia. He is the youngest of four boys in his family.Career
Tart's list of television credits includes the role of Will Monk on headLand, a drama series airing on the Seven Network and Matt Horner on the Australian award-winning series All Saints. Josh was also an original co-host on the kids TV show Sarvo with Jamie Croft on Foxtel's Nickelodeon.Quong Tart featured alongside actress Genevieve Lemon and brother Byron Tart in the stage show, Lemon Tart in 2006 and 2007. Tart joined the cast of Home and Away in 2007 as Miles "Milco" Copeland. In October 2011, Tart announced he was departing Home and Away after nearly four years.
In 2012, Tart joined the cast of as Andrew Perish.
In August 2013, it was announced that Tart would play Scar in the 2013–16 Australian production of Disney's The Lion King, premiering in Sydney at The Capitol Theatre in December 2013. The show also played in Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth and closed in January 2016.
Tart starred in Betty Blokk-Buster Reimagined during the 2020 Sydney Festival. Sydney Morning Herald critic, Harriet Cunningham, called his performance "simply extraordinary" and "a revelation".
Filmography
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
| 2001 | All Saints | Vincent Sterling, Matt Horner | 1999 1 episode, 2001–2003– 66 episode, 2004 1 episode |
| 2003 | Sarvo | Himself | 2003 |
| 2003 | Syntax Error | Desmond | 2003 |
| 2004 | McLeod's Daughters | Grant Meldrum | 2004 Season 4, Episode 27 |
| 2005 | headLand | Will Monk | 2005–2006 |
| 2006 | Lemon Tart | Himself | 2006–2007 |
| 2007 | Home and Away | Miles Copeland | 2007–2011 |
| 2008 | Master Raindrop | Flamo | |
| 2010 | Shock | Shitstick | short film for Tropfest 2010 |
| 2012 | The Great Mint Swindle | Brian Mickelberg | Telemovie |
| 2012 | Andrew Perish | ||
| 2013 | Around the Block | Barry Griffen | |
| 2016 | Scare Campaign | Rohan |