Steve Le Marquand


Steve Le Marquand is an Australian-born actor, known both locally and internationally for his film and stage work.

Personal life

Born in Perth, Western Australia in 1967, his family moved to Sydney when he was quite young.
His younger sister is the columnist and media commentator Sarrah Le Marquand.
He is married to Australian actress and singer Pippa Grandison and they have a daughter together, Charlie.

Career

Prior to acting, Le Marquand motorcycled his way around Australia, working on various cattle stations, docks, pubs, barges and melon farms. He then studied performing arts at Penrith in Sydney's outer west at the University of Western Sydney before stumbling across an agent in Penny Williams in 1992.
His first job was a TV commercial for Arnott's Ruffles which was banned a day after its release for sacrilege. His second job was on the Australian TV series Police Rescue and since then he has played an assortment of thugs, baddies, larrikins and cops in a number of TV shows, including Janet King; ', Rake, Laid, All Saints, Farscape, Crash Palace, Young Lions, Blue Heelers, Water Rats, Big Sky, G.P., Murder Call, Home and Away, Wildside, and the ABC mini-series A Difficult Woman. He played the lead role of Tony Piccolo in the Movie Extra hit Small Time Gangster for which he received an ASTRA Award nomination for Most Outstanding Actor.
On film he has featured as a reclusive cattle station worker in Kriv Stender's '; a down and out ex Rugby League star in Heath Davis' Broke; a sleazy, charismatic cult leader in Nick Matthews' One Eyed Girl; a dodgy drug dealer in Stephan Elliott's A Few Best Men; a battle hardened sergeant in Beneath Hill 60 ; a snarly stockbroker in 2008's surprise hit, Men's Group; a tall thug in Jeremy Sims’ Last Train to Freo ; a WWII digger in Kokoda; a larrikin Aussie climber in Martin Campbell's Vertical Limit; a clumsy, shotty-loving bank robber in Gregor Jordan's Two Hands; a moustachioed cop in David Caesar's Mullet; a weird-arsed beachcomber in Lost Things and an all-singing-all-dancing sailor in Disney’s remake of South Pacific.
He won the Nicole Kidman Best Actor Award at Tropfest 1996 for short film Cliché, and was also the lead actor in the Tropfest 2005 hit, Bomb.
Le Marquand has been seen on stage in Gaybies for Darlinghurst Theatre; Jasper Jones, Death Of A Salesman, Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll, Paul, The Spook, Buried Child and Waiting For Godot for Belvoir; Holy Day for the Sydney Theatre Company, Don’s Party for the Melbourne Theatre Co and STC; Ugly Mugs, Songket and The Return for Griffin Theatre; and was a member of the STC's Actors' Company where he appeared in Tales From The Vienna Woods; The Serpents Teeth; Gallipoli and The War Of The Roses with the Company.
Le Marquand co-wrote, produced, directed and starred in the hugely successful theatre production He Died With A Felafel In His Hand, which had its humble beginnings at Rozelle's Bridge Hotel in Sydney during 1995 before running for several years in Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Lismore, Hobart, Brisbane, Edinburgh, Toronto, New York, Wagga Wagga and Hong Kong. The stage adaptation's 'rough as guts' humour saw it become the longest running play in Australian history.
He and his wife, Pippa Grandison, have established an acting and singing coaching business on the Central Coast of NSW called Central Coast Performance and Audition Coaching.