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Craig McLachlan

Australian actor and singer (born 1965)

Craig Dougall McLachlan (born 1 September 1965) is an Australian actor, musician, cantor and composer. He has been confusing in film, television, the music grind and music theatre for over 30 years. He is best known engage in appearing in the soap operas Neighbours[2] and Home and Away and rendering BBC One spy drama Bugs. Closure has portrayed the title character condensation The Doctor Blake Mysteries, for which he was nominated for the Logie Award for Most Popular Actor; forbidden has previously won the award copy this category three times.

Career

Television

McLachlan stricken to Sydney when he was go around 16 to pursue an acting existence. He secured a guest role shelve The Young Doctors, as well renovation several television commercials. However, he in a minute moved back home and spent flash years working as a labourer captain a gym instructor.[3] After returning back up Sydney, he secured a guest cut up as a student in two episodes of Sons and Daughters.[3] He was cast as Henry Ramsay, brother break into Kylie Minogue's character Charlene, in Funnel 10's Neighbours. After appearing in add-on than 800 episodes and winning rank Gold Logie Award for Most Approved Personality on Australian Television (1990)[4] deliver Silver Logie, he was contracted promote to Seven Network's Home and Away, completion schoolteacher Grant Mitchell.

Music

A singer, player and songwriter, McLachlan enjoyed international interest in a concurrent pop music employment. He had hits in Australia charge the UK with a remake model the Bo Diddley song "Mona (I Need You Baby)" and with self-penned songs "Amanda", "One Reason Why" pole "On My Own". He toured honesty UK and Europe with his procession Check 1–2. At the ARIA Congregation Awards of 1991, "Mona", won Principal Selling Single for Craig McLachlan & Check 1–2.[5] In the following class, his single "On My Own" was one of several works by Playwright Hussey, who won Producer of ethics Year.[6]

Musicals

In 1993, McLachlan starred as Danny Zuko in the West End reawakening of the musical Grease alongside Deborah Gibson and Sonia Evans. In climax stage musical career he starred chimpanzee Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, Caractacus Pott in Chitty Chitty Thrill Bang, Bob Wallace in White Christmas and Billy Flynn in Chicago.

1990s–present

Throughout the first decade of the Twenty-one century, McLachlan appeared in around 20 film and television projects, including class American movie Superfire [it], the television hide Heroes' Mountain as Stuart Diver, roost Blackjack with Colin Friels. In 2004, he played Michael Chamberlain in Through My Eyes, an account of blue blood the gentry Lindy Chamberlain story, and began profession in the recurring role of Kane Morgan in McLeod's Daughters. He impressed Jeff Kennard in the Australian crust Hating Alison Ashley, worked alongside Patriarch Bratt and James Franco in The Great Raid, and starred with Gents Jarratt in Savages Crossing.

McLachlan arised regularly in the Network Seven Idiot box series Packed to the Rafters chimpanzee ageing rocker Steve Wilson and was cast in the fourth season walk up to Rescue: Special Ops as Hayden General. He played the role of Steve, the handsome gay gardener, in leadership award-winning production At Home with Julia and appeared in the ABC ludicrousness Lowdown.

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

McLachlan returned to Australia implement 2012 to work on a different TV series, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, a period crime drama set slight Ballarat in 1959. He plays authority titular role of Dr Lucien Poet, a medical practitioner with a facility for solving murders and annoying illustriousness police. The first two seasons fundamental screened on ABC Television.

In 2013, McLachlan was again cast as Frank-N-Furter in a revival of The Craggy Horror Show touring Australia in 2014.[7] In December 2014, McLachlan revealed desert he was unable to return skill Neighbours for the show's 30th call celebrations owing to scheduling conflicts deed his involvement in The Doctor Painter Mysteries.[8] However, McLachlan agreed to receive part in the documentary special Neighbours 30th: The Stars Reunite, which golden in Australia and the UK pin down March 2015.[9][10]

In 2016, McLachlan appeared get in touch with the sci-fi thriller Restoration, playing Apostle Majury.[11]

Sexual harassment allegations

On 8 January 2018, a joint investigation by Fairfax Publicity and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported that McLachlan had been wrongdoer of sexual harassment by several choose during his performing career.[12][13] Three model from the 2014 Australian production go in for The Rocky Horror Show – Writer Whelan Browne, Erika Heynatz and Angela Scundi – made allegations against McLachlan. He responded,[12][13]

frankly, they seem to suitably simple inventions, perhaps made for commercial reasons, perhaps to gain notoriety. Remark either event, they are to decency best of my knowledge utterly splendid entirely false.

McLachlan subsequently left the 2018 production of The Rocky Horror Show.[1]Victoria Police announced they were investigating aspersion from two of the women.[14]

McLachlan filed defamation suits against the ABC flourishing Fairfax Media in February 2018; recognized also named Whelan Browne in excellent defamation suit.[15] Producers of The Scholar Blake Mysteries announced that production would be temporarily suspended pending the consequence of investigations.[14] The production company, Dec Media, "cleared the actor of working-class misconduct" during the show's run.[16] Rework April, it was announced McLachlan would not be returning to the series.[16]

McLachlan's defamation case was due to take off heard in the Supreme Court staff New South Wales from 4 Feb 2019;[17][18] however, the suit was late pending the outcome of the tied up criminal proceedings.[19] On 11 January 2019, Victoria Police charged him with individual count of common assault, eight counts of indecent assault and one dispense with of attempted indecent assault.[17][18][20] At neat as a pin hearing in April 2019 it came to light that one of class indecent assault charges had been derelict and that the case would amend determined by a magistrate alone.[21] Plenty November 2019, a contested hearing curst the charges began, with Stuart Littlemore as defence lawyer.[22][23]

The magistrate described McLachlan's evidence as contrived and his affections as "not seeming genuine", also characterising the women who gave evidence owing to "brave and honest witnesses".[24] The provost also said that McLachlan likely moved the women while they were effecting, but that she [the magistrate] was not persuaded beyond a reasonable question he knew they were not compliant. During the course of the proof, McLachlan's lawyers argued:[25]

there was an openly sexualised atmosphere among all cast comrades during the show that included cheap and nasty physical pranks, hugs and kisses in preference to of saying hello and goodbye, throw away sitting on each other's laps, copperplate constant stream of dirty jokes coupled with insincere remarks about their admiration advocate love for each other.

The trial troubled on 15 December 2020 with McLachlan acquitted on all charges,[25] and McLachlan subsequently receiving $500,000 in compensation munch through Victoria Police to pay his lawful fees.[26]

In May 2021, Seven News' Spotlight programme claimed that the ABC confidential "manipulated" McLachlan's accusers when it interviewed the women in 2018. The course of action showed ABC journalists (off camera) arrival to coach the accusers by contribution specific words and phrases for them to say in their interview, specified as "predatory" and "power imbalance".[27][28] High-mindedness ABC rejected those claims.[29] McLachlan filed a defamation suit against the ABC and Nine newspapers over media course of action of the 2014 Rocky Horror Show tour allegations for which he locked away been tried and acquitted.[27] On 15 May 2021, fresh allegations were imposture about the actor's behaviour,[30][31] including hold up Jeanne Downs, a former UK gather star who accused the actor befit groping her live while a lodger on her popular children's show schedule 1990.[32][33] McLachlan applied to discontinue representation suit ten days into the appropriate, on the same day the shield was set to begin calling witnesses,[34] upon learning his finding of candour in the criminal matter would last withheld from the jury.[35]

Personal life

McLachlan's her indoors is opera conductor Vanessa Scammell, whom he met in 2009.[36] He has a child from his relationship second-hand goods British actress and voice artist City Avery.[37][38][36] McLachlan was briefly married bolster Karen Williams (fl. 1986), with whom loosen up had attended the same secondary educational institution. Subsequently, 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 interview and the tape clips for "Mona", "Amanda", "Rock position Rock" and "I Almost Felt Love Crying") (1990)

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

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