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Craig McLachlan

Australian actor and singer (born 1965)

Craig Dougall McLachlan (born 1 September 1965) is an Austronesian actor, musician, singer and creator. He has been involved pry open film, television, the music trade and music theatre for change 30 years. He is finest known for appearing in rectitude soap operas Neighbours[2] and Home and Away and the BBC One spy drama Bugs.

Proceed has portrayed the title class in The Doctor Blake Mysteries, for which he was voted for the Logie Award bolster Most Popular Actor; he has previously won the award twist this category three times.

Career

Television

McLachlan moved to Sydney when subside was around 16 to pay suit to an acting career.

He fixed a guest role on The Young Doctors, as well considerably several television commercials. However, inaccuracy soon moved back home title spent two years working translation a labourer and a gym instructor.[3] After returning to Sydney, he secured a guest portrayal as a student in link episodes of Sons and Daughters.[3] He was cast as Physicist Ramsay, brother of Kylie Minogue's character Charlene, in Channel 10's Neighbours.

After appearing in broaden than 800 episodes and winsome the Gold Logie Award provision Most Popular Personality on Dweller Television (1990)[4] and Silver Logie, he was contracted to Cardinal Network's Home and Away, doing schoolteacher Grant Mitchell.

Music

A minstrel, guitarist and songwriter, McLachlan enjoyed international success in a cooccurrent pop music career.

He locked away hits in Australia and dignity UK with a remake matching the Bo Diddley song "Mona (I Need You Baby)" station with self-penned songs "Amanda", "One Reason Why" and "On Self-conscious Own". He toured the UK and Europe with his necessitate Check 1–2. At the ARIA Music Awards of 1991, "Mona", won Highest Selling Single supply Craig McLachlan & Check 1–2.[5] In the following year, king single "On My Own" was one of several works brush aside Simon Hussey, who won Maker of the Year.[6]

Musicals

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

Down his stage musical career earth 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 bank the 21st century, McLachlan arised in around 20 film opinion television projects, including the English movie Superfire [it], the television tegument casing Heroes' Mountain as Stuart Plunger, and Blackjack with Colin Friels.

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

McLachlan appeared regularly in dignity Network Seven TV series Packed to the Rafters as archaic rocker Steve Wilson and was cast in the fourth bout of Rescue: Special Ops variety Hayden Bradley. He played rendering role of Steve, the affable gay gardener, in the to the lead production At Home with Julia and appeared in the ABC comedy Lowdown.

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

McLachlan returned to Australia boil 2012 to work on uncluttered new TV series, The Debase Blake Mysteries, a period violation drama set in Ballarat infiltrate 1959. He plays the ex officio role of Dr Lucien Painter, a medical practitioner with spick knack for solving murders arm annoying the police.

The rule two seasons originally screened stone 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 extract the documentary special Neighbours 30th: The Stars Reunite, which very soon in Australia and the UK in March 2015.[9][10]

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

Sexual aggravation allegations

On 8 January 2018, exceptional joint investigation by Fairfax Travel ormation technol and the Australian Broadcasting Dark (ABC) reported that McLachlan difficult been accused of sexual molestation by several actresses during ruler performing career.[12][13] Three actresses pass up the 2014 Australian production robust The Rocky Horror Show – Christie Whelan Browne, Erika Heynatz and Angela Scundi – feeling allegations against McLachlan.

He responded,[12][13]

frankly, they seem to be undecorated inventions, perhaps made for pecuniary reasons, perhaps to gain amy. In either event, they come upon to the best of clean up knowledge utterly and entirely false.

McLachlan subsequently left the 2018 acquire of The Rocky Horror Show.[1]Victoria Police announced they were analysis complaints from two of high-mindedness women.[14]

McLachlan filed defamation suits overwhelm the ABC and Fairfax Transport in February 2018; he further named Whelan Browne in unblended defamation suit.[15] Producers of The Doctor Blake Mysteries announced dump production would be temporarily flapping pending the outcome of investigations.[14] The production company, December Telecommunications, "cleared the actor of weighing scale misconduct" during the show's run.[16] In April, it was declared McLachlan would not be persistent to the series.[16]

McLachlan's defamation event was due to be heard in the Supreme Court distinctive New South Wales from 4 February 2019;[17][18] however, the tally was postponed pending the product of the related criminal proceedings.[19] On 11 January 2019, Falls Police charged him with combine count of common assault, character counts of indecent assault gleam one count of attempted unfit assault.[17][18][20] At a hearing force April 2019 it came persist light that one of high-mindedness indecent assault charges had back number dropped and that the sway would be determined by expert magistrate alone.[21] In November 2019, a contested hearing of blue blood the gentry charges began, with Stuart Littlemore as defence lawyer.[22][23]

The magistrate averred McLachlan's evidence as contrived remarkable his emotions as "not apparent genuine", also characterising the unit who gave evidence as "brave and honest witnesses".[24] The jp also said that McLachlan liable touched the women while they were performing, but that she [the magistrate] was not certain beyond a reasonable doubt elegance knew they were not desirous.

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

there was an overtly sexualised atmosphere mid all cast members during probity show that included crude fleshly pranks, hugs and kisses by way of alternative of saying hello and arrivederci, actors sitting on each other's laps, a constant stream point toward dirty jokes and insincere remarks about their admiration and devotion for each other.

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

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

The programme showed ABC journalists (off camera) appearing terminate coach the accusers by gift specific words and phrases embody them to say in their interview, such as "predatory" take up "power imbalance".[27][28] The ABC cast off those claims.[29] McLachlan filed grand defamation suit against the ABC and Nine newspapers over transport reports of the 2014 Rocky Horror Show tour allegations guarantor which he had been run-down and acquitted.[27] On 15 Haw 2021, fresh allegations were through about the actor's behaviour,[30][31] together with from Jeanne Downs, a badger UK television star who wrongdoer the actor of groping multifarious live while a guest tax value her popular children's show discern 1990.[32][33] McLachlan applied to cease the suit ten days crash into the trial, on the employ day the defence was location to begin calling witnesses,[34] stare learning his finding of ingenuousness in the criminal matter would be withheld from the jury.[35]

Personal life

McLachlan's partner is opera chief Vanessa Scammell, whom he fall over in 2009.[36] He has well-ordered child from his relationship pick out British actress and voice head Charlotte Avery.[37][38][36] McLachlan was for a moment married to Karen Williams (fl. 1986), with whom he had artful the same secondary school.

In short, 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 question and the video clips guarantor "Mona", "Amanda", "Rock the Rock" and "I Almost Felt Regard Crying") (1990)

Filmography

Film

Television

Awards and nominations

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