Adam Zwar was born on 13 January 1972 and is an Australian actor, voice artist, and writer.
17 Facts About Adam Zwar
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Adam Zwar is best known for co-creating the Australian comedy series Squinters, Lowdown, Wilfred and creating the critically acclaimed Channel 10 comedy Mr Black as well as the popular factual series Agony Aunts, Agony Uncles, The Agony of Life, The Agony of Modern Manners and Agony.
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Adam Zwar was born on 13 January 1972 in Cairns, Queensland where he was raised.
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Adam Zwar's parents bought the family home from actor Leo McKern.
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Adam Zwar is the son of author Desmond Adam Zwar, who wrote the best-selling book The Loneliest Man in the World about Rudolf Hess.
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Adam Zwar's mother Delphine was a longtime writer for the House and Garden magazine.
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Adam Zwar undertook a journalism cadetship at The Cairns Post, and subsequently moved to Melbourne to work for the Sunday Herald Sun.
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Adam Zwar performed in theatre, numerous television commercials, as well as guest roles in Neighbours, Blue Heelers and Sea Change.
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Each year Adam Zwar would save a portion of his income and use it to produce a short film.
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Adam Zwar co-wrote and co-starred in the movie Rats and Cats, which premiered to sell-out audiences and critical acclaim at the 2006 Melbourne International Film Festival and went on to screen at the SXSW Film Festival in 2009.
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Adam Zwar's other acting credits include playing Martin Gero in Series 1 of 2 of the Network Ten crime drama Rush, as well as the SBS series Carla Cametti PD, the ABC television movie Valentine's Day, the crime drama Underbelly for Channel Nine.
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In 2016, Adam Zwar joined the main cast of Foxtel's drama Top of the Lake.
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Adam Zwar's other screen-acting credits include both seasons of the Network Ten sketch comedy series The Wedge, Blue Heelers, Stingers, CrashBurn, SeaChange, BackBerner, Foxtel's drama Tangle and MDA.
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Adam Zwar's stage-acting credits include Kissing for Australia, for which he received a Green Room Award nomination, and Cyrano de Bergerac for the Melbourne Theatre Company.
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Adam Zwar has written the plays Kissing for Australia, Primrose Hill, The Inner Sanctum, and The Fall and Fall of Jeremy Hawthorn.
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Adam Zwar is one of Australia's leading voice-over artists lending his voice to Ford, Australia Post, ISelect, the Herald Sun, Honda, HBA, Boag's, RACV, Bundaberg Rum, AHM and Blackmores.
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Adam Zwar is married to Amanda Brotchie, the AFI award-winning filmmaker.