Craig Dougall McLachlan was born on 1 September 1965 and is an Australian actor, musician, singer and composer.
24 Facts About Craig McLachlan
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Craig McLachlan has been involved in film, television, the music industry and music theatre for over 30 years.
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Craig McLachlan is best known for appearing in the soap operas Neighbours and Home and Away and the BBC One spy drama Bugs.
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Craig McLachlan has portrayed the title character in The Doctor Blake Mysteries, for which he was nominated for the Logie Award for Most Popular Actor; he has previously won the award in this category three times.
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Craig McLachlan secured a guest role on The Young Doctors, as well as several television commercials.
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Craig McLachlan was cast as Henry Ramsay, brother of Kylie Minogue's character Charlene, in Channel 10's Neighbours.
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In 1993, Craig McLachlan starred as Danny Zuko in the West End revival of the musical Grease alongside Deborah Gibson and Sonia Evans.
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Craig McLachlan played Jeff Kennard in the Australian film Hating Alison Ashley, worked alongside Benjamin Bratt and James Franco in The Great Raid, and starred with John Jarratt in Savages Crossing.
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Craig McLachlan appeared regularly in the Network Seven TV series Packed to the Rafters as ageing rocker Steve Wilson and was cast in the fourth season of Rescue: Special Ops as Hayden Bradley.
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Craig McLachlan played the role of Steve, the handsome gay gardener, in the award-winning production At Home with Julia and appeared in the ABC comedy Lowdown.
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Craig McLachlan returned to Australia in 2012 to work on a new TV series, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, a period crime drama set in Ballarat in 1959.
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Craig McLachlan plays the titular role of Dr Lucien Blake, a medical practitioner with a knack for solving murders and annoying the police.
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In 2013, Craig McLachlan was again cast as Frank-N-Furter in a revival of The Rocky Horror Show touring Australia in 2014.
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In December 2014, Craig McLachlan revealed that he was unable to return to Neighbours for the show's 30th anniversary celebrations owing to scheduling conflicts and his involvement in The Doctor Blake Mysteries.
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However, Craig McLachlan agreed to take part in the documentary special Neighbours 30th: The Stars Reunite, which aired in Australia and the UK in March 2015.
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In 2016, Craig McLachlan appeared in the sci-fi thriller Restoration, playing Andrew Majury.
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Craig McLachlan subsequently left the 2018 production of The Rocky Horror Show.
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Craig McLachlan filed defamation suits against the ABC and Fairfax Media in February 2018; he named Whelan Browne in a defamation suit.
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The magistrate said that Craig McLachlan likely touched the women while they were performing, but that she [the magistrate] was not persuaded beyond a reasonable doubt he knew they were not consenting.
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The hearing ended on 15 December 2020 with Craig McLachlan acquitted on all charges, and Craig McLachlan subsequently received $500,000 in costs from Victoria Police to pay his legal fees.
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Craig McLachlan filed a defamation suit against the ABC and Nine newspapers over media reports of the 2014 Rocky Horror Show tour allegations for which he had been tried and acquitted.
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Craig McLachlan applied to discontinue the suit ten days into the trial, on the same day the defence was set to begin calling witnesses, upon learning his acquittal in the criminal matter would be withheld from the jury.
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Craig McLachlan's partner is opera conductor Vanessa Scammell, who he met in 2009.
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Craig McLachlan has a child from his relationship with British actress and voice artist Charlotte Avery.