Jeremy Cumpston was born around 1967 in Darwin, Australia, to Noelene and Trevor Cumpston.
16 Facts About Jeremy Cumpston
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Trevor was a radiographer based in Darwin working on a program to provide X-ray screenings for tuberculosis in remote Aboriginal communities when Jeremy was born, three and a half years after his sister art photographer and curator Nici Cumpston.
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When Jeremy Cumpston was eight they briefly returned to Australia but then went back to Canada, and this time his father worked at the hospital base for the world's second largest nickel mine, in Thompson, Manitoba, located north of the 63rd parallel.
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Jeremy Cumpston couldn't defer his intern year so he had to pass up the place.
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Jeremy Cumpston worked as general practitioner for some time before heading off to Perth for three years' full-time acting study at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.
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Whilst in his final year at WAAPA in 1995, Jeremy Cumpston worked as a GP full-time for six weeks during his holidays to save money, which enabled him to produce and then perform in the one-man play Shadow Boxing.
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Jeremy Cumpston performed in Adelaide and had a return season in Perth.
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Jeremy Cumpston founded the Old Fitzroy Theatre in 1997 with the other members of the Tamarama Rock Surfers.
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In 1997, Jeremy Cumpston took a role at an Aboriginal medical centre in Sydney's western suburbs while continuing to audition and work on guest roles in Murder Call and Roar.
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Jeremy Cumpston then directed Three Strikes at the Old Fitzroy Hotel, which had a sellout season.
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From 1998 to 2001 Jeremy Cumpston played the "lovable rogue" nurse Connor Costello in the Australian medical drama All Saints.
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In 1998, Jeremy Cumpston directed Pitchfork and co-produced Diary of a Madman.
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Jeremy Cumpston directed short films Free in 2003, The Sky is Always Beautiful in 2007 and The Last Race in 2011.
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Jeremy Cumpston directed the movie Bilched, written by his son Hal Jeremy Cumpston.
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In 2024, Jeremy Cumpston appeared in season 3 of Total Control.
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In 2005, Jeremy Cumpston married Jessica Brentnall and had two sons and a daughter together before separating in 2010.