25 Facts About Lachy Hulme

Lachy Hulme was born on 1 April 1971 and is an Australian actor and screenwriter.

Lachy Hulme has written several films and has appeared in a number of Australian and US film and television productions.

Lachy Hulme completed his secondary-schooling at Melbourne's Wesley College, graduating with honours in drama, appearing in school theatrical productions such as South Pacific and Rover in 1988.

In 1997, Lachy Hulme wrote the screenplay for the Canadian action-thriller Men with Guns directed by Kari Skogland.

In 2000, Lachy Hulme appeared in the Australian thriller Four Jacks, directed by Matthew George.

Lachy Hulme received the prize for best actor at that year's Melbourne Underground Film Awards.

The film was a satirical comedy in which Lachy Hulme played the leader of a rag-tag gang of hired kidnappers who plan to break into Skase's Spanish mansion and smuggle him back to Australia to face his creditors.

In 2003, Lachy Hulme scored roles in the sequels to the smash-hit science-fiction film The Matrix.

Lachy Hulme played the role of Sparks, one of the free-born crew members of one of the hover-ships in the films The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, both films shot in Sydney.

Lachy Hulme reprised the role for the Enter the Matrix video games.

Lachy Hulme later said that the media speculation had annoyed him and that in reality, he had never been in the shortlist for the role; he had never even met the film's director, Christopher Nolan, despite media reports to the contrary.

In 2006, Lachy Hulme played the role of MacDuff, alongside Sam Worthington in Geoffrey Wright's adaptation of William Shakespeare play Macbeth, in which the play was set amongst Melbourne's criminal underworld.

That same year, Lachy Hulme played a brash, foul-mouthed record company executive in the Australian film comedy BoyTown directed by Kevin Carlin and reprised the role in the unreleased spin-off mockumentary BoyTown Confidential directed by Tony Martin.

In 2010, Lachy Hulme became a regular cast member on the drama series Offspring, playing the role of the brilliant but eccentric Dr Martin Clegg in seven seasons.

Lachy Hulme has continued to work in theatre, appearing in the Sydney Theatre Company's 2009 production of the comedy-drama play Elling, based on an original Norwegian film and novel and directed for the stage by Pamela Rabe, a performance for which Lachy Hulme received good reviews.

Lachy Hulme returned to the big screen in 2011, appearing as a rogue SAS soldier in the action-thriller The Killer Elite, directed by Gary McKendry.

In 2012, Lachy Hulme starred in the television film Beaconsfield, a dramatized depiction of the Beaconsfield Mine Collapse in Tasmania, 2006 where one miner was killed in a sudden cave-in and two others, Todd Russell and Brant Webb, were trapped for 14 days, prompting a large-scale rescue operation which drew in nationwide media coverage.

Lachy Hulme starred as Russell, deliberately gaining weight in order to play the burly miner, alongside Shane Jacobson who played Webb.

Lachy Hulme, having lost most of the weight he gained in 2011 for the filming of Beaconsfield, was again obliged to regain more girth to play the role of the heavy-set famous businessman.

The role earned Lachy Hulme considerable praise and the film was a ratings hit.

In 2012, Lachy Hulme appeared in the comedy film Scumbus, written and produced by, and starring, Ed Kavalee, the film airing in November.

Lachy Hulme has appeared in Kavalee's next feature, the comedy-satire Border Protection Squad, which has been completed but is awaiting a distributor.

Lachy Hulme played the role of another member of the Packer dynasty, Sir Frank.

In March 2014, Lachy Hulme was cast in the Nine Network's eight-part 2015 drama series, Gallipoli and in which he played Lord Kitchener.

In 2017, Lachy Hulme was cast as Blake Farron, leader of white nationalist group Patriot Blue in the television series Romper Stomper, a follow-up to the 1992 film.