16 Facts About Ned Manning

Ned Manning's plays include Us or Them, Milo, Kenny's Coming Home and Close to the Bone.

In 2007 Manning played the lead in his own play, Last One Standing, at the Old Fitzroy Theatre in Sydney.

Ned Manning was born in Coonabarabran, New South Wales in 1950, where he grew up on a property.

Ned Manning's father was a progressive Labour shire president, and his mother was a socialite and budding artist.

Ned Manning's mother died when he was twelve years old, and he wasn't particularly close with his father.

Ned Manning played lead character Joe in the Old Fitzroy production.

In 1989 Ned Manning directed the Belvoir St Theatre production of a play, Black Cockatoos, about the relationship between a white woman and an Aboriginal man.

Ned Manning has prepared scripts for ten works for The Bell Shakespeare Company's Actors at Work program, a travelling community and schools theatrical education initiative.

Ned Manning finds himself amongst a community of misfits trapped at the site, and seeks to break out.

The film received only a short box-office season; Ned Manning was critical of the distributor Greater Union and worked with the film's other actors to secure separate release in independent cinemas.

Ned Manning had a recurring role as Nick Clarke in Prisoner in 1981.

Ned Manning has made guest appearances in numerous other television series including The Restless Years, Young Ramsay, Cop Shop, Bellamy, A Country Practice, Rafferty's Rules, Home and Away, Heartbreak High, Big Sky, Changi, White Collar Blue, All Saints, Offspring, Neighbours and Mr Inbetween.

Ned Manning taught at Newtown High School of the Performing Arts where he was a Senior Examiner in HSC Drama, and developed a playwrighting program.

Ned Manning has helped local and refugee students write and perform their own plays in Bendigo and at the MTC.

Ned Manning married Bronwyn Bancroft, an Indigenous Australian artist, with whom he had two children, including New South Wales Young Australian of the Year for 2010, Jack Ned Manning Bancroft.

Ned Manning remarried to theatre director Marion Potts, with whom he had two children.