Tony Briggs was born on 3 July 1967 and is an Aboriginal Australian actor.
16 Facts About Tony Briggs
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Tony Briggs is best known for creating the stage play The Sapphires, which tells the true story of an Aboriginal singing girl group who toured Vietnam during the war.
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Tony Briggs attended Scotch College, Melbourne as a boarding student from 1980 to 1985, and proved to be an outstanding athlete there.
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Tony Briggs was in the athletics team each year, and in 1985 was made Captain of Athletics.
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Between 1987 and 1988, Tony Briggs had the recurring role of banker Pete Baxter on television soap opera Neighbours.
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From 2009, Tony Briggs appeared in the television series The Circuit as Mick Mathers.
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In 2011, Tony Briggs played Bilal in The Slap, based on the book by Christos Tsiolkas.
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In 2024, Tony Briggs was announced as part of the cast for Population 11.
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Tony Briggs wrote the Helpmann Award-winning play The Sapphires, first performed in 2004.
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Tony Briggs adapted the play for the 2012 film The Sapphires.
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Tony Briggs is the founder and artistic director of the Birrarangga Film Festival, launched in 2019 in Melbourne.
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Apart from these, Tony Briggs was the recipient of personal awards and recognition:.
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Tony Briggs was a successful 400m hurdler, and was runner-up at the Australian Athletics Championships from 1990 to 1992.
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Tony Briggs finished third at the 1990 Championships in the 110m hurdles.
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Tony Briggs was an Australian Institute of Sport athletics scholarship holder from 1986 to 1987.
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In 2016, Tony Briggs became patron of his alma mater Scotch College's foundation to perpetually endow the Scotch College Indigenous Scholarship programme.