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Huw Higginson

Sydney

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Trained at The London Academy of Dramatic Art, Huw has worked consistently in television, film and theatre both in the UK and Australia, and is probably best known for playing PC George Garfield in ABC/ITV's The Bill in which he appeared in over 600 episodes spanning ten years. Amongst his other UK television credits are EastEnders, Casualty, Holby City, Doctors, Railway Murders, Big Deal, The Sarah Jane Adventures, By Any Means Living It, Blessed - all for BBCTV. Lewis, Heartbeat, The Hunt, The Giblets and Peep Show are among the numerous credits he has for commercial television in the UK. Huw is well known for touring nationally in the UK with, amongst others, Abigail’s Party, Meeting Joe Strummer, In the Club, Rattle of a Simple Man, Arsenic and Old Lace, What the Butler Saw (West End) and for the Bolton Octogon, All My Sons, Comedians, And Did Those Feet, Demolition Man, The Winslow Boy and A Streetcar Named Desire (nominated for an MEN award for Best Supporting Actor). Selected further theatre credits include : A Kitchen Sink, Hull Truck Theatre. Plenty, Sergeant Musgraves Dance and Breezeblock Park for Manchester Library Theatre. In Australia Huw’s credits include Lone Star (2000 National Tour), and MTC’s epic four-hour production of Great Expectations. Since his return to Australia he has appeared in On the Shore of the Wide World, and subsequently House On the Lake (for which he won Best Actor in the GLUG Awards) both at the Griffin Theatre, and he also toured nationally in Love Letters with his partner Hannah Waterman. In 2016 he appeared in the title role of David Walliams play Mr Stink at the Sydney Opera House and returned to the Griffin Theatre in 2016 to appear in the world premiere of Benefit Andrews Gloria, opposite Marta Dusseldorp. Recent television has included ABCTVs Hiding, Rake Series 4 and Miss Fisher Mysteries as well as Deadline, Gallipoli, Secret City, Secret River, Mary: Making of a Princess, Home and Away, Janet King 3, A Place to Call Home, The Leftovers, Jessica and Picnic at Hanging Rock as well as the final 2 seasons of Wentworth., and is currently appearing ias MR RYDER in LADIES IN BLACK ( ABC TV ). In 2017 Huw was thrilled to be reunited on stage with Hannah Waterman in the Australian premiere of A Kitchen Sink at the Ensemble Theatre, where he also stared in the play Honour in 2021 and is thrilled to be returning in COLDER THAN HERE in 2024, again with Hannah. In 2018 Huw appeared in the feature film The Nightingale, and in 2019 was seen as Trevor Ford in the much anticipated Australian feature film, Top End Wedding, which had its World Premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, and has just finished filming the TV spin-off series of the hit film, now called TOP END BUB. Huw most recently appeared as Fergus in Gold Diggers alongside Claire Lovering and Danielle Walker, and as Peter Solomon in Total Control seasons 1 , 2 and 3 ( To be released) alongside Rachel Griffiths and Deborah Mailman and The Artful Dodger as Crooky alongside a stellar cast including Tim Minchin, Damon Herriman and Miranda Tapsell. Outside of work he is a keen fisherman, bad golfer, and follower of Chelsea Football Club, Wests Tigers and the Sydney Swans.
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