Mark Lee is an Australian theatre and film actor and director, and singer. He played the lead role in the 1981 filmGallipoli, alongside Mel Gibson. Since then, Mark has worked extensively in Australian film, television and theatre.
Career
He originally worked as a model and coffee house singer. His film debut was in 1969 in the film Strange Holiday. After his success in Gallipoli he spent some time as a musician, playing and singing as front man in popular Sydney bands like One Way Ticket and The Idle Poor, performed in company with his Conservatorium-trained, violin-playing younger brother, David. Mark also spent some years acting in, and frequently simultaneously directing, amateur plays. He starred in the 1987 Australian television dramaVietnam and the 1988 gay cult filmThe Everlasting Secret Family. He also starred as a gay man in Sex Is a Four Letter Word. Lee also worked with James Belushi in the remake of Sahara in 1995. In 2000 he starred in Nowhere to Land as the antagonist Phillip Decon. Apart from Gallipoli, most of his work has drawn little notice outside of Australia, save for a short filmStranger So Familiar, shown in the 2005 Reno Film Festival. In 2001 he starred in the one man showThe Time Machine, adapted by Frank Gauntlett from the novelette by H. G. Wells, and directed by Penny Young. He also appeared in the acclaimed and controversial production of The Miracle Rose at Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney, directed by film and theatre Robert Chuter. His feature film directorial debut was an Australian film titled The Bet, released in 2007. He also made a documentary Mountains to the Sea, about a couple of pub bands, and directed the play Unit 46 in 1999. In 2012 he reprised his role in The Time Machine at The Old 505 Theatre, Sydney. In 2013/2014 he toured Australia in the theatrical production of a play based upon Agatha Christie's A Murder Is Announced, playing the character of Inspector Craddock. In 2013 he featured in the TV mini-series . Since 2015, he has had a recurring role in the TV series A Place To Call Home. As of 2019, he is currently acting as Rick Booth on Seven’s Home and Away. When not working in Australian television or features, Mark continues to pursue his first love, music. He is married and has two daughters.
