Daniel Henshall
Biography
Daniel Henshall is an Australian actor who was born and raised in Sydney and trained at Actors Centre Australia, graduating in 2006. His first major role came in the BBC soap Out of the Blue in 2008, and he won the AACTA best actor award for his debut feature, Snowtown (2011), playing the serial killer John Bunting; Indiewire named that performance one of the best of 2012. He went on to appear in The Babadook (2014), Ghost in the Shell (2017), Okja (2017), Skin (2019), Catch the Fair One (2022), The Royal Hotel (2023) and Mickey 17 (2025). On television he played Caleb Brewster across four seasons of Turn: Washington's Spies, from 2014 to 2017, and appeared in Defending Jacob and Clickbait. He was nominated for a 2025 AACTA Award for How to Make Gravy (2024) and has worked in theater, originating a role in The Secret River.
44years old
Turns 45 on August 9in 300 days
- Born Sydney
- Star sign: LeoThe sign runs July 23 to August 22
- Also credited as Daniel Edwin Henshall
Movie Career
- Films
- 13
- Career span
- 14 years2011 to 2025
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Big break
For his first feature film role, Henshall played John Bunting, a real life serial killer, in Justin Kurzel's Snowtown. He received the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role for that performance.
First role
Henshall was the first to play Dan Oldfield in the sell-out early seasons of The Secret River, a 2013 work by Andrew Bovell that Cate Blanchett and Andrew Upton commissioned for The Sydney Theatre Company.
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