Geoff Morrell

Geoff Morrell is an Australian actor who was born in Sydney and started out in theater as a founding member of Theatre South. While studying at the University of Wollongong, he made his stage debut in The Importance of Being Earnest, as Algernon, and he graduated in 1979. He moved into film in 1985 with a minor role in a telemovie of Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan, then worked in theater and film, including Macbeth, King Lear, Blackrock and Oscar and Lucinda. He played forensic scientist Lance Fisk in Murder Call from 1997 to 1999 and won the protagonist role in the ABC series Grass Roots in 2000, earning the 2000 AFI Award for Best Actor. He was nominated four times for AFI Awards and three times for Silver Logies. In 2004 he joined Blue Heelers as Sergeant Mark Jacobs, and he later appeared in Rake, Rogue (2007) and Cloudstreet.