Nathan Phillips

Nathan Phillips is an Australian actor who studied English literature in Melbourne at La Trobe University and planned to become a teacher before switching to acting. His professional career began in 1999 with a role on the long-running soap opera Neighbours, and he followed that with work in Australian television. Warriors of Virtue: The Return to Tao was his feature debut in 2002. He then took the lead in Australian Rules, which earned him a Best Actor nomination from the Film Critics Circle of Australia. Wolf Creek (2005) brought him his best known part, the backpacker Ben Mitchell. He also appeared in Take Away (2003). In Hollywood he took a role in Snakes on a Plane (2006). He later appeared in Chernobyl Diaries (2012). He produced Blood Vessel (2019) and appeared in Halifax: Retribution, a Nine Network series, in 2020.