Tom Long

Tom Long was an Australian actor who worked in television and film after training at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1994. Born in Boston while his Australian parents were visiting, he was raised on a farm near Benalla in Victoria, and worked as a jackaroo and shearer before traveling abroad. He appeared most notably on television as Angus, a court official and surfer, in the ABC series SeaChange from 1998 to 2000, and later in the Nine Network police drama Young Lions. His films included Two Hands (1999), The Dish (2000) and The Book of Revelation (2006). He played Brenden Abbott in the 2003 telemovie The Postcard Bandit, and other credits ranged from The Last of the Ryans and Doing Time for Patsy Cline to Heroes' Mountain: The Thredbo Story and Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback. He died in 2020.