Brendan Cowell (Actor)

Game of Thrones

Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.

Release Date2011-04-17

Charactersd Harrag

Episode Count3

Vote Count25186

Rush

They are trained to be smarter, tactically superior and technologically advantaged - Melbourne's answer for a cutting edge trend in policing worldwide. Rush was an Australian television police drama that first screened on Network Ten in September 2008. Set in Melbourne, Victoria, it focuses on the members of a Police Tactical Response team. It is produced by John Edwards and Southern Star. On 10 November 2011, as with Network Ten setting out DVD promotions for the finale of season 4, David Knox of TV Tonight has announced that Rush would not return after 4 years, as the next episode would be its last.

Release Date2008-09-02

Charactersd Blake Fincher

Episode Count1

Vote Count13

Dune: Prophecy

Ten thousand years before the ascension of Paul Atreides, sisters Valya and Tula Harkonnen establish the fabled sect and female order that would become known as the Bene Gesserit to control the future of humankind.

Release Date2024-11-17

Charactersd Duke Ferdinand Richese

Episode Count2

Vote Count419

Avatar: The Way of Water

Set more than a decade after the events of the first film, learn the story of the Sully family (Jake, Neytiri, and their kids), the trouble that follows them, the lengths they go to keep each other safe, the battles they fight to stay alive, and the tragedies they endure.

Release Date2022-12-14

Charactersd Mick Scoresby

Vote Count12642

Life Support

A satirical, sometimes dark look at Australian life as seen through the omnipresent lens of the Television Lifestyle Show.

Release Date2001-08-27

Charactersd Todd

Episode Count20

Vote Count3

Young Lions

Young Lions was an Australian TV police drama broadcast on the Nine Network in 2002 and in Ireland on RTÉ Two.The series was based around the professional and private lives of four rookie detectives, the Young Lions, of South West 101, an inner city Sydney police station. The program rated poorly and was not renewed after its first season. Competition from other new drama series and several timeslot changes also contributed to the show's demise.

Release Date2002-07-17

Charactersd Jason Doone

Episode Count1

The End

Three generations of a family with separate but intersecting obsessions - trying to figure out how to die with dignity, live with none and make it count.

Release Date2020-02-10

Charactersd Christopher Brennan

Episode Count4

Vote Count17

Salem's Lot

A dark terror has come to the picture-perfect town of Jerusalem's Lot, and it's up to a writer with a haunted past to uncover the horror that has taken over the town.

Release Date2004-06-20

Charactersd Dud Rogers

Episode Count2

Vote Count186

Brock

Brock is a dramatisation that follows the life of Australian motor racing legend, Peter Brock. From his early racing days to his tragic death in Perth, TEN's new drama traces the soaring highs and brutal lows of one of the country’s most beloved sportsmen.

Release Date2016-10-09

Charactersd Allan Moffat

Episode Count2

Vote Count2

White Collar Blue

White Collar Blue is an Australian television series made by Knapman Wyld Television for Network Ten from 2002 to 2003. Starring Peter O'Brien as Joe Hill and Freya Stafford as Harriet Walker, the series dealt with a division of the police force working in the city of Sydney and the personal and professional tensions affecting their work and lives. In the pilot episode, Harriet is introduced as the new face to Kingsway station, transferring from the "White Collar" federal police to the "Blue Collar" New South Wales Police. Throughout the series Harriet must deal not only with her husband's brutal murder and the revelation of his adultery, but with learning to adjust and fit into her new surroundings. Joe is Harriet's new partner, and isn't exactly welcoming to her as an addition to the team. With two daughters from previous marriages, Joe needs to juggle his homelife, his dedication to the job and his relationship with Nicole Brown, played by Jodie Dry. The other cops at the station are Ted Hudson, played by Richard Carter, Sophia Marinkovitch and Theo Rahme, and each have their own secrets and problems to deal with. The series was axed after two seasons, however it can be found on cable TV both in Australia and overseas.

Release Date2002-08-12

Charactersd Daniel Hudson

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

The Castaways

Lori and Erin are on the holiday of a lifetime to Fiji. But after a huge fight, Erin never boards their final flight and the plane never arrives at its destination. Months later, no plane has been found, no survivors discovered. Until now.

Release Date2023-12-26

Charactersd Mike Brass

Episode Count5

Vote Count11

Howzat! Kerry Packer's War

Australian media mogul Kerry Packer fought a cricket war by secretly signing up 50 of the world's greatest players to form a breakaway tournament.

Release Date2012-08-19

Charactersd Rodney Marsh

Episode Count2

Vote Count5

The Twelve

The story of 12 ordinary Australians who are selected for jury duty in a murder trial as traumatising as it is controversial, in which a woman stands accused of killing her teenage niece.

Release Date2022-06-21

Charactersd Garry Thorne

Episode Count10

Vote Count12

Plum

Peter Lum, a football star, lives an ideal life in Cronulla until a diagnosis links his concussions to a brain disorder. Unable to accept it, he tries escaping through pub nights but his ex-wife and son know the game caused his downfall.

Release Date2024-10-20

DepartmentWriting

JobAuthor

Charactersd Peter Lum

Episode Count6

Vote Count2

Avatar: Fire and Ash

In the wake of the devastating war against the RDA and the loss of their eldest son, Jake Sully and Neytiri face a new threat on Pandora: the Ash People, a violent and power-hungry Na'vi tribe led by the ruthless Varang. Jake's family must fight for their survival and the future of Pandora in a conflict that pushes them to their emotional and physical limits.

Release Date2025-12-17

Charactersd Mick Scoresby

Love My Way

Love My Way is a Logie Award winning and critically acclaimed Australian television drama series. It won the AFI award for Best Television Drama Series for each of its three seasons. Love My Way was about a group of thirty-somethings dealing with the ups and downs of life. The series revolves around an extended family unit - Frankie Paige and Charlie Jackson are the separated parents of Lou, and Frankie also lives with Charlie's brother, Tom. As the series began, Charlie's new wife Julia is about to have their first child. Frankie's mother, Di and Charlie's mother Brenda and father Gerry also have a strong presence in the ongoing story, as does Julia's ex-lover Howard, who enters into a relationship with Frankie. Produced by John Edwards and Claudia Karvan, Love My Way starred Karvan, Sam Worthington, Dan Wyllie, Asher Keddie, Brendan Cowell, and Alex Cook. As the program was made for subscription television in Australia, it contained stronger material than most Australian programs: regular swearing, drug use and sexual references. When the series was launched, much was made of the connection between Love My Way and The Secret Life of Us: both sharing a star, as well as significant creative talent. However, the series is not a continuation of Secret Life, although it does share some thematic concerns.

Release Date2004-11-22

Charactersd Tom Jackson

Episode Count30

Vote Count8

Wastelander Panda: Exile

Banished to the Wasteland, Isaac sets out to find a young girl and reinstate his family into the Tribe of Legion.

Release Date2014-09-20

Charactersd Isaac (voice)

Episode Count6

The Slap

When a man slaps a 4-year-old boy, the incident results in an intense court case.

Release Date2011-10-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Craig

Episode Count2

Vote Count35

Fat Cow Motel

Cassie owns a hotel in Fat Cow and needs to generate more business. In order to do that she makes up the story that a famous 80's icon died in room 13. The tourists start flocking to the town, as does a journalist, Jack, who discovers the truth behind the story. But with the truth now out, is there any hope that Fat Cow can remain on the Aussie map?

Release Date2003-07-10

Charactersd Jack Green

Episode Count13

Police Rescue Australia

Follow police rescue and bomb disposal teams in high risk situations. From mountain rescues, missing persons cases, sieges and counter terrorism, we see police save others.

Release Date2023-05-29

Charactersd Narrator

Episode Count6

Press

The lives of the editors and journalists working at a left-leaning broadsheet and a populist tabloid.

Release Date2018-09-06

Charactersd Peter Langly

Episode Count6

Vote Count25

Broke

A disgraced sports star and gambling addict attempts to turn his life around with the support of his number one fan.

Release Date2016-04-03

Charactersd Dirk

Vote Count6

Observance

In the grip of grief following the death of his young son, his marriage on the rocks and nearing bankruptcy, Parker reluctantly returns to work as a private investigator. Embarking on an unusual assignment to observe a woman from an abandoned apartment, Parker witnesses bizarre happenings surrounding her, unaware that the derelict building that he surveys her from has birthed a dark presence which slowly threatens to consume him.

Release Date2016-04-03

Charactersd Employer

Vote Count34

Beneath Hill 60

The true story of Australia's cat-and-mouse underground mine warfare—one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of WW I. It was secret struggle BENEATH the Western Front that combined daring engineering, technology and science. Few on the surface knew of the brave, claustrophobic and sometimes barbaric work of these tunnellers.

Release Date2010-04-15

Charactersd Captain Oliver Woodward

Vote Count157

Last Cab to Darwin

Rex is a loner, and when he's told he doesn't have long to live, he embarks on an epic drive through the Australian outback from Broken Hill to Darwin to die on his own terms; but his journey reveals to him that before you can end your life, you have to live it, and to live it, you've got to share it.

Release Date2015-08-06

Charactersd Publican

Vote Count73

To End All Wars

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are held captive by the Japanese. Capt. Ernest Gordon, Lt. Jim Reardon and Maj. Ian Campbell are among the military officers kept imprisoned and routinely beaten and deprived of food. While Campbell wants to rebel and attempt an escape, Gordon tries to take a more stoic approach, an attitude that proves to be surprisingly resonant.

Release Date2001-09-02

Charactersd Pte. Wallace Hamilton

Vote Count168

I Love You Too

Written by comedian Peter Helliar, I LOVE YOU TOO stars Brendan Cowell as Jim, a 30-something emotionally stunted man whose inability to declare his love to his girlfriend, Alice, threatens to cost him the best thing he ever had but leads him to befriend a talented dwarf who helps him find the words to get her back.

Release Date2010-05-06

Charactersd Jim

Vote Count34

The Monkey's Mask

A lesbian private detective dives head first into murder, manipulation and the consuming power of sex.

Release Date2001-05-10

Charactersd Hayden

Vote Count39

Noise

The community reels after an incident on a suburban train. A young cop, beset with doubt and afflicted with tinnitus, is pitched into the chaos that follows this tragic event. He struggles to clear the noises in his head while all around him deal with the after burn of the crime.

Release Date2007-05-03

Charactersd Const. Graham McGahan

Vote Count39

National Theatre Live: Yerma

A woman is driven to the unthinkable by her desperate desire to have a child in Simon Stone’s radical production of Lorca’s achingly powerful masterpiece.

Release Date2017-08-31

Charactersd John

Vote Count3

Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away

The story of David McMillan an Australian drug smuggler and the only person in history to escape from Klong Prem prison in Bangkok.

Release Date2011-02-21

Charactersd Benny O'Connell

Vote Count2

Monster!

Tragedy strikes a small town's monster movie festival when the monster featured in the films comes to life.

Release Date1999-09-12

Charactersd Nate

Vote Count10

Save Your Legs!

When cricket obsessed Teddy Brown realizes his mates are growing up and moving on, he leads them and his D-Grade team on an audacious tour of India, where stumps fly, friendships fray and Ted learns that it's time to start playing shots for himself.

Release Date2013-02-27

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Rick

Vote Count9

City Loop

City Loop tells the story of six young people who work in a pizzeria, as they struggle to comes to terms with boredom, fear of responsibility and pizzas to go

Release Date2000-06-17

Charactersd Robert

Vote Count4

Three Blind Mice

Three young Navy officers hit Sydney for one last night on land before being shipped over to the Gulf to fight. Sam has been mistreated at sea and is going AWOL, Dean has a fiancé and the future in-laws to meet, and Harry just loves playing cards. Throughout the night the boys lose each other, find themselves, and along the way discover courage, friendship and redemption.

Release Date2008-06-08

Charactersd Glenn Carter

Vote Count10

I Missed My Mother's Funeral

Brian Cox and Brendan Cowell star as father and son sharing a final tender moment. A gentle and understated film.

Release Date2012-01-01

Charactersd Young Man

Ten Empty

A disillusioned son's trip home is complicated when ten years of family secrets explode over one weekend.

Release Date2008-07-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Shane Hackett

Vote Count2

Black Chook

They were Australia’s bad days. Men killed other men and laughed. All that was left for the children of the dead was to remember. If they had the strength.

Release Date2015-08-01

Charactersd Jim Bloke

Bee Sting

Bee Sting takes in love and complications as a father and son fall for the same woman on the schoolyard.

Release Date2010-01-01

Charactersd Tom Stanners

Floodhouse

Two girls are sent to live in the Australian bush with their hippy father. As they gradually bond, a stranger arrives from a town called Paradise.

Release Date2003-10-17

Charactersd Herringbone John

Vote Count2

The Siege of Barton's Bathroom

A young girl locks herself in her family bathroom in order to protest her father and neighbor's plan to cut down a beloved tree in the family's backyard. Later adapted into the pilot for a TV series called "The Bartons," with a different cast.

Release Date1986-01-01

Charactersd Dominic Barton

Revealed: Otto By Otto

Inspired to make an original, intimate family portrait, Gracie Otto directs a feature length documentary on her father, Barry Otto, whose career in Australian theatre, film and television has spanned more than 50 years. Baz as he is affectionately known is one of a kind - a truly creative, endearing and extremely eccentric personality who embraces the serious and the silly. This story is about Gracie's relationship with her father, in the twilight of his career and his life, as she tries to capture his memories, before his memory disappears. This is not a traditional biopic, but a deeply personal, artistic and cinematic reflection. Sometimes poignant in its exploration of deteriorating health, the film looks at the world through Baz's eyes, an ode to living a passionate life, that both honours him and preserves his memory.

Release Date2024-06-16

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

Ruben Guthrie

The story of one man not only battling the bottle, but the city that won’t let him put it down.

Release Date2015-07-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count16

The Outlaw Michael Howe

1814. Van Diemen’s Land, the notorious British penal colony, has dissolved into chaos. Outlaws roaming the wilderness have pushed the colonial government to breaking point. Driven by a deep sense of loyalty and an unquenchable hatred towards those he once served, English convict Michael Howe and a young aboriginal girl turn a desperate band of convicts, deserters and bushmen into a fearsome guerrilla army and lead them in open rebellion against the brutal, corrupt establishment. As the British hunt the outlaws, Howe remains an elusive prize. In desperation, the Governor makes the capture of Howe’s pregnant girl his priority. 

An epic story of love and betrayal, The Outlaw Michael Howe chronicles the astonishing true story of the man who pushed Australia to the brink of civil war.

Release Date2013-12-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

The Test

A docuseries following the Australian Men’s Cricket Team, offering a behind-the-scenes look at how one of the world’s best cricket teams fell from grace and was forced to reclaim their title and integrity.

Release Date2020-03-12

Episode Count8

Vote Count22

The Dispatcher

Police detective Ian Hunt's life fell apart ten years ago when his young daughter Maggie disappeared without a trace. Now working as a police dispatcher, the only thing that has kept him going is his implacable refusal to accept that she might be gone forever. When he receives a distress call from a young girl he is certain is Maggie, he will stop at nothing to find her and reunite his broken family, whatever the cost.

National Theater Live: The Crucible

A witch hunt is beginning in Arthur Miller's captivating parable of power with Erin Doherty (The Crown) and Brendan Cowell (Yerma). Raised to be seen but not heard, a group of young women in Salem suddenly find their words have an almighty power. As a climate of fear, vendetta and accusation spreads through the community, no one is safe from trial. Lindsey Turner (Hamlet) directs this contemporary new staging, design by Tony award winner Es Devlin. Captured live from the Olivier stage of the national theater.

Release Date2023-01-26

Vote Count1