Brendan Cowell (Actor)

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 Date: 2025-12-17

Character: Mick Scoresby

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 Date: 2024-11-17

Character: Duke Ferdinand Richese

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 406

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 Date: 2024-10-20

Department: Writing

Job: Author

Character: Peter Lum

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 2

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 Date: 2024-06-16

Character: Self

Vote Count: 1

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 Date: 2023-12-26

Character: Mike Brass

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 11

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 Date: 2023-05-29

Character: Narrator

Episode Count: 6

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 Date: 2023-01-26

Vote Count: 1

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 Date: 2022-12-14

Character: Mick Scoresby

Vote Count: 12598

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 Date: 2022-06-21

Character: Garry Thorne

Episode Count: 10

Vote Count: 12

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 Date: 2020-03-12

Episode Count: 8

Vote Count: 21

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 Date: 2020-02-10

Character: Christopher Brennan

Episode Count: 4

Vote Count: 17

Press

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

Release Date: 2018-09-06

Character: Peter Langly

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 25

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 Date: 2017-08-31

Character: John

Vote Count: 3

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 Date: 2016-10-09

Character: Allan Moffat

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 2

Broke

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

Release Date: 2016-04-03

Character: Dirk

Vote Count: 6

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 Date: 2016-04-03

Character: Employer

Vote Count: 34

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 Date: 2015-08-06

Character: Publican

Vote Count: 73

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 Date: 2015-08-01

Character: Jim Bloke

Ruben Guthrie

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

Release Date: 2015-07-16

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 16

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 Date: 2014-09-20

Character: Isaac (voice)

Episode Count: 6

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 Date: 2013-12-01

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Vote Count: 6

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 Date: 2013-02-27

Department: Writing

Job: Story

Character: Rick

Vote Count: 9

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 Date: 2012-08-19

Character: Rodney Marsh

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 5

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 Date: 2012-01-01

Character: Young Man

The Slap

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

Release Date: 2011-10-06

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Craig

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 35

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 Date: 2011-04-17

Character: Harrag

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 25079

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 Date: 2011-02-21

Character: Benny O'Connell

Vote Count: 2

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 Date: 2010-05-06

Character: Jim

Vote Count: 34

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 Date: 2010-04-15

Character: Captain Oliver Woodward

Vote Count: 157

Bee Sting

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

Release Date: 2010-01-01

Character: Tom Stanners

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 Date: 2008-09-02

Character: Blake Fincher

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 13

Ten Empty

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

Release Date: 2008-07-03

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Character: Shane Hackett

Vote Count: 2

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 Date: 2008-06-08

Character: Glenn Carter

Vote Count: 10

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 Date: 2007-05-03

Character: Const. Graham McGahan

Vote Count: 39

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 Date: 2004-11-22

Character: Tom Jackson

Episode Count: 30

Vote Count: 8

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 Date: 2004-06-20

Character: Dud Rogers

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 185

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 Date: 2003-10-17

Character: Herringbone John

Vote Count: 2

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 Date: 2003-07-10

Character: Jack Green

Episode Count: 13

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 Date: 2002-08-12

Character: Daniel Hudson

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 3

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 Date: 2002-07-17

Character: Jason Doone

Episode Count: 1

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 Date: 2001-09-02

Character: Pte. Wallace Hamilton

Vote Count: 168

Life Support

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

Release Date: 2001-08-27

Character: Todd

Episode Count: 20

Vote Count: 3

The Monkey's Mask

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

Release Date: 2001-05-10

Character: Hayden

Vote Count: 39

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 Date: 2000-06-17

Character: Robert

Vote Count: 4

Monster!

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

Release Date: 1999-09-12

Character: Nate

Vote Count: 10

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 Date: 1986-01-01

Character: Dominic Barton

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.