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Hugh Baldwin

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Hugh Baldwin
OccupationActor
Notable workHeartbreak High

Hugh Baldwin is an Australian actor. For his performance in Heartbreak High he was nominated for the 1994 AFI Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama.[1]

Baldwin trained with NIDA, appearing in the 1992 graduating class production titled Images of Moliere.[2] Later stage productions he featured in were Then the Mountain Comes (Australian Museum, 1994)[3][4][5] and The Malevolence.[6]

On TV Baldwin featured on Heartbreak High on Network Ten in 1994. He played a gay music teacher who in one episode is falsely accused of sexual abuse.[7] For that episode he was nominated for an AFI Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama. He later starred in Children's Hospital on the ABC.[8]

References

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  1. ^ "AFI | AACTA | Winners & Nominees | 1990-1999 | 1994". www.aacta.org. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
  2. ^ Evans, Bob (3 October 1992), "Students show style, but not much passion", The Sydney Morning Herald
  3. ^ Evans, Bob (10 November 1994), "Volcanic dust and soap", The Sydney Morning Herald
  4. ^ Payne, Pamela (20 November 1994), "Theatre in the museum", The Sydney Morning Herald
  5. ^ Then the Mountain Comes, AusStage
  6. ^ The Malevolence, AusStage
  7. ^ Hawker, Phillipa (1 June 1994), "It's testing times at 'Heartbreak High'", The Age
  8. ^ Date, Margot (7 December 1997), "medical magic", The Sydney Morning Herald
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