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Leon Ford Biography

Birth Name:Leon Ford

Profession Actor, Writer, Director, Producer, Soundtrack, Script department

Fast Facts

Was named Best Rising Talent at the 2008 IF Awards
Won an AACTA Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2012 from the Australian Film Institute for "Griff the Invisible․"
Shared a Short Film Competition Prize for Best Comedy with Nicole O'Donohue at the 2006 St․ Kilda Film Festival for "The Mechanicals․"
Studied at Narrabundah College and Telopea Park School in Canberra
Started out playing minor theatrical and television roles in the late 1990s and early 2000s
A postmodern Golden Book featuring Grover of "Sesame Street" talking to the reader was what inspired him to go into theater and film
Quote: "We get used to conforming and appearing we're all normal, but I don't think anyone is․ I think everyone is an eccentric, and I hop a film life Griff" celebrates that, rather than makes people feel ashamed of it․""
In 2003, he played the title role in the Bell Shakespeare Company's production of "Hamlet․"
Best known for his roles in "The Cooks," "Changi" and "Stepfather of the Bride․"
Wrote the short story "What Doesn't Kill You" in 2009