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Bryan Brown was born in Sydney, Australia. He is an Australian actor. He started to act in amateur theatre performances, where he discovered a passion for acting.  He appeared in Colleen Clifford's production of A Man for All Seasons, before joining the Queensland Theatre Company. He made his cinema debut in 1977 with a small role in The Love Letters from Teralba Road and appeared in several more Australian films over the next two years such as Stir and Money Movers. In 1980, Brown became known to international audiences for his performance in Breaker Morant. He is best known to American television audiences for his Golden Globe and Emmy nominated role as Luke O'Neil in The Thorn Birds, starring Richard Chamberlain and Rachel Ward, whom he later married. In the 1990s and more recently, Brown appeared in American and Australian TV productions and movies, such as Two Hands, as well as in British TV commercials. He received the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Breaker Morant and for Two Hands.