Peter Phelps is op 20 september 1960 geboren te Sydney, Australië. Hij is het meest bekend van zijn rol als Peter Church
in de Australische tv-serie Stingers.
Hij begon zijn acteercarrièrre begin jaren '80 in de soap The Restless Years (voor Network 10). Na deze soap speelde
hij een hoofdrol in de soap Sons and Daughters. Begin jaren '90 speelde hij ook mee in Baywatch.
Peter Phelps is één van de beste en meest bekende Australische acteurs.
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Peter Phelps is one of Australia's
busiest and best known actors. He has appeared in dozens of film, television and theatre productions, spent four years in
the United States, wrote a best-selling book (a wry look at his years in Hollywood) and won an AFI Television Best Actor Award
for portraying a rape victim in an episode of GP.
He was Abo Henry in the chilling Blue Murder, Les
Darcy in The Les Darcy Story and Mick Webb in One Way Ticket, a telemovie inspired by a 1993 jailbreak.
He
played opposite Jason Donovan in the movie Rough Diamonds and with Suddenly Susan regular Judd Nelson in the
telemovie Blackwater Trail.
He was the lead in the Australian feature films Zone 39, The Lighthorsemen
and Playing Beatie Bow and has starred in films in Italy and the Czech Republic. On television, Phelps was a series
regular on Fire, The Flying Doctors and Baywatch. His extensive guest credits include Police Rescue,
Heartbreak High, A Country Practice and Rafferty's Rules.
But nothing he has done, he says, matches
the scope and opportunities of Stingers. He has relished researching the two very different perspectives of his role
— the duality of a cop masquerading as a crim.
"This project gives me the chance to play so many different parts.
I like that. I like to live vicariously in roles such as Abo in Blue Murder and it's the same with this show."
He
was rewarded for his work on Stingers with a Silver Logie for Most Popular Actor in 2002 and received a nomination
for Most Popular Actor in 2000.
Peter Phelps had a big part in the feature film Lantana, which starred Anthony
LaPaglia, Geoffrey Rush and Barbara Hershey, and also featured in Ned Kelly with Heath Ledger.
Phelps is also
relishing his latest role — fatherhood. He and partner Donna Fowkes became proud parents when they welcomed their daughter,
Aja Blue, in March 2003.
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