Stephen Curry
Award-winning Actor, MC & Host
Stephen Curry has established himself as one of Australia’s most talented character actors. He became a household name with his breakout role in the much-loved classic Australian film The Castle, playing Dale Kerrigan. Since then he has starred in many television series and films including most recently Population 11 (STAN), Bay of Fires (ABC) and Ten Pound Poms (STAN). The short film Favourites screened at 2024 Tribeca Film Festival and will also play at the St Kilda Film Festival opening night 2024.
As a performer, recent screen work includes Thor: Love & Thunder, Lone Wolf and the recently acclaimed June Again.
TV roles are wide and vast and include True Stories with Hamish & Andy, Open Slather, Hiding, The Time of our Lives series 1 &2, It’s a Date, Fat Tony & Co, Mr & Mrs Murder, Redfern Now, Rake, Cliffy, Save Your Legs, The Cup, Cloudstreet, Rogue, Thunderstruck, The Night We Called it a Day, Take Away, The Nugget, and The Wog Boy. Also, Wilfred, 30 Seconds, False Witness, The Informant, The Secret Life of Us, Changi, Frontline, Queen Kat, Carmel and St Jude, Day of the Roses, Mary Bryant, Good Guys, Bad Guys. He also starred in the short film You Better Watch Out with Chris Haywood and Dan Wyllie.
In 2007 he took on the challenging role of Graham Kennedy in the biopic, The King. This garnered him awards including an AFI for Best Lead Actor in a television drama; a Silver Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actor in a Drama; and the ASTRA award for Most Outstanding Performance by an Actor. In 2027 the feature film Hounds of Love secured Stephen nominations for Best Actor in a feature film, at both the AACTA Awards and FCCA Awards.
On stage Stephen has performed his solo show, Live, Intimate and Completely Unqualified at Noosa LIVE Festival 2018, as well as QI Live, The Writers (MIFC 2013) securing a ‘Golden Gibbo’ nomination, and with Shaun Micallef in the world-renowned sketches of Peter Cook/Dudley Moore in Good Evening (a live show performed at Sydney Opera House and Melbourne Comedy Festival, as well as seasons in Brisbane and Perth).
Stephen is also a highly regarded MC and Host. He was the Host of the 2018 AACTA (60th Anniversary event) & 2008 AFI (50th Anniversary event) Awards Show and has also presented numerous times at the AACTA/AFI Awards, the Logies, the ASTRA Awards and the IF Awards. Stephen has MC’d many events across the country including Better Business Awards, National Good Food Guide Awards, the Media Federation Awards, the ACRA Awards, St Kilda Film Festival Opening Night, a Collingwood Football Club Season Launch, the Master Builders Association of Victoria (MBAV) Awards and the Kookaburras Hockey Victorian Awards to name a few!
Previous narrating work includes Hunted (series 1 & 2), Blow Up and Childrens Symphony shows for both the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Stephen is an Ambassador for the organisation Save the Children.