Colin Friels, the Scottish-born Australian actor has crossed his late-sixties of age. The husband of Judy Davis, Colin Friels is a cancer survivor!
How’s Colin Friels health now? Keep reading for more on Colin Friels net worth, family, health & children.
How Much Is Colin Friels Net Worth in 2024?
Colin is one of the most celebrated actors when it comes to the Australian film industry. Along with the fame and reputation he has garnered Colin Friels’s net worth is in millions. As of 2024, actor Colin Friels holds a net worth of $7 million which includes his assets, income, and properties.
Is Colin Friels Still Alive, Colin Friels Health Now?
Yes, prominent Australian actor Colin Friels is still alive. As of recent updates, he continues to be active in his career despite facing health challenges in the past. In 1997, Colin Friels was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and the side effects of the treatment caused him to give up on his well-to-do role in Channel Nine’s Water Rats. It’s not that Colin has given up on acting, he has been performing on the theatres.
Colin Friels collapsed during one of his stage performances in 2016. Theatres are far more hectic and tiring than films, yet Collin seems entirely devoted to the plays rather than the big screen.
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He reasons his hiatus from the movies as;
‘It’s just I’m getting old enough to play parts that I like. I worked out a long time ago that theatre is dog’s work, but you’ve got to be a pretty good dog to do it.
If you want your dogs to bring your horses back in really good shape, you send out your best dogs. That’s what theatre’s like, but I’m addicted to it. I do a big play, I end up in hospital, it nearly kills me and I think, ‘F— it, I’ll never do another play as long as I live’. Then 18 months later, I get the craving.’
Colin Friels Married Life With Wife Judy Davis!
Cancer survivor Collin Friels has been married to actor Judy Davis for more than three decades now. Colin Friels and his wife Judy Davis have been together in thick & thin. Colin Friels and his wife Judy Davis have two children daughter Charlotte and a son Jack. The husband-wife duo has collaborated in many movies together.
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Colin Friels’s wife Judy Davis has directed a couple of plays for her husband Colin Friels. Talking about her husband Judy Davis in an interview said;
“I know him very well as an actor, which makes it much easier. He needs time to find the truth. Until he has found the truth of the moment, the arms and everything are moving everywhere and he’s very restless.”
Well as of now Colin Friels and wife Judy Davis has been together for quite long time and undoubtedly the couple is living a blissful married life together.
Colin Friels Wiki-Biography
Colin Friels is an Australian actor born on 25th September 1952. He was born & raised in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland. At age 11, Colin along with his family moved to Darwin, Australia.
Colin Friels graduated in the year 1976 from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA). He initially worked as a bricklayer laborer before joining the academy.
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Colin Friels started with a few roles on a small screen and in theatres. He presented the long-running series ‘Play School,’ in 1970. Friels had his debut appearance in the film Monkey Grip. He was featured as the main character in the movie Malcolm, for which he was awarded the best actor award at the 1986 AFI Award.
With movies like Ground Zero, Darkman, Hard Corps and many more Colin Friels has performed various character of different genre. For his role as Frank Holloway in Water Rats, he won the most outstanding actor at the 1997 awards.
He was cast as one of the main characters in the film series, BlackJack. He was starred in the 2010 movie Killing Time, as notorious underworld figure Lewis Moran.
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