Kevin Harrington (actor)
Kevin Harrington is an Australian stage, television and film actor and comedian, who is perhaps best known for his roles as Kevin Findlay on the Australian drama SeaChange in the 1990s and as David Bishop on the soap opera Neighbours.
Early life
Harrington was born 4 September 1959, in Melbourne, Victoria. He graduated at Caroline Chisholm Catholic College in 1977.Career
Harrington joined the Neighbours cast in 1988 as David Bishop, who acts as best man for his father Harold Bishop's wedding to Madge. He returned as a regular in 2003. He was originally chosen partly for his facial resemblance to actor Ian Smith. His character was killed off in 2005 in a plane crash, alongside on-screen wife Liljana and on-screen daughter Serena. Harrington reprised the role in 2014 for the webseries Neighbours vs Zombies.From 1998 until 2001, Harrington played the "slow-witted" business owner Kevin Findlay in SeaChange.
Harrington has appeared in several other television series, including Blue Heelers. He also was a contributing writer for the program All Together Now. He appeared in The Western Red Hill where he played a cop named Barlow. He played Chris Corrigan's brother Derek Corrigan in the Australian miniseries Bastard Boys in 2007. In 2008, he starred in the TV show Underbelly as Moran family patriarch Lewis Moran.
Harrington has also appeared in the movies The Dish, Australian Rules, and The Honourable Wally Norman. For the latter, he received a Best Actor nomination at the 2004 Australian Film Institute Awards.
Before getting into television, he worked in theatre and did stand-up comedy. He also provides voice-overs for radio and television advertisements. In particular, Harrington provided a voice-over for a Victorian Government sponsored television advertisement promoting Vocation Education & Training and Technical and Further Education courses in October 2006.
Harrington starred as ultramarathon runner Cliff Young in the 2012 ABC1 telemovie Cliffy. Harrington had to train and lose weight for the role. In 2014, Harrington reprised his role of Lewis Moran for the Underbelly spin-off Fat Tony & Co..
From 2016 until 2017, Harrington played Ivan in Network Ten drama The Wrong Girl. In 2019, he reprised his role of Kev in the rebooted SeaChange.