Steve Le Marquand
Steve Le Marquand is an Australian actor of stage and screen. He stars in the 2025 dark comedy horror film Penny Lane Is Dead.
Early life and education
Steve Le Marquand was born in Perth, Western Australia.Prior to acting, Le Marquand motorcycled his way around Australia, working at various cattle stations, docks, pubs, barges, and melon farms.
He studied performing arts at Penrith in Sydney's outer west at the University of Western Sydney.
Personal life
Le Marquand is married to Australian actress and singer Pippa Grandison. They have one child together, Charlie Le Marquand.He played cricket for a number of years for many different teams and was also selected for various representative teams. His top score was 116* and best bowling figures of 8/9.
His younger sister is the columnist and media commentator Sarrah Le Marquand.
Career
Television
Le Marquand's first acting job was a TV commercial for Arnott's Ruffles, which was banned a day after its release for sacrilege. His second job was on the Australian TV series Police Rescue and since then he has played an assortment of thugs, baddies, larrikins and cops in a number of TV shows, including Les Norton, Australia's Sexiest Tradie, Janet King; Underbelly: Razor, Rake, Laid, All Saints, Farscape, Crash Palace, Young Lions, Blue Heelers, Water Rats, Big Sky, G.P., Murder Call, Home and Away, Wildside, and the ABC mini-series A Difficult Woman. He played the lead role of Tony Piccolo in the Movie Extra hit Small Time Gangster for which he received an ASTRA Award nomination for Most Outstanding Actor.In 2021 he appeared in Australia's Sexiest Tradie. In 2023 Marquand was announced as part of the cast for Population 11, the second season of The Twelve. Marquand was later announced as part of the cast for Invisible Boys. Marquand was named as part of the cast for the second series of ''Mystery Road: Origin.''
Film
On film he has featured as a crazed colonel in Escape and Evasion; a cheeky cabbie in June Again; a psycho gangster in Locusts; a reclusive cattle station worker in Kriv Stender's Red Dog: True Blue; a down and out ex Rugby League star in Heath Davis' Broke; a sleazy, charismatic cult leader in Nick Matthews' One Eyed Girl; a dodgy drug dealer in Stephan Elliott's A Few Best Men; a battle hardened sergeant in Beneath Hill 60 ; a snarly stockbroker in 2008's surprise hit, Men's Group; a tall thug in Jeremy Sims’ Last Train to Freo ; a WWII digger in Kokoda; a larrikin Aussie climber in Martin Campbell's Vertical Limit; a clumsy, shotty-loving bank robber in Gregor Jordan's Two Hands; a moustachioed cop in David Caesar's Mullet; a weird-arsed beachcomber in Lost Things and an all-singing-all-dancing sailor in Disney’s remake of South Pacific.Le Marquand plays Merrick in the 2025 dark comedy thriller Penny Lane Is Dead, in writer-director Mia'Kate Russell's feature film debut.
Theatre
Le Marquand has been seen on stage in Green Park, ''Ugly Mugs, Songket and The Return for Griffin Theatre; Gaybies for Darlinghurst Theatre; Enemy of the People, Jasper Jones, Death of a Salesman, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Paul, The Spook, Buried Child and Waiting For Godot for Belvoir; Holy Day for the STC, Don’s Party for the MTC and STC; and was a member of the STC's Actors' Company, where he appeared in Tales From The Vienna Woods; The Serpent's Teeth; Gallipoli and The War of the Roses with the Company.Le Marquand co-wrote, produced, directed, and starred in a theatre production of the novel He Died with a Felafel in His Hand'', which had its humble beginnings at Rozelle's Bridge Hotel in Sydney during 1995 before running for several years in Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, Lismore, Hobart, Brisbane, Edinburgh, Toronto, New York, Wagga Wagga and Hong Kong. The stage adaptation's 'rough as guts' humour saw it become the longest running play in Australian history.
Accolades
Le Marquand won the Nicole Kidman Best Actor Award at Tropfest 1996 for short film Cliché, and was also the lead actor in the Tropfest 2005 hit, Bomb.In 2019, during The Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival in Winton, Queensland, Le Marquand was honoured with a star on Winton's Walk of Fame.