Aaron C. Jeffery is a Logie Award

Logie Award

The TV Week Logie Awards are the Australian television industry awards, which have been presented annually since 1959. Renamed by Graham Kennedy in 1960 after he won the first 'Star Of The Year' award, the name 'Logie' awards honours John Logie Baird, a Scotsman who invented the television as a...

 winning New Zealand – Australian actor.

Early life

Born in Howick

Howick, New Zealand

Howick is an eastern suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, forming part of what is sometimes called East Auckland. Due to the relatively numerous remaining heritage buildings and other historical remnants from its early European settlement past, it has been called "perhaps Auckland's most historically...

, Auckland, Jeffery moved to Australia at the age of 17 and studied acting at NIDA

National Institute of Dramatic Art

The National Institute of Dramatic Art is an Australian national training institute for students of theatre, film, and television, based in the Sydney suburb of Kensington. It is supported by the federal Office for the Arts, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. NIDA is located adjacent...

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Career

After graduated in 1993 from NIDA he began his television career on the children's programme Ship to Shore. Jeffery is best known for his role as Alex Ryan on the drama McLeod's Daughters

McLeod's Daughters

McLeod's Daughters is a Logie award-winning Australian drama series that aired on the Nine Network from 2001 to 2009. It tells the story of two sisters, Claire and Tess McLeod, who are reunited after they inherit the family farm...

, which will end its run after the 2008 season. He also appeared in the third season of the New Zealand drama series Outrageous Fortune

Outrageous Fortune (TV series)

Outrageous Fortune was a New Zealand comedy/drama television series, which was created by James Griffin and Rachel Lang and was produced by South Pacific Pictures...

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Personal life

In late 2005, Jeffery pleaded guilty in a South Australian court to assaulting and threatening to kill his then-wife. Jeffery escaped a potential 10-year jail term and was released on a 12-month good behaviour bond with no conviction recorded.

After the 2005 court case, Jeffery and his wife divorced. He then dated his McLeods Daughters co-star Michelle Langstone

Michelle Langstone

Michelle Langstone is a New Zealand actress who has been in many films and television series over the years in both New Zealand, and in Australia. She starred as Dr. Katherine "Kat" Manx in the hit-television series Power Rangers: S.P.D., and later appeared as Master Guin in Power Rangers: Jungle...

. The relationship ended in 2006.

Since 2010 Jeffrey is in a relationship with former co-star Zoe Naylor

Zoe Naylor

Zoe Naylor is an Australian actress as well as journalist, presenter, MC, model, voice-artist and producer.-Early life:...

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Awards

In both 2004 and 2007, Jeffery won the Silver Logie

Logie Award

The TV Week Logie Awards are the Australian television industry awards, which have been presented annually since 1959. Renamed by Graham Kennedy in 1960 after he won the first 'Star Of The Year' award, the name 'Logie' awards honours John Logie Baird, a Scotsman who invented the television as a...

 for Most Popular Actor in a Drama Series for his role on McLeod's Daughters.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Square One	Jeremy Hostick
1998		Det. Sr. Const. Wayne Prior
1999	Strange Planet	Joel
2009	Beautiful Beautiful (2009 film) Beautiful is a 2009 Australian independent film, written and directed by Dean O'Flaherty, which was released by Adelaide-based Kojo Pictures on 5 March 2009. The film marked the feature filmmaking debut of both O'Flaherty and Kojo Pictures...	Alan
2009	X-Men Origins: Wolverine X-Men Origins: Wolverine X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a 2009 American action film based on the Marvel Comics' fictional character Wolverine. The fourth installment in the X-Men film series, it was released worldwide on May 1, 2009...	Thomas Logan

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	Ship to Store	Nick	9 episodes
1994		Brandon	Episode: "A Tree Grows in Botswana"
1995	Fire Fire (TV series) Fire is an Australian television series transmitted on the Seven Network between 1995 and 1996. It was shown in the UK & Ireland on Sky One. In 1999 and 2000, the series was shown on Channel 5.The series explored the lives of a platoon of firefighters...	Firefighter Richard 'Banjo' Gates	12 episodes
1995	Blue Murder Blue Murder (mini-series) Blue Murder is a two-part Australian television miniseries produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 1995, and is based on true events. Given its confronting content, the DVD release was classified MA 15+...	Bobby Williams	TV movie
1996-1998	Water Rats Water Rats (TV series) Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001. The series was based around the men and women of the Sydney Water Police who fight crime across Sydney Harbour and surrounding locales. The show was set on and around Goat Island in Sydney...	Const. Terry Watson	42 episodes
1998	Wildside	Walter Chowdrey	Episode: "1.34"
2000	Murder Call Murder Call Murder Call was an Australian television series, created by Hal McElroy for the Southern Star Entertainment and seen on the Nine Network between 1997 and 2000. The idea to the series was born by the books of Tessa Vance by Jennifer Rowe: Suspect/Deadline and Something Wicked...	Rory Simmons	Episode: "Last Act"
2001-2008	McLeod's Daughters McLeod's Daughters McLeod's Daughters is a Logie award-winning Australian drama series that aired on the Nine Network from 2001 to 2009. It tells the story of two sisters, Claire and Tess McLeod, who are reunited after they inherit the family farm...	Alex Ryan	193 episodes
2007	Outrageous Fortune Outrageous Fortune (TV series) Outrageous Fortune was a New Zealand comedy/drama television series, which was created by James Griffin and Rachel Lang and was produced by South Pacific Pictures...	Gary Savage	15 episodes
2008		Jack Cross	13 episodes
2011	Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away is an Australian made-for-television movie that aired on February 21, 2011 on the Nine Network. It is the last of three television movies in the Underbelly Files series, the other two being Tell Them Lucifer was Here and Infiltration.It recounts the true story...	Geoff Leyland	TV movie
2011	East West 101 East West 101 East West 101 is a critically acclaimed and award-winning drama series airing on the SBS network. The series was produced and created by Steven Knapman & Kris Wyld, the team behind other drama series such as Wildside and White Collar Blue....	Hunter	3 episodes
2011	Wild Boys Wild Boys Wild Boys is an Australian television period drama series that began airing on the Seven Network on 4 September, 2011. It is produced by Julie McGauran and Sarah Smith from Southern Star and John Holmes...	Captain Moonlite / Preacher Scott	Episode: "1.5"

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