John McTernan (actor)
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John McTernan is an Australian-based actor, known for several television and theatre roles.

John's career spans thirty years working in theatre, television and film. He has appeared with all the major theatre companies and began is career training and then performing at the Ensemble Theatre in Sydney. He has appeared in several productions there, most recently Wrong Turn at Lungfish in 2008. Previously at the Ensemble; Lovers, The Comedians, Boy Meets Girl, 6 Rms Riv Vu, Sonny and Same Difference.

Work at the Melbourne Theatre Co: includes; Born Yesterday, Twelfth Night (for which he won a Green Room Award), Into the Woods, Assassins, The Glass Menagerie, The Real Thing, Serious Money, High Society, Art, Take Me Out and Boy Gets Girl.
The Nimrod Theatre: Young Mo, Volpone, Inside the Island, The Orestia, Clouds, Romeo and Juliet,Henry IV and Comedy of Errors.

Sydney Theatre Co: The Sunny South, The Venetian Twins, The Caucasian Chalk Circle. Also for various other Theatre companies: Sanctuary, Oleanna, What Did We Do Wrong among others.

John is also well known for his work in music theatre with major roles in Grease, Godspell, Guys and Dolls, Sunset Boulevard, The History of Australia, Joseph and His Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, Shout, Into the Woods, and Assassins. Also for the Production Co. in Melb. She Loves Me, Gypsy, Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed.

His work in film includes: The Brown Out Murders, the ABC feature Fuzzy, The Understudy and Evil Never Dies

. He may be best known through long running continuing roles in TV drama series...winning Logies in both Cop Shop
Cop Shop
Cop Shop was an Australian police drama television series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday operations of both the uniformed police officers and the plain-clothes detectives of the fictional Riverside Police Station....

and G.P. and as Lee Gordon in the mini series Shout the J'OK Story
More recently he has appeared in City Homicide, All Saints
All Saints (TV series)
All Saints is an Australian medical drama which first screened on the Seven Network. The series debuted on 24 February 1998 and concluded its run on 27 October 2009...

, Blue Heelers
Blue Heelers
Blue Heelers is an Australian police drama series which depicted the lives of police officers stationed at the fictional Mount Thomas police station in a small town in Victoria.- Overview :...

, Stingers
Stingers
Stingers was an Australian police drama television series. It ran for eight seasons on the Nine Network before it was canceled in late 2004 due to declining ratings and the late timeslot Channel Nine gave the program...

and Something in the Air a 26 episode children's comedy series Scooter Secret Agent

Awards

McTernan won the 'Best Lead Actor' award in 1982 and 1983 at the Logies for his role in Cop Shop. When he joined the cast on GP, he was up for three Logies – Best Actor in 1990 and Outstanding Actor in 1991, in which he was nominated. He won in 1992 in the 'Outstanding Actor' award.

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