Education
He then studied performing arts at Penrith in Sydney’s outer west at the University of Western Sydney (Theatre Nepean) before stumbling across an agent in Penny Williams (RIP 2010) in 1992.
He then studied performing arts at Penrith in Sydney’s outer west at the University of Western Sydney (Theatre Nepean) before stumbling across an agent in Penny Williams (RIP 2010) in 1992.
Prior to acting, Le Marquand motorcycled his way around Australia, working on various cattle stations, docks, pubs, barges and melon farms. His first job was a television commercial for Arnott’s Ruffles which was banned a day after its release for sacrilege. His second job was on the Australian television series Police Rescue and since then Steve has played an assortment of thugs, baddies, larrikins and cops (both good and bad) in a number of television shows, including Underbelly:Razor, Rake, Laid, All Saints, Farscape, Crash Palace, Young Lions, Blue Heelers, Water Rats, Big Sky, General Practice, Murder Call, Home and Away, Wildside"", and the American Broadcasting Company mini-series A Difficult Woman.
On film he has featured as a sleazy cult leader in Nick Matthews One Eyed Girl.
(due for release in 2013), a dodgy drug dealer in Stephan Elliott"s A Few Best Men. A battle hardened sergeant in Beneath Hill 60 (which earned him a Film Critics Circle of Australia Best Supporting Actor nomination 2009).
A snarly stockbroker in 2008"s surprise hit, Men"s Group. A tall thug in Jeremy Sims’ Last Train to Freo (for which he was nominated for Best Lead Actor at both the Australian Film Institute and Film Critic’s Circle Awards).
A World World War II 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 co-wrote, produced, directed and starred in the hugely successful theatre production He Died With A Felafel In His Hand, which had its humble beginnings at Rozelle’s Bridge Hotel in 1995 before running for several years in Melbourne, Perth, Hobart, Brisbane, Edinburgh, Toronto, New York and Wagga Wagga.
He recently 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. He won the Nicole Kidman Best Actor Award at Tropfest 1996 for (his own) short film Cliché, and was also the lead actor in the Tropfest 2005 hit, Bomb.
Le Marquand has been seen on stage in Death Of A Salesman, Summer Of The Seventeenth Doll (also for Management and Training Corporation and QTC), Paul, The Spook, Buried Child and Waiting Foreign Godot for Company B Belvoir. Holy Day for the Sydney Theatre Company, Don’s Party for the Melbourne Theatre Company and Society for Technical Communication. Songket and The Return (which was the stage version of Last Train to Freo) for Griffin Theatre.
And was a member of the Society for Technical Communication’s Actors" Company where he appeared in Tales From The Vienna Woods. The Serpents Teeth; Gallipoli and The War Of The Roses (alongside Cate Blanchett) with the Company.
