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Jepson was educated at Trinity Grammar School and the University of New South Wales.
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Tristan Jepson
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While still an undergraduate law student, he began to write and perform comedy as director of the University of New South Wales" Law Revue. On graduation in 2003, he joined the cast of the American Film Institute Award nominated sketch comedy television programme Big Bite, where he was perhaps best known for impersonations of Tom Gleisner in parody sketches of The Panel. Diagnosed with clinical depression in 1998, Jepson suffered bouts during his university years and committed suicide by drug overdose, aged 26.
The Tristan Jepson Memorial Fund, named in his honor, is an organization which works to foreground issues of mental illness in the law, including law students, graduates, practising lawyers, and judges.
The University of New South Wales inaugurated an annual Tristan Jepson Memorial Lecture in 2006.
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Australia