Marcus Graham is an Australian film, television and stage actor, writer and director, with roles including Mulholland Drive and Josh Jarman. He was known as a teenage heartthrob in the early 1990s while starring in the Australian TV soap E Street as the character Stanley 'Wheels' Kovac He is also known for his role as Harvey Ryan in Home and Away
Marcus Graham was born in Perth, Western Australia, the son of English-Australian actor Ron Graham and Judy, a ballerina with the West Australian Ballet Company. His parents had separated by the time he was two.[1]
He graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in 1983, before making his professional acting debut in 1986.[citation needed]
Graham has worked extensively in Australian television, first achieving success in the early '90s as Stanley 'Wheels' Kovac in E Street. He went on to star as the lead in Good Guys, Bad Guys and also appeared in All Saints, Shadows of the Heart, The Secret Life of Us, the ABC comedy Stupid, Stupid Man, and the American drama series Charmed.[citation needed]
Graham played the regular role of Harvey Ryan in the Channel 7 series Home and Away, and Pav in Season 1 of Australian drama The Heights. He has played Melbourne underworld figures in two Australian television dramas - Alan Williams in 1995's Blue Murder, and Lewis Caine in 2008's Underbelly.[2]
2006 saw him win an Australian Film Institute award for a guest role on the Channel 7 drama Blue Heelers.[3]
Graham has also worked extensively in theatre throughout his career. Notable stage credits include The Rocky Horror Show (as Frank N Furter), Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Pericles,[4] Twelve Angry Men, Othello, Oedipus the King, Macbeth and Hedda Gabler. He won a Mo Award for his starring role in The Blue Room opposite Sigrid Thornton.[citation needed]
In 2019, Graham formed Ai Films Studio, for which (together with a business partner), he writes, directs and produces. His documentary feature Dream Big Little One has garnered awards at many international film festivals.[5][6]