Chris Haywood (born 24 July 1948) is an actor/producer who found success with over 400 individual performances in Australian film and television.
Haywood was born in Billericay, Essex, England and migrated to Australia in 1970, directly after graduating from E15 Acting School. Soon after, he was involved with Sydney's Nimrod Theatre Company and according to an interview with ABC reporter Jane Cowan, actually helped build the premises with scrap timber.
Film credits include: The Cars That Ate Paris, Newsfront, Razor Back, In Search of Anna, Kostas, Breaker Morant, Running on Empty, Lonely Hearts, The Clinic, Man of Flowers, Strikebound, Malcolm, The Bit Part, Golden Braid, Quigley Down Under, A Woman's Tale, Muriel's Wedding, Shine, Water Diaries and Jindabyne.
TV credits include: Homicide, Against the Wind, Five Mile Creek, Return to Eden, Waterfront, Boys From The Bush, Water Rats, Farscape, McLeod's Daughters, All Saints, Stingers, Grass Roots and Home and Away.
His performances have been honoured with three Awards from the Australian Film Institute (from a total of eight nominations) for his roles in the feature films A Street to Die and Emerald City, and for television in Stingers as well as the Film Critics Circle Award for Kiss or Kill and the Asian Film Festival Award for In Search of Anna. Additionally, he has garnered three Logie Awards for his work on television-for Essington, Good Thing Going and Janus. Most recently he received the best actor award at the Tampa Bay Film Festival, Florida.
