John Noble is an Australian film and television actor, and theater director of more than 80 plays. He was born in Port Pirie, South Australia

Port Pirie, South Australia

-Transport:Port Pirie is located off National Highway One. It is serviced by an airport five minutes out of the city.- Railways :The first railways in Port Pirie were of the narrow [3' 6"] gauge....

, Australia and is currently starring as scientist Walter Bishop

Walter Bishop (Fringe)

Walter Bishop, Ph.D. is a fictional character on the Fox television series Fringe. He is portrayed by John Noble. Noble also plays Walter's counterpart in the show's parallel universe, who is referred to in the show as Walternate.-Arc:...

 in the J. J. Abrams

J. J. Abrams

Jeffrey Jacob "J. J." Abrams is an American film and television producer, screenwriter, director, actor, and composer. He wrote and produced feature films before co-creating the television series Felicity...

 television series Fringe

Fringe (TV series)

Fringe is an American science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. The series follows a Federal Bureau of Investigation "Fringe Division" team based in Boston, Massachusetts under the supervision of Homeland Security...

.

He made occasional appearances on the television series 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...

. He is internationally known for his performance as Denethor

Denethor

Denethor II of the House of Húrin is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Return of the King, which is the third and final part of his novel The Lord of the Rings. In the novel, he is the 26th and penultimate ruling Steward of Gondor....

 in The Lord of the Rings trilogy

The Lord of the Rings film trilogy

The Lord of the Rings is an epic film trilogy consisting of three fantasy adventure films based on the three-volume book of the same name by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. The films are The Fellowship of the Ring , The Two Towers and The Return of the King .The films were directed by Peter...

. His latest film is One Night with the King

One Night with the King

One Night with the King is a historical epic film that was released in 2006 in the United States. Based on the novel Hadassah: One Night with the King by Tommy Tenney and Mark Andrew Olsen, One Night with the King is a dramatization of the Old Testament Bible story of Esther, who risked her life by...

. He played Russian Consul Anatoly Markov in the sixth season of the American television series 24

24 (TV series)

24 is an American television series produced for the Fox Network and syndicated worldwide, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method of narration...

. In 2011 he appeared as Real Estate tycoon Leland Monroe in Rockstar's

Rockstar Games

Rockstar Games is a major video game developer and publisher based in New York City, owned by Take-Two Interactive following its purchase of UK video game publisher BMG Interactive. The brand is mostly known for Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne, L.A...

 video game L.A. Noire

L.A. Noire

L.A. Noire is a 2011 crime video game developed by Team Bondi and published by Rockstar Games. It was released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows. It was released as a 3-disc game for the Xbox 360 console, which prompts the player to switch to another disc at certain points in the...

. He is also the voice of Unicron

Unicron

Unicron is a fictional character from the Transformers universe and toyline. Created by Floro Dery, he was introduced in the 1986 animated film The Transformers: The Movie as the film's main antagonist. Unicron is a prodigiously large robot whose scale reaches planetary proportions, and he is also...

 for the television show Transformers: Prime

Transformers: Prime

Transformers: Prime, also known as Transformers: Prime –The Animated Series, is an American computer-animated television series based on the Transformers toy franchise by Hasbro. It airs on the The Hub in the United States...

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Personal life

John is married to Penny Noble. They have three children: Daniel Noble, Jess Noble and Actress Samantha Noble

Samantha Noble

Samantha C. Noble is an Australian actress who has worked on television series and films. She is currently best known for her role as Jade/Amitiel in Gabriel, and has appeared in several films including See No Evil and .-Personal life:...

. In 2011, John's hobbies were reported to be "music and painting".

Filmography

Film appearances
Year	Film	Role	Notes
1988	The Dreaming	Dr. Richards
1989	A Sting in the Tale	Prime Minister's minder
1990	Call Me Mr. Brown	Sergeant
1993	The Nostradamus Kid The Nostradamus Kid The Nostradamus Kid is a 1992 Australian feature film written and directed by Bob Ellis.The film is a romantic comedy about the religious and sexual coming of age of a 1960s Seventh-day Adventist boy. Ken Elkin is a "randy young man" who is told that the world is about to end...	General Booth
1999	Airtight	Sorrentino	Made for TV Movie
2000	The Monkey's Mask The Monkey's Mask The Monkey's Mask is a 2000 thriller film directed by Samantha Lang. It stars Susie Porter and Kelly McGillis. Porter plays a lesbian private detective who falls in love with a suspect in the disappearance of a young woman...	Mr. Norris
	Virtual Nightmare	Dad	Made for TV Movie
2002	The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers	Denethor (extended edition)
	The Outsider The Outsider (2002 film) The Outsider is a 2002 Western film starring Tim Daly and Naomi Watts. The film is based on Penelope Williamson's novel. Similar to Angel and the Badman where John Wayne plays a wounded outlaw who is sheltered by a Quaker family.-Plot summary:...	Fergus Hunter	Made for TV Movie
	Superfire Superfire The idea of superfire is to locate two turrets in a row, one behind the other, but with the second turret located above the one in front so that the second turret could fire over the first...	Paul Baylis	Made for TV Movie
2003	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is a 2003 epic fantasy-drama film directed by Peter Jackson that is based on the second and third volumes of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings...	Denethor Denethor Denethor II of the House of Húrin is a fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Return of the King, which is the third and final part of his novel The Lord of the Rings. In the novel, he is the 26th and penultimate ruling Steward of Gondor....	Critics Choice Award for Best Acting Ensemble National Board of Review Award for Best Cast National Board of Review Award for Best Cast The National Board of Review Award for Best Acting by an Ensemble is an annual film award given by the National Board of Review.-1990s:... Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture  Nominated — Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast The Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Cast is an annual award given by the Phoenix Film Critics Society.-2000s:*2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring...
2004	Fracture Fracture (2004 film) Fracture is a 2004 New Zealand film written and directed by Larry Parr and based on the novel by Maurice Gee. The film is set in Wellington and stars Kate Elliott, Jared Turner and Australian John Noble...	Howard Peet
	The Mystery of Natalie Wood	Irving Pichel, Director	Made for TV movie
2006	One Night with the King One Night with the King One Night with the King is a historical epic film that was released in 2006 in the United States. Based on the novel Hadassah: One Night with the King by Tommy Tenney and Mark Andrew Olsen, One Night with the King is a dramatization of the Old Testament Bible story of Esther, who risked her life by...	Prince Admantha
	Running Scared Running Scared (2006 film) Running Scared is a 2006 crime film written and directed by Wayne Kramer and released by New Line Cinema. The film stars Paul Walker, Cameron Bright, Vera Farmiga, Chazz Palminteri, Alex Neuberger and Johnny Messner. It was released in the United States on February 24, 2006...	Ivan Yugorsky
	Voodoo Lagoon	Ben
2010	Risen	Eddie Thomas
	The Last Airbender The Last Airbender The Last Airbender is a 2010 American fantasy adventure film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. It is a live-action film adaptation of the first season to the Nickelodeon animated series Avatar: The Last Airbender....	Dragon Spirit

Television appearances
Year	TV Series	Role	Episodes	Notes
1991	Police Rescue Police Rescue Police Rescue was an Australian television series which originally aired on ABC TV between 1989 and 1996. It was produced by ABC and Southern Star Xanadu in association with the BBC....	Sergeant	1
	Agatha Christie: Poirot	Rigoletto	1
1993	Time Trax Time Trax Time Trax was an American/Australian co-produced science fiction television series that first aired in 1993. A police officer, sent through time into the past, has to track down and return convicted criminals who have escaped prison in the future...	Mr. Michaels	1
1997	Big Sky	Graham James	1
1998	Water Rats Water Rats (TV series) Water Rats is an Australian TV police procedural broadcast on the Nine Network from 1996 to 2001. The series was based around the men and women of the Sydney Water Police who fight crime across Sydney Harbour and surrounding locales. The show was set on and around Goat Island in Sydney...	Dr. Harry	1
1998–2004	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...	Dr. John Madsen	32
2000	Tales of the South Seas	Christian Ambrose	1
2001	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World	Inspector Robert Anderson	1
	The Bill The Bill The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...	Commander Warren	1
2001–06	Home and Away Home and Away Home and Away is an Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney since July 1987 and is airing on the Seven Network since 17 January 1988. It is the second-longest-running drama and most popular soap opera on Australian television...	Dr. Helpman	9
2002	Young Lions Young Lions (TV series) Young Lions was an Australian TV police drama broadcast on the Nine Network in 2002 and in Ireland on RTÉ Two.The series was based around the professional and private lives of four rookie detectives, the Young Lions, of South West 101, an inner city Sydney police station.The program rated poorly...	Adam Gallagher	4
	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...	Michael Kranz	1
2006	Stargate SG-1 Stargate SG-1 Stargate SG-1 is a Canadian-American adventure and military science fiction television series and part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Stargate franchise. The show, created by Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner, is based on the 1994 feature film Stargate by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich...	Meurik	1	Season 9 Episode 20 "Camelot"
2007	Journeyman Journeyman (TV series) Journeyman is a 2007 American science fiction television drama created by Kevin Falls for 20th Century Fox Television which aired on the NBC television network. It starred Kevin McKidd as Dan Vasser, a San Francisco reporter who involuntarily travels through time...	Wine Connoisseur	1
	The Unit The Unit The Unit is an American action-drama television series that focuses on a top-secret military unit modeled after the real-life U.S. Army special operations unit commonly known as Delta Force...	The CEO	1
	24 24 (TV series) 24 is an American television series produced for the Fox Network and syndicated worldwide, starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer. Each 24-episode season covers 24 hours in the life of Bauer, using the real time method of narration...	Anatoly Markov	2
	Pirate Islands: The Lost Treasure of Fiji	Blackheart	13
2008–current	Fringe Fringe (TV series) Fringe is an American science fiction television series created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. The series follows a Federal Bureau of Investigation "Fringe Division" team based in Boston, Massachusetts under the supervision of Homeland Security...	Walter Bishop Walter Bishop (Fringe) Walter Bishop, Ph.D. is a fictional character on the Fox television series Fringe. He is portrayed by John Noble. Noble also plays Walter's counterpart in the show's parallel universe, who is referred to in the show as Walternate.-Arc:...	65	2008: Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film 2009: Nominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film  2009: Nominated — Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television The following are a list of Saturn Award winners for Best Supporting Actor on Television:N.B. Year column refers to year of eligibility, the actual ceremonies are held the following year to those stated....   2010: Won - Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor on Television The following are a list of Saturn Award winners for Best Supporting Actor on Television:N.B. Year column refers to year of eligibility, the actual ceremonies are held the following year to those stated....
2011	Dark Matters: Twisted But True	Himself	-	Host
	Transformers: Prime Transformers: Prime Transformers: Prime, also known as Transformers: Prime –The Animated Series, is an American computer-animated television series based on the Transformers toy franchise by Hasbro. It airs on the The Hub in the United States...	Unicron Unicron Unicron is a fictional character from the Transformers universe and toyline. Created by Floro Dery, he was introduced in the 1986 animated film The Transformers: The Movie as the film's main antagonist. Unicron is a prodigiously large robot whose scale reaches planetary proportions, and he is also...		Voice only
TBA	Guardians of Luna Guardians of Luna Guardians of Luna is a feature film slated for a 2012 release with a television series planned for 2013. Produced by Cybergraphix Animation and distributed by FUNimation Entertainment...	Constantine Voira		In production

Other work

• Artistic Director of Stage Company of South Australia 1977–1987
• Head of Drama, Brent St. School of Arts (Sydney) 1997–2000
• Voice of the character Bishop in the multi-platform game by EA and Pandemic The Saboteur (2009)
• Actor of Leland Monroe in the multi-platform video game L.A. Noire
  L.A. Noire
  L.A. Noire is a 2011 crime video game developed by Team Bondi and published by Rockstar Games. It was released for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows. It was released as a 3-disc game for the Xbox 360 console, which prompts the player to switch to another disc at certain points in the...
  
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External links

• Official site
• Fringe TV Fansite
• John Noble interview about Fringe