Craig McLachlan

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Craig McLachlan
Born Craig Dougall McLachlan
(1965-09-01) 1 September 1965 (age 59)
Long Jetty, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation Actor, singer, musician, composer,Agent
Spouse(s) single

Craig Dougall McLachlan (born 1 September 1965) is a Gold Logie award winning Australian actor, musician and singer and composer. He has been involved in film, television and music theatre for 25 years. He is best known for appearing in the soap operas Neighbours[1] and Home and Away and the BBC One spy drama Bugs.

Biography

Craig McLachlan first appeared on Australian television in a guest role on The Young Doctors. He was cast as Henry Ramsay, brother of Kylie Minogue's character Charlene, in Channel 10's Neighbours. After appearing in more than 800 episodes and winning the Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television (1990)[2] and Silver Logie, he was contracted to Seven Network's Home and Away playing schoolteacher Grant Mitchell.

A singer, guitarist and songwriter, McLachlan enjoyed international success in a concurrent pop music career. He had hits in Australian and the UK with a remake of the Bo Diddley song "I Need You Baby (Mona)" and with self-penned songs "Amanda", "One Reason Why" and "On My Own". He toured the UK and Europe with his band Check 1-2.

In 1993 McLachlan starred as Danny Zuko in the West End revival of the musical Grease alongside Deborah Gibson and Sonia Evans. In his stage musical career he starred as Frank N Furter in The Rocky Horror Show, Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Bob Wallace in White Christmas and Billy Flynn in Chicago.

In the mid-1990s McLachlan starred in three series of the BBC television series Bugs and appeared in Catherine the Great alongside Catherine Zeta-Jones and Omar Sharif.

Throughout the first decade of the 21st century, McLachlan appeared in around 20 film and television projects, including the American movie Superfire, as Stuart Diver in the film Hero's Mountain, and Blackjack with Colin Friels. In 2004 he played Michael Chamberlain in Through My Eyes, an account of the Lindy Chamberlain story, and began work in the recurring role of Kane Morgan in McLeod's Daughters. He played Jeff Kennard in the Australian film Hating Alison Ashley, worked alongside Benjamin Bratt and James Franco in The Great Raid. and starred with John Jarratt in Savages Crossing, for which he composed score.

McLachlan appeared regularly in the Network Seven TV series Packed to the Rafters as ageing rocker Steve Wilson and was cast in the fourth season of Rescue: Special Ops as Hayden Bradley. He played the role of Steve, the handsome gay gardener, in the award-winning production At Home With Julia, and appeared in the ABC comedy Lowdown. In 2011 McLachlan had a guest-starring role in an episode of NCIS Los Angeles.

In 2011, British group Rizzle Kicks sampled McLachlan's version of 'Mona' for their single "Mama Do the Hump", which charted at number two.

McLachlan returned to Australia in 2012 to work on a then new TV series, The Doctor Blake Mysteries, a period crime drama set in Ballarat in 1959–60. He plays the title role, Dr Lucien Blake, a medical practitioner with a knack for solving murders and annoying the police. The first two seasons originally screened on ABC Television in 2013 and 2014.

In 2013, McLachlan was again cast as Frank N Furter in a revival of The Rocky Horror Show touring Australia in 2014.[3] In December 2014, McLachlan revealed that he was unable to return to Neighbours for the show's 30th anniversary celebrations due to scheduling conflicts and his involvement in The Doctor Blake Mysteries.[4] However, McLachlan agreed to take part in the documentary special Neighbours 30th: The Stars Reunite, which aired in Australia and the UK in March 2015.[5][6]

Personal life

McLachlan has a teenage son[7] from his relationship with British actress and voice artist Charlotte Avery.[8] He was previously married to Karen Williams and fellow Neighbours actress Rachel Friend.

Discography

Studio albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
AUS
[9]		 NDL
[10]		 NZ
[11]		 UK
[12]
Craig McLachlan & Check 1-2[13] 4 88 49 10
Hands Free[14]
  • Released: 1992
  • Label: Epic Records
 — — — —
Craig McLachlan & The Culprits[15] — — — —

Musical albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions
AUS
[9]		 UK
[12]
Grease (Original London Stage Cast Soundtrack)[16] — 20
The Rocky Horror Show (Australian Cast Recording)[17]
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: TriStar Music
 — —

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
AUS
[9]		 BEL
[18]		 GER
[19]		 IRE
[20]		 NED
[21]		 NZ
[22]		 UK
[23]
1989 "Rock the Rock" (as Craig McLachlan & Check 1–2) 36 — — — — — — Craig McLachlan & Check 1–2
1990 "Mona" (as Craig McLachlan & Check 1–2) 3 8 44 5 26 16 2
"Amanda" (as Craig McLachlan & Check 1–2) 24 — — 16 — 22 19
"I Almost Felt Like Crying" (as Craig McLachlan & Check 1–2) 103 — — — — — 50
1991 "On My Own" 23 — — — — — 59 Hands Free
1992 "One Reason Why" 57 — — — — — 29
"I Hear You Knocking" 90 — — — — — —
"Time Warp" (with Australian Cast) — — — — — — — The Rocky Horror Show Cast Recording
1993 "You're the One That I Want" (duet with Deborah Gibson) — — — 24 — — 13 Grease Cast Recording
"Grease" — — — — — — 44
1995 "If We Were Angels" (as Craig McLachlan & The Culprits) — — — — — — — Craig McLachlan & The Culprits
"Everyday" (as Craig McLachlan & The Culprits) — — — — — — 65
1996 "Hear the World Cry" (as Craig McLachlan & The Culprits) — — — — — — —

Videos

  • Craig McLachlan & Check 1–2: The Video (featured an interview and the video clips for "Mona", "Amanda", "Rock the Rock" and "I Almost Felt Like Crying") (1990)

Filmography

Films

Year Film Role Notes
1991 Heroes II: The Return Lt. Walter Carey TV movie
1992 Mad Bomber in Love The Whip
Absent Without Leave James Edwards
1995 Catherine the Great Saltykov TV movie
2001 Abschied in den Tod Det. Const. Steve McNamara TV movie
Let's Get Skase Eric Carney
My Husband My Killer Warren Elkins TV movie
Invincible Lieutenant TV movie
Cubbyhouse Bill
2002 Heroes' Mountain Stuart Diver TV movie
2004 Through My Eyes Michael Chamberlain TV movie
2005 Hating Alison Ashley Jeff Kennard
The Great Raid 2nd Lt. Riley
2009 Savages Crossing Mory
Amar A Morir Nick
2012 The Last Match Val Short film

TV

Year Show Role Notes
1986 Sons and Daughters Student 1 episode
1987–1989 Neighbours Henry Ramsay Series regular
1990–1991 Home and Away Grant Mitchell Series regular
1995–1999 Bugs Ed Russell Series regular
1999 Tribe Ralph Leyton
2001–2002 Always Greener Greg Graham Recurring: 5 episodes
2004 McLeod's Daughters Kane Morgan Recurring: 10 episodes
2005 Supernova Alistair Foster 1 episode: Unity
2008 City Homicide Leon Grasby 1 episode: Golden
2008–2009 Packed to the Rafters Steve Wilson Recurring: 5 episodes
2009 The Cut Dutch Holland 1 episode: A Falcon's Tail
2010 Lowdown Ben Hollander 1 episode: Wasp in Translation
2011 Rescue Special Ops Hayden Bradley Recurring: 6 episodes
At Home with Julia Steve the Gardener Recurring: 4 episodes
NCIS: Los Angeles Clifford Bosworth 1 episode: Lone Wolf
2012 Packed to the Rafters Steve Wilson 1 episode: Endings and Beginnings
Lowdown Ben Hollander 1 episode: Ben Behaving Badly
Lightning Point Keith Mitchell 1 episode: Family Ties
2013 House Husbands Damo Recurring: 3 episodes
Redfern Now Jack 1 episode: Consequences
2013 –
present		 The Doctor Blake Mysteries Dr. Lucien Blake Series regular
2015 Neighbours 30th: The Stars Reunite Himself Documentary

References

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Preceded by Actor to portray Caractacus Potts
2007		 Succeeded by
Kevin Kennedy

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