Daniel Henshall Biography, Age, Family, Married, Career, Movies And Tv Shows And Net Worth

Daniel Henshall Biography

Daniel Edwin Henshall is an Australian actor. He gained fame after portraying John Bunting, a real-life serial killer in the film Snowtown based on Snowtown murders of 1999. The movie was directed by Justin Kurzel and screened in international Critics week at Cannes Film Festival.

Daniel Henshall Age

Henshall was born in the year 1982 August 9th. He is 36 years old as of 2018.

Daniel Henshall Family

Henshall was born in Sydney, New South where he also grew up. There is no much information about his parents. He has two older siblings.

Daniel Henshall Dating  | Daniel Henshall Married

There are no records about who Henshall is dating or if he is married. He prefers keeping his personal life private and out of the limelight.

Daniel Henshall Career

Henshall is best known for portraying John Bunting, a real-life serial killer in Justin Kurzel’s award-winning film Snowtown based on the Snowtown murders of 1999. The film screened in International Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011. The film was positively accepted with Roger Ebert who was a film critic and a Pulitzer Prize-winner called it ‘astonishingly good’ while IndieWire a film industry and review website named it as one of the best performances of that year, adding ‘Daniel Henshall’s portrait of real-life murderer John Bunting is painfully good’. Henshell was awarded the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

He took the role of Caleb Brewster a Whaler spy in AMC TV series Turn: Washington’s Spies for four seasons. He also portrayed Adam Cullen an infamous Archibald Prize-winning artist in film Acute Misfortune.  The movie was directed by Thomas. M Wright and was screened at the 2018 Melbourne International Film Festival. The film was also awarded  The Age Critics Award. The film was also positively accepted and Henshell’s performance was highly regarded as Australia’s best.

He appeared in the award-winning psychological horror movie The Babadook horror as nurse Robbie opposite Essie Davis in 2014 and portrayed Luke in Fell opposite Matt Nable in 2014 a movie directed by Kasimir Burgess. He played Kingsley Faraday opposite Sarah Snook in TV series The Beautiful Lie in 2015 and Skinny Man opposite Scarlett Johansson in Ghost in the Shell and starred in Bong Joon Ho’s film Okja, as Blonde a member of the ALF (Animal Liberation Front), alongside Tilda Swinton and Paul Dano. The movie premiered in Official Competition at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.

He will be starring as Slayer in 2019 Guy Nativ’s film Skin opposite Jamie Bell and Vera Farmiga. The film premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival and was awarded the Critics FIPRESCI Prize. The film will have its European premiere at the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival. He will also feature in mini-series Bloom as Griffo alongside Bryan Brown and Jackie Weaver, and was directed by John Curran. Henshall will take the role of Sgt. Baranaby McKenna in Lambs of God directed by Jeffrey Walker alongside Ann Dowd and Essie Davis.

Daniel Henshall Movies And Tv Shows

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Daniel Henshall Net Worth

Henshall has an estimated net worth of $1 million.

Daniel Henshall Babadook

Henshall gets to appear in this psychological horror The Babadook about a single mother who is still grieving the death of her husband struggles with her son fear of an imaginary monster.

Daniel Henshall Ghost In The Shell

Henshall plays Skinny man in this fantasy film Ghost In The Shell about Major who is a cyber enhanced human and first of her kind. She is enhanced to be the perfect soldier whos devoted to stopping the world’s dangerous criminals and terrorists.

Daniel Henshall Okja

Henshall feature in film Okja by film director Bong Joon Ho, as Blonde. It’s about Mija who has been the caretaker and the close companion to Okja a big animal, in her home in the mountains of South Korea. All changes when Okja is taken away by multinational conglomerate Mirando Corporation to New York.

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Daniel Henshall Interview

Source: Quick Flix

SM: Tell me how you got involved in Snowtown.

DH: I’m sure you’ve heard about the other guys getting involved off the street, but it’s pretty traditional, my getting cast in the film. I went down to Sydney, had two or three auditions and got the part.

SM: I understand you couldn’t meet with John [Bunting], to mimic has cadence and such. How do you get into a character like that? Do you try and do as much research as you possible, or do you go in fresh?

DH: Yeah, look we didn’t want to meet John. Personally, I didn’t want to have anything to do with the man. And of course, like you just said, for legal reasons it would have been a massive difficulty. But Justin [Kurzel] from the outset was very much about the relationships in the film and making them as authentic as possible. In the film, the violence comes out of domesticity; it comes out of banality and it comes out of normality, and that’s what makes it so terrifying. What we had to create was an absolute authentic relationship between John and Jamie, John and Elizabeth, John and Robert. Do you know? Getting in the headspace was more about learning to communicate as a father figure, as a mentor, as someone who thought they had integrity and love, and whose violence comes out of disappointment and hurt and pain. That’s the way I looked at it anyway.

SM: Interesting.

DH: Everything we heard about John, from the people we met in the community – I mean, I spent three or four months out there; I did a lot of reading of Debbie Marshall’s book to begin with, and it was just immersing myself in the community. Because we cast from the community, I met over 700 people, and you’d meet people that were 5^th degree separation from John, or people that knew of him, or people that knew him before he went into prison, or people that had just come out of prison with him, and you got this wonderful picture. ‘He was such a normal, average human being; a nice guy who would offer to look after your kids after work, or fix your car, or cook your dinner’. A lot of people had no idea of what he was doing.

SM: To that effect, was there a concern you had at any point about making him seem too human?

DH: No, because, he was. That’s how he fooled them. I mean, it’s an interpretation, but to tell the story of our interpretation, it had to be convincing, and you had to have the audience believe that a guy like this could come into a community and take them on his back, and say ‘I’m going to take you out of this hellhole and bring you through’; like a knight in shining armour. There had to be a humane, human element to him that you could relate to. That’s the most terrifying thing; that that’s how it happened. He came in and offered so many things. No one saw it coming.

SM: Absolutely. Were there any performances or films that you used as inspirations, or at least rough inspirations?

DH: Yeah, I watched a few films from the Dardenne brothers; Belgian filmmakers. And a film called Ballast by an American filmmaker, where the director had cast first-timers and gone for a very naturalistic, very simple and raw approach. That was for the atmosphere of the performance. Yeah, I didn’t really go watch Raging Bull, or any psycho-killer films, or any massive performances which have inspired me in the past. Working from within the community out, basically finding out how this guy would operate in the community; getting to know everybody in the film really well.

SM: I spoke to Justin earlier in the year, and it was just before the film went to Cannes. It hadn’t really screened yet, and we didn’t really know what the audience reaction to the film would be. I’m curious: have you sat in with an audience and what is that experience like?

DH: Yeah, it depends. You can feel the audience move at certain points in the film. They’re absolutely with it the whole way; they’re engrossed and that’s a wonderful thing that Justin and [cinematographer] Adam [Arkapaw] have achieved. It sucks you in and doesn’t let you out until the end. People are absolutely glued to their seat, and some people do find it too hard to handle. Most screenings that I’ve been in, one or two people leave at some point. A lot of people come back in who leave at certain points.

SM: Is that a sign that you’ve done something right? Obviously you want people to sit through the whole thing, but if some people are walking out…?

DH: Yeah, look, it’s an extremely hard sit. When I get a response from people who congratulate us that it hasn’t been sanitised, and it hasn’t been disrespectful, and it’s done with as much sensitivity as possible: that excites me, when people say that, because that’s the effect. We spent so much effort. We didn’t sanitise, but we didn’t push the audience away too much, in telling the truth of the story.

SM: I’m curious, have you been recognised on the street at all, and what kind of reaction do you get from people?

DH: I get a mixed reaction.

SM: (Laughs)

DH: A couple of times people have stopped and just stared, and said, ‘You scared the s*** out of me’, and walked off. People come up and say, ‘You look like that actor who was in this film.’ And I say, ‘What film?’ ‘Snowtown.’ ‘That was me.’ ‘Oh wow, that was a great film. Fantastic. An extremely hard watch, but a film that was done so respectfully, so well’. Yeah, it’s a mixed reaction.

SM: Well I hope it hasn’t affected any of your personal relationships, playing John Bunting.

DH: No, no, all my friends are extremely proud.

SM: Can you tell me what’s coming up next for you? I understand you’re in the new Working Dog film [Any Questions for Ben].

DH: Yeah, that comes out on Australia Day next year, and I just did a small role in an Aussie film called Not Suitable for Children, with Ryan Kwanten and Sarah Snook. That’s it at the moment. Going to the London Film Festival in October. That’s it for now.