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Simon Baker
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Simon Baker (born July 30, 1969) is an Australian actor and director. In his television acting career, he is best known for his lead role in the CBS television series The Mentalis…
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Simon Baker (born July 30, 1969) is an Australian actor and director. In his television acting career, he is best known for his lead role in the CBS television series The Mentalist as Patrick Jane and as Nicholas Fallin in The Guardian. In his film acting career, he is best known for the lead role of Riley Denbo in Land of the Dead and Christian Thompson in the film adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada, based on the 2003 novel of the same name. Simon Baker was born to a high school English teacher, Elizabeth Labberton, and a groundskeeper/mechanic, Barry Baker, on 30 July 1969, in Launceston, Tasmania. He was raised as a Roman Catholic. His parents divorced while he was still young. His mother later married Tom Denny, a butcher. Simon Baker also has a sister, currently a doctor in Australia, and three younger half brothers. By 1972, the family had moved from Launceston to Ballina, New South Wales, where Baker's parents hoped to secure better paying jobs. In 1986, he graduated from Ballina High School as Simon Baker-Denny, after completing his primary school education at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Primary School, also in Ballina.
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2026
Scarpetta
TV show Benton Wesley
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2025
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
TV show Keith Mulvaney
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2024
Boy Swallows Universe
TV show Robert Bell
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2023
Limbo
Movie Travis Hurley
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2022
Blaze
Movie Luke
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2022
Roar
TV show Adam
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2021
High Ground
Movie Travis
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2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
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2018
Here and Now
Movie Nick
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2017
Breath
Movie Sando
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2013
I Give It a Year
Movie Guy
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2011
Margin Call
Movie Jared Cohen
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2010
Conan
TV show Self
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2010
Going Vertical: The Short Board Revolution
Movie Narrator
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2010
The Killer Inside Me
Movie Howard Hendricks
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2009
Women in Trouble
Movie Travis McPherson
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2009
Live from Studio Five
TV show Self
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2009
Not Forgotten
Movie Jack Bishop
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2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV show Self - Guest
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2009
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
TV show Self
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2009
The Lodger
Movie Malcolm
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2008
The Mentalist
TV show Patrick Jane
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2007
Sex and Death 101
Movie Roderick Blank
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2006
Smith
TV show Jeff Breen
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2006
The Devil Wears Prada
Movie Christian Thompson
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2006
Something New
Movie Brian Kelly
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2005
Land of the Dead
Movie Riley
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2005
The Ring Two
Movie Max Rourke
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2004
Book of Love
Movie David Walker
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2004
Burst
Movie Director of Photography
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2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
TV show Self
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2001
The Affair of the Necklace
Movie Rétaux de Vilette
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2001
The Guardian
TV show Nick Fallin
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2000
Red Planet
Movie Chip Pettengill
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2000
Sunset Strip
Movie Michael Scott
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1999
Ride with the Devil
Movie George Clyde
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1999
Restaurant
Movie Kenny
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1999
Secret Men's Business
Movie Andy Greville
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1998
Love from Ground Zero
Movie Eric
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1998
Judas Kiss
Movie Junior Armstrong
