Biografia
Tony Llewellyn-Jones, born in London, graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1971 and was soon invited to join the Melbourne Theatre Company. Over the following two years, he appeared in numerous productions such as Tonight at 8.30, Mother Courage, The Cherry Orchard, How Does Your Garden Grow?, The Time is Not Yet Ripe, Danton's Death, Paying the Piper, An Ideal Husband, You Want It Don't You Billy?, Macquarie, The Plough and The Stars, Forget-Me-Not-Lane, The Tavern, Sticks and Bones, and Batman's Beachhead.
Tony returned to the Melbourne Theatre Company for performances in The Visit (2003), Life x 3 (2004), Realism (2009), and more recently North By Northwest, a collaboration between MTC and Kay & McLean Productions. His stage work also includes appearances with the Old Tote Theatre Company, Marian Street, Nimrod Theatre, Griffin, Belvoir, and Bell Shakespeare. However, he is predominantly associated with the Sydney Theatre Company, where he has performed in The Crucible, Saint Joan, Life After George, Corporate Vibes, Amigos, Metamorphosis, The Tempest, and King Lear. In 2018, he appeared in Hay Fever at the Sydney Opera House for the Sydney Theatre Company.
In 2012, Tony toured Australia in Yes, Prime Minister, produced by Guild, Woods & Bryce Productions.
His extensive television credits include Rake, I Spry, The Prime Minister Is Missing, Underbelly, G.P., All Saints, Hell Has Harbour Views, BackBerner, Grass Roots, 13 Gantry Row, The Paper Boy, One Day Miller, and Who Do You Think You Are?.
On film, Tony has appeared in Illuminations, Inside Looking Out, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Girl Who Met Simone de Beauvoir in Paris, Fatty Finn, Seeing Red, Man of Flowers, Cosi, and Human Touch.
Additionally, Tony has worked as a producer on several Paul Cox feature films, including Man of Flowers, My First Wife, Cactus, Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent van Gogh, Human Touch, Salvation, and Force of Destiny.
