Nicholas Hope (born 25 December 1958) is a British-born Australian actor. Born in Manchester, England, Hope's family emigrated to the steel and ship building town of Whyalla, South Australia, where he was educated by the Christian Brothers. He played the lead role in Bad Boy Bubby (1993), for which he won the Australian Film Institute Best Actor in a Leading Role award in 1994. He continues to work in film, theatre and television in Australia and Europe. He lives in Sydney, Australia. He also appeared in The School in 2018 and Moon Rock For Monday directed by Kurt Martin and produced by Jim Robison in 2021. In 2004, he published a memoir called Brushing the Tip of Fame, and in 2006 produced a monologue "The Colour of Panic", which played in Sydney (The Studio, Sydney Opera House) and Oslo (Det Åpne Teater). A portrait of Hope appears in the National Portrait Gallery. Partial filmography Confessor Caressor (1989) Bad Boy Bubby (1993) – Bubby Exile (1994) Little White Lies (1996) Henry Fool (1997) – Father Hawkes The Goddess of 1967 (2000) – Grandpa Scooby-Doo (2002) – Old Man Smithers Paradise Found (2003) – Maurrin Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004) – Christian Van Dyke Who Killed Dr Bogle and Mrs Chandler? (2006) – Geoffrey Chandler Uro (2006) Bitter Flowers (2007) – Warren Donaldson The Prime Minister Is Missing (2008) – William McMahon 3 Acts of Murder (2009) – Harry Manning Redd Inc. (2012) Double Happiness Uranium (2013) Gallipoli (2015) - Walter Braithwaite The Daughter (2015) - Peterson Truth (2015) - Marcel Matley Ash vs Evil Dead (2016) - Professor Raymond Knowby Cleverman (2017) - Dr. Mitchell The School (2018)) - Dr. Peter Masuta Picnic at Hanging Rock (2018) - Colonel Fitzhubert Henry Needs a New Home (short film) (2018) - Henry Moon Rock For Monday (2021) - The Bobbins The Drover's Wife (2021) Limbo (2023) References External links Australia: The Dream is Dead, article written by Hope Interview from July 2004 Hope takes the rap 1958 births Australian male film actors Australian male television actors English emigrants to Australia Living people Male actors from Manchester Male actors from South Australia People from Whyalla 20th-century Australian male actors 21st-century Australian male actors