Brendan Cowell plays Mick Scoresby in Avatar: The Way Of Water. Brendan plays the captain of a broad marine hunting vessel in the sequel of the epic science fiction Avatar.
The Australian actor is also a director and an award-winning writer. He received Australia's most treasured playwright award, the Patrick White Playwrights award, in 2001 for his play Bed and won the Griffin Playwright award for most outstanding new work in 2003.
Before landing in Avatar, the actor was the main lead on Fox Showcase's TV mini-series The Twelve. Cowell appeared as Garry Thorne in the crime thriller, starring alongside Kate Mulvany, Pallavi Sharda, and Brooke Satchwell.
Brendan Cowell From Avatar is Australian
Brendan Cowell is an Australian actor from avatar- one of the most anticipated movies of 2022. Brendan grew up in the beachside suburb of Cronulla.
The 46 years old was born to parents Yvonne (mother) and Bruce Cowell(father) on August 16, 1976. Raised alongside his two older sisters, who were both dancers and singers, he was encouraged to perform and create his shows with his sisters early on.
The Aussie actor was only eight years old when he landed in a TV commercial while waiting for one of his sisters to be done with her dance rehearsals.
After that, he started working in TV drama during his teen years upon receiving motivation from his mother and his high school teacher to explore his creative side and has also credited them in the past.
He furthered his creative side by pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication, Theatre, and Media from Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, in 1998. Only a year later, the actor was already working in films such as Kick and Monster.
It was in the 1990s that he began writing his plays, which remain to be highly successful. One of his most famous plays Ruben Guthrie shown at the Belvoir St Theatre, was a whole house in 2009.
Further on, he became a director for the film adaptation of the same play, which opened at the Sydney film festival and played a year later at the London BFI.
Playing Tom in the widely acclaimed Australian cable TV's Love My Way brought him fame in the television scene, and he wrote a few episodes for the show. Also, he starred and wrote for the SBS TV satire 'Life Support,' playing Tod the Toolman.
Brendan Is Mick Scoresby In Avatar
Avatar: The Way of Water, early audiences must have noticed Brendan in the latest movie. How? The Aussie actor is the one to play Mick Scoresby in the epic sci-fi.
A sequel to the 2009 movie Avatar, one of the highest-grossing movies of all time, is directed by James Cameron from the screenplay he co-wrote with Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, along with Josh Friedman and Shane Salerno, with whom the trio wrote the story.
While the original cast for the film, including Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Stephen Lang, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Giovanni Ribisi, Dileep Rao, and Matt Gerald, reprise their role for the sequel, it also includes new cast members.
On March 28, 2019, Avatar's official Facebook page announced that Aussie actor, Cowell, had been cast in the Avatar sequels, welcoming him into the Avatar family. He was roped in for the role of Mick Scoresby, a captain of a large-scale marine hunting vessel on Pandora.
The movie follows Jake Sully living with his family in Pandora and exploring the oceans of the extrasolar moon to meet the Metkayina clan. The additional cast for the sequel is Kate Winslet, Cliff Curtis, Edie Falco, and Jemaine Clement.
A Lightstorm Entertainment and TSG Entertainment, the sequel, is the second movie in the Avatar franchise. Originally aimed to release in 2014, after two sequels were announced in 2010 post the first film's massive success, the movie got delayed for over a decade.
The sci-fi movie finally hit the theatres on December 6 in the UK and December 16 in the US after much awaited.
Facts on Brendan Cowell
- Brendan is a 46-year-old actor originally from Sydney, NSW, Australia, who later moved to the UK.
- The actor starred in HBO's Game of Thrones in 2017 as an Ironborn sea captain allied to Theon Greyjoy, Harrag.
- Cowell received a prized memento, a Māori patu, from the director James Cameron, from his time working in Cameron's sci-fi Avatar: The Way of Water.
- The Aussie actor has a wooden block that he's had since he was seven, given by his nan Ettie Claire, and wrote Cowell’s Block” on it. He also has an aqua crochet blanket from when he was five.
- He owns the Cleto Reyes red 16 oz boxing gloves, a Mexican Craftmanship made from goatskin leather, bought in London while training at Clay O’Shea’s boxing gym in Westbourne Park.
- Cowell lost his most prized possession, a Mike Caballero deck, a skateboard with Indy trucks, and Cockroach wheels when he was 14. he even slept with it at night.
- He wrote poems daily on a Moleskine while backpacking for three months in 2001 but lost it on Eurostar between Barcelona and Berlin.
