Hugh Baldwin is an Australian actor. For his performance in Heartbreak High he was nominated for the 1994 AFI Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama.[1]

Hugh Baldwin
OccupationActor
Notable workHeartbreak High

Baldwin trained with NIDA, appearing in the 1992 graduating class production titled Images of Moliere.[2] Later stage productions he featured in were Then the Mountain Comes (Australian Museum, 1994)[3][4][5] and The Malevolence.[6]

On TV Baldwin featured on Heartbreak High on Network Ten in 1994. He played an gay music teacher who in one episode is falsely accused of sexual abuse.[7] For that episode he was nominated for an AFI Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama. He later starred in Children's Hospital on the ABC.[8]

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  1. ^ "AFI | AACTA | Winners & Nominees | 1990-1999 | 1994". www.aacta.org. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
  2. ^ Evans, Bob (3 October 1992), "Students show style, but not much passion", The Sydney Morning Herald
  3. ^ Evans, Bob (10 November 1994), "Volcanic dust and soap", The Sydney Morning Herald
  4. ^ Payne, Pamela (20 November 1994), "Theatre in the museum", The Sydney Morning Herald
  5. ^ Then the Mountain Comes, AusStage
  6. ^ The Malevolence, AusStage
  7. ^ Hawker, Phillipa (1 June 1994), "It's testing times at 'Heartbreak High'", The Age
  8. ^ Date, Margot (7 December 1997), "medical magic", The Sydney Morning Herald
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