Simon Baker
Actor
Biography
Simon Baker (born 30 July 1969, height 5' 9¾" (1,77 m)) 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.
As Director
Filmography
The Devil Wears Prada
as Christian Thompson 2006
L.A. Confidential
as Matt Reynolds 1997
The Ring Two
as Max Rourke 2005
Margin Call
as Jared Cohen 2011
Land of the Dead
as Riley 2005
Red Planet
as Chip Pettengill 2000
I Give It a Year
as Guy 2013
The Killer Inside Me
as Howard Hendricks 2010
Sex and Death 101
as Roderick Blank 2007
Something New
as Brian Kelly 2006
Ride with the Devil
as George Clyde 1999
The Lodger
as Malcolm 2009
Women in Trouble
as Travis McPherson 2009
Most Wanted
as Stephen Barnes 1997
Not Forgotten
as Jack Bishop 2009
The Affair of the Necklace
as Rétaux de Vilette 2001
Breath
as Sando 2017