Name: | Philip Quast |
Occupation: | Actor |
Gender: | Male |
Height: | 188 cm (6′ 3”) |
Birth Day: | July 30, 1957 |
Age: | 63 |
Birth Place: | Australia, Not Known |
Zodiac Sign: | Leo |
Philip Quast
Family Members
# | Name | Relationship | Net Worth | Salary | Age | Occupation |
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#1 | Harry Quast | Children | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
#2 | Edwin Quast | Children | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
#3 | Toby Quast | Children | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
#4 | Carol Quast | Spouse | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Physique
Height | Weight | Hair Colour | Eye Colour | Blood Type | Tattoo(s) |
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188 cm (6′ 3”) | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Biography
Biography Timeline
Quast, one of three children, was born in 1957 in Tamworth, New South Wales. His family lived and worked on a mixed but predominantly turkey farm.
He graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1979 and began his career in the resident acting company of the State Theatre Company of South Australia. In the early 1980s he appeared in plays such as The Mystery Plays of Wakefield, Three Sisters, On The Wallaby, Pericles, A Month in the Country, As You Like It, Pygmalion, A Hard God, No End of Blame, The Threepenny Opera, Shark Infested Waters, Candide with Nimrod Theatre Company, and a musical adaption of Carmen which he debuted with the Melbourne Theatre Company.
In 1981, Philip also began appearing as a presenter on the Australian children’s show Play School, a program he would return to on-and-off again for 17 years. He shot to prominence in 1987 when he appeared as Javert in the original Australian production of Les Misérables. This performance won him a Sydney Critic Award and a MO Award. In 1989, he traveled to London to play Javert on the West End stage.
Quast married Carol in 1981 and they were married for almost ten years before having the first of their three sons. He has been noted for his humble nature, stating he doesn’t seek after fame and is concerned that success is measured by notoriety instead of the respect of one’s peers. He doesn’t keep any of his awards, instead sending them to his parents’ home in Australia.
In 1991 he won his first Laurence Olivier Award for Georges Seurat. Quast was under a large amount of stress when preparing for Sunday in the Park with George, as he struggled to master Sondheim’s complicated musical scores (Sondheim told him: “you don’t play tennis against people you can beat.”), learn to paint and sketch for the play, and waited for the impending birth of his first son, who was due five days after opening night.
In 1993 he returned to Australia to play in Sydney Theatre Company productions of William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus and Sondheim’s Into the Woods, in which he played The Wolf/Cinderella’s Prince. He then played Dunois in Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan in the West End and on a UK tour in 1994. In 1994–96 he spent two seasons with the Royal Shakespeare Company, performing as Fred/Chorus in A Christmas Carol, and King of Navarre in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost, as well as Lodovico in The White Devil, Banquo in Macbeth, and Achilles in Troilus and Cressida. Before returning for a second season with the RSC, he spent some time back in Australia, performing in the national tour of The Secret Garden as Dr. Neville Craven – along with Anthony Warlow and Marina Prior.
In 2003, he appeared as Antonio in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, directed by Gale Edwards and as Trigorin in Chekhov’s The Seagull, directed by Steven Pimlott, both at the Chichester Festival Theatre. In 2012, he played the role of Sir Humphrey Appleby in an Australian production of Yes, Prime Minister. In August/September 2012, he performed the role of Walter Burns in Melbourne Theatre Company’s production of His Girl Friday. In November 2013 he joined Hugo Weaving and Richard Roxburgh in Sydney Theatre Company’s production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For Godot. In May/June 2014, Quast played the role of Pastor Manders in Henrik Ibsen’s play Ghosts at the Melbourne Theatre Company directed by Gale Edwards.
Quast more recently played the supporting role of Juan Peron in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 2006 production of Evita at the Adelphi Theatre in London. He was nominated for an Olivier award for this role. In July 2007, Quast performed the role of Judge Turpin in a concert version of Sweeney Todd at London’s Royal Festival Hall.
Quast rejoined the cast of La Cage on 4 May 2009 with Roger Allam. Coincidentally, both actors have performed in the role of Javert in Les Misérables. From July 2010, he played Mr Banks in the Australian premiere production of Mary Poppins at Melbourne’s Her Majesty’s Theatre, a part Cameron Mackintosh offered to him in the bathroom of The Ivy in London. He won the 2010 Victorian Green Room Award (Melbourne’s top theatre awards) for Best Supporting Actor in a Musical for his performance. He also won the 2011 Helpmann award for “Best Featured Actor in a Musical” for Mary Poppins.
In March 2014, New York audiences were treated to a special limited engagement of Sweeney Todd at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall. Quast, in his New York stage debut, performed as Judge Turpin, with Bryn Terfel as Sweeney Todd and Emma Thompson as Mrs. Lovett. The show was scheduled to be broadcast as part of Live at Lincoln Center’s television special in September 2014.
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