ANTHONY PHELAN

Before Anthony Phelan was selected to play a global director in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Casting Director Robin Gurland was looking to fill his spot for a long time. "I was looking and looking and looking," she said, "until I saw Anthony play Creon in Seneca's Oedipus for the Sydney Theatre Company. I saw him on Wednesday, met with him on Friday and he began shooting on Tuesday." Along with dozens of theatrical productions, Phelan played the role of Ken Smith on television's Home & Away and appeared in Babe: Pig in the City, Heaven's Burning and the lead role in Great Falls.

He is an extremely versatile actor with a wealth of theatrical experience, having appeared in over 70 plays. Phelan is no stranger to the classics, having performed in Coriolanus, Antony & Cleopatra, Troilus & Cressida and The Taming of the Shrew, or contemporary theatre as recent roles in The Life of Galileo, Blackrock, Top Silk, The Removalists and Summer of the Seventeenth Doll testify.

He has also worked with some of Australia's most renowned theatre companies. Productions have included The Mikdado, Trartuffe, Private Lives, The Ventian Twins, A Christmas Carol, The Shaughraun, The Game of Love & Chance, The Barrets of Wimpole Street, A Month in the Country and Paris, for which he received the Matilda Award for Excellence in Performance from the Brisbane Theatre Critics' Association for his role as Letrec.