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Teo Gebert
Australian actor (born 1974) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Teo Gebert (born 2 September 1974[citation needed]) is an Australian actor who has appeared in numerous film, television and theatre roles, best known as a regular presenter of Play School.
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Early life
Gebert grew up in a creative family with a theatrical background: "...my father is a musician, my mother an actor, my uncle an actor, my grandfather ran theatres, and my grandmother had dreams of being a ballerina when she was a little girl."[1] His mother Helen Livermore is Reg Livermore's sister and his father, Bobby is a jazz musician.[2]
After graduating from high school, Gebert trained as an actor at Sydney's Ensemble Theatre under Hayes Gordon, The Atlantic Theatre Company in New York and the Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP).[3]
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Theatre
Gebert made his stage debut in Reg Livermore's musical Big Sister in 1990.[4][5]
Film
Gebert made his film debut in 1992 Australian erotic thriller Fatal Bond alongside Linda Blair and appeared in the 1993 American action film Sniper opposite Tom Berenger.
He played lead roles in the Australian indie films Square One (1997) and The Venus Factory and played support in the drama The Boys. In 1998 he began collaborating with director Paul Middleditch, playing a Nazi in the 1998 film Terra Nova, and in 2001 they wrote and collaborated on the arthouse film A Cold Summer.
Gebert has also appeared in Under the Radar (2004), Safety in Numbers and starred as Elmo in the 2008 gangster comedy Crooked Business. He played a demented prison guard in the 2017 film Emporium.[6]
Television
In 2000, Gebert played the regular role of Skeez Goivanelli in 35 episodes of Above the Law. He played the recurring roles of Laurie Prendergast in Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities (the 2009 second season of the crime drama series Underbelly), and Dr Daniel Lovallo on long-running soap opera Home and Away in 2010.
He has also made numerous guest appearances in series such as Family and Friends, G.P., The Feds, Murder Call, Wildside, Stingers, Farscape, Love Bytes, Two Twisted, and The Cut.
He has also been a regular presenter for over twenty years on the long-running childrens' series Play School since 2004, and in 2012 appeared in a spin-off show called Little Ted's Big Adventures. He has appeared in two seasons of the comedy web series Avalon Now.[7][8]
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Personal life
At the age of 26, Gebert had a daughter, Lily-Rose, with his then-partner. She died at just four days old, due to suffering breathing difficulties during birth. He spoke about the tragedy, while serving as an ambassador for Red Nose Day, a fundraising event that helps reduce infant deaths and support grieving families.[9]
In 2017, Gebert was living in Bondi together with his partner Jane Wallace, daughter Harriet, and two sons, Roy and Charlie.[10]
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