Peter Phelps

Infobox Actor

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name =Peter Phelps
birthdate =birth date and age|1960|09|20
location = flagicon|Australia Sydney, Australia
parents = George Phelps & Shirley Phelps
spouse = Donna Fowkes (2000-)
children = Aja Blue Phelps (b.2002)
Polly Elsie Rose Phelps (b.2005)
notable roles = Peter Church in "Stingers"
afiawards = Best Actor in a Television Drama
1993"

Peter Phelps (born September 20, 1960 in Sydney) is an Australian actor of English & Scandinavian descent. He is notable for his role of Peter Church in the television drama, "Stingers". He is the brother of Professor Kerryn Phelps.

Phelps began his acting career in the early 1980s with an on-going role in the Network Ten teen soap opera "The Restless Years" produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation. After that series ended he had a starring role in new Grundy soap opera "Sons and Daughters". In the early 1990s, he was one of the lifeguards (Trevor Cole) in the first series of "Baywatch", and had a very minor role in the film "Point Break". He also had roles in "A Country Practice" and "The Flying Doctors". In 1993, Phelps won an Australian Film Institute Best Actor award for his role in the GP episode, Exposed. [Australian Film Institute, Past Winners, Television 1986-2006 [http://www.afi.org.au/] ]

Phelps also plays a recurring role as doctor Doug "Spence" Spencer on the medical drama, "All Saints" starting October 4, 2005.

References

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0679832/ Peter Phelps] at the Internet Movie Database
* [http://colsearch.nfsa.afc.gov.au/nfsa/search/summary/summary.w3p;adv=yes;group=;groupequals=;page=0;parentid=;query=Person%3A%22%2FPerson%2Fkey%2F21560-1%22;querytype=;resCount=10 Peter Phelps at the National Film and Sound Archive]