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Nathan Page
Australian actor (born 1971)
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Nathan Page | |
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| Born | Australia |
| Occupation(s) | Actor, voice actor |
| Spouse | Sarah-Jayne Howard |
| Children | 2 |
Nathan Page is an Australian actor. He is best known for his commercial voice-over work and his role as Detective Inspector Jack Robinson in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries.
Early life and education
[edit]Nathan Page grew up in an Air Force family and moved around Australia frequently as a child.[1]
Cycling
[edit]A former cyclist, Page attended the Australian Institute of Sport[2] with Stuart O'Grady and competed in Europe with Lance Armstrong.[3][4] He retired from professional cycling at the age of 19 due to various injuries and his inability to remain competitive in Europe without performance-enhancing drugs.[5] He recalled "It was an era that was plagued by drugs, and it was very hard to see your way through to a long career... because I stayed clean, you could beat them some of the time, but not all of the time."[3]
Describing his decision to take up acting after ending his cycling caree
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Australian actor and former elite cyclist Nathan Page, best known internationally for his nuanced portrayal of Detective Inspector Jack Robinson in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012), was born into an air force family in Perth on 25 August 1971. He moved frequently around the country while growing up and went to school predominantly in Canberra and Melbourne.
Page started cycling at the age of 14 in Canberra "as a random new thing to try". He subsequently raced up through the ranks to the state level in NSW and began to compete at the national level within the year. He had the attention of the Australian Institute of Sport by the time he was 16, at which time he moved to Adelaide with a scholarship. His international career in individual and team pursuit took off immediately: He left for Europe for an initial tour of three months with the trips becoming longer as he grew older. He retired from the sport at 19 because of a combination of numerous injuries and the now commonly known drug culture in the sport.
Page channeled the toughness and discipline acquired as an athlete into acting, starting with a Tuesday night drama class and going on to study at the Centre for Performing Arts (now Adelaide College of the Arts) for three years. His early roles were on