Josh Quong Tart (born 18 September 1975) is an Australian actor.

Josh Quong Tart
Born (1975-09-18) 18 September 1975 (age 49)[1]
OccupationActor
Years active1992–present

Early life

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Tart attended the McDonald College[2] before he was accepted into National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1994, graduating in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in Performing Arts.[citation needed] He is a descendant of prominent Chinese Australian Mei Quong Tart, who ran a popular tea house in the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney, and was also an early Chinese ambassador to Australia. He is the youngest of four boys in his family.[citation needed]

Career

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Tart's list of television credits includes the role of Will Monk on headLand, a drama series airing on the Seven Network and Matt Horner on the Australian award-winning series All Saints. Josh was also an original co-host on the kids TV show Sarvo with Jamie Croft on Foxtel's Nickelodeon.

Quong Tart featured alongside actress Genevieve Lemon and brother Byron Tart in the stage show, Lemon Tart in 2006 and 2007. Tart joined the cast of Home and Away in 2007 as Miles "Milco" Copeland.[3] In October 2011, Tart announced he was departing Home and Away after nearly four years.[4]

In 2012, Tart joined the cast of Underbelly: Badness as Andrew Perish.[5]

In August 2013, it was announced that Tart would play Scar in the 2013–16 Australian production of Disney's The Lion King (nicknamed the Antelope Tour), premiering in Sydney at The Capitol Theatre in December 2013.[6] The show also played in Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth and closed in January 2016.

Tart starred in Betty Blokk-Buster Reimagined during the 2020 Sydney Festival. Sydney Morning Herald critic, Harriet Cunningham, called his performance "simply extraordinary" and "a revelation".[7]

Filmography

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Film
Year Title Role Notes
2003 Syntax Error Desmond Short film
2010 Shock Shitstick Short film; also associate producer, co-producer
2012 Prick Short film; producer only
2013 Around the Block Barry Griffen Feature film
2014 Notes Gerrard Short film
2015 Bronzer Lucien Joplin-Stutt Short film
2016 Scare Campaign Rohan Feature film
2016 Down Under Video Porn Star 2 / Police Officer Feature film
2018 Love and Other Places Josh / Jacinta Short film
2019 Little Monsters Echidna Man Feature film
2019 Dark Place Doctor Feature film; segment: "Foe"
2023 Late Night with the Devil Leo Fiske Feature film
202? Ugly Carter Ian
Television
Year Title Role Notes
1992 Home and Away Kevin Season 5 (guest; 1 episode)
1992 The Leaving of Liverpool Thug Miniseries
1993 Home and Away Pool Shark Season 6 (guest; 1 episode)
1998 Wildside Tom Season 1 (guest; #1.18)
1999 All Saints Vincent Sterling Season 2 (guest; #2.27)
1999 Chameleon II: Death Match Connor TV movie
2001 Water Rats Yo Season 6 (guest; #6.18)
2001–04 All Saints Matt Horner Seasons 4–5 (recurring; 45 episodes),
Season 6 (main; 23 episodes), Season 7 (guest; 1 episode)
2001 Young Lions Dr. Martin Season 1 (guest; #1.1)
2004 Mcleod's Daughters Grant Meldrum Season 4 (guest; #4.27)
2005 Flipper & Lopaka Voice Season 1 (guest; #1.20)
2005–06 headLand Will Monk Seasons 1–2 (main; 58 episodes)
2007–11 Home and Away Miles Copeland Seasons 20–24 (main; 741 episodes)
2008–09 Master Raindrop Flamo (main; 26 episodes)
2012 The Great Mint Swindle Brian Mickelberg TV movie
2012 Underbelly Andrew "Undies" Perish Season 5 – "Underbelly: Badness" (main; 8 episodes)
2014 Rake Det Sando Season 3 (guest; #3.8)
2016 Hyde & Seek Dale Season 1 (guest; #1.3)
2016 Fancy Boy President Ryan Season 1 (guest; #1.2)
2018 Riot Ron Austin TV movie
2018 Mr Inbetween Luke Henson Season 1 (guest; #1.2)
2020 Reckoning Dr. Hartman Season 1 (guest; #1.8 & #1.10)
2020–21 Rosehaven Donovan Seasons 4–5 (recurring; current role)
2021 Born to Spy Tradie 1 episode
2022 Wolf Like Me Homeless Man 1 episode
The Twelve Harmon 1 episode
2024 Last Days of the Space Age Gary Cullis 4 episodes
Plum Larry 1 episode

References

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  1. ^ "Josh Quong Tart". Yahoo!7. Archived from the original on 20 July 2008. Retrieved 27 August 2011.
  2. ^ "Student Prospectus". McDonald College. Archived from the original on 30 September 2009. Retrieved 13 April 2010.
  3. ^ Idato, Michael (14 December 2007). "Kate departs the bay for new horizons". The Sydney Morning Herald. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
  4. ^ Davies, Rebecca (17 October 2011). "'Home and Away's Josh Quong Tart confirms departure from show". Digital Spy. Hearst Magazines UK. Retrieved 17 October 2011.
  5. ^ "Who's who in Badness". TV Week (32). ACP Magazines: 21. 11–17 August 2012.
  6. ^ Lion King The Musical Archived 27 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Cunningham, Harriet (12 January 2020). "Simply extraordinary: Josh Quong Tart dazzles in reimagining of 70s blockbuster". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 5 February 2020.
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