Acclaimed Australian actor, star of Cop Shop and Underbelly, dies aged 67

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Australian actor Nicholas Eadie, who won an Australian Film Institute award for his role in the 1987 miniseries Vietnam opposite Nicole Kidman, has died in Sydney.

The 67-year-old’s death was announced on Facebook yesterday by fellow actor Will Conyers, who wrote, “I send my deepest sympathy to all those that were touched by this very special artist and human being.”

Australian actor Nicholas Eadie, pictured in 2005, has died, aged 67. Credit: Getty Images

Conyers added: “I am paralysed. He welcomed me to my time in Sydney in the ’80s. Such a generous soul.”

Eadie, a NIDA graduate, was well known for his roles in the TV shows Cop Shop, The Henderson Kids, in which he starred as Uncle Mike, A Country Practice and Medivac. He also starred opposite Sigrid Thornton in the film The Man from Snowy River II.

Alison Whyte, who worked with Eadie at Melbourne’s Malthouse theatre company, wrote on X, “Devastated – such a beautiful human”, while Geraldine Turner, who starred opposite Eadie in a production of Don’s Party, wrote: “No no no … love him”.

Theatre producer Michelle Guthrie said it was “incredibly sad”, while former arts editor of The Sydney Morning Herald Bryce Hallett wrote, “I really can’t believe he is gone. Such a talent … and such a gorgeous fun-loving soul”.

Nicole Kidman (Megan), Nicholas Eadie (Phil), Veronica Lang (Evelyn) and Barry Otto (Douglas) in the 1987 miniseries Vietnam.

Nicole Kidman (Megan), Nicholas Eadie (Phil), Veronica Lang (Evelyn) and Barry Otto (Douglas) in the 1987 miniseries Vietnam.

In the Kennedy-Miller miniseries Vietnam, then 27-year-old Eadie played Phil Goddard, who was conscripted to fight in the war and became traumatised after his unit was ordered to destroy a South Vietnamese peasant village. Eadie also won a Logie Award for most popular actor in a single drama miniseries, while the miniseries was named most popular.

Eadie was again nominated for an AFI Award for his roles in the 1988 film Fragments of War, in which he played Oscar-winning World War II photographer and cinematographer Damien Parer, and for a 2002 episode of Nine drama Halifax f.p. His final screen role was in 2011 when he starred in Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away.

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