
Acting
Australia
Travis McMahon
Acting
Biography
Travis McMahon – Australian actor, graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1995 with a degree in Performing Arts. No publicly recorded birthplace or birthday. He began his career on stage with the Melbourne Theatre Company in Kid Stakes (1996) and toured internationally with Cloudstreet. His most notable film roles include Darko Moey in Kokoda: 39th Battalion (2006), John Kelly in Cactus (2008), Owen in I Love You Too (2010), Charlie in Swerve (2011), Fergo in Rams (2020), and Bert Johnson in Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020). On television he is best known for Bert Johnson in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012–2015, 29 episodes), Bruno Palmer in Last Man Standing (2005, 22 episodes), Reuben Zeus in Good Guys, Bad Guys (1997–1998, 13 episodes), Jonah Day in Stingers (2001, for which he was nominated for an AFI Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role), Paul Hogan in Howzat! Kerry Packer's War (2012), Ivan Cartwright in Ten Pound Poms (2023, 8 episodes), and Ghillie Jack in High Country (2024).
Feature Films (12)

A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Guinea during World War II.
Kokoda

Written by comedian Peter Helliar, I LOVE YOU TOO stars Brendan Cowell as Jim, a 30-something emotionally stunted man whose inability to declare his love to his girlfriend, Alice, threatens to cost him the best thing he ever had but leads him to befriend a talented dwarf who helps him find the words to get her back.
I Love You Too

A man is kidnapped from his city home in the quiet hours of the night and, the kidnapper, John Kelly, embarks on a journey into the Australian Outback towards the place where his hostage is due for delivery. As time and distance roll by, the strength and endurance of both men will be tested to the very end.
Cactus

Driving cross-country to a job interview, Colin takes a short cut and comes across a fatal road accident. One of the drivers, Jina, is shaken but unhurt; the other has been killed instantly. Beside the dead body is a briefcase full of money, which Colin turns in to the local police. But getting out of town proves a nightmare, as Colin's good deed causes a series of bizarre events to unfold.
Swerve

Based on the story of late 1830's colonial Australia, where an unspeakable crime against First Nations people caused an upheaval between law and order.
Myall Creek: Day of Justice

After freeing a young Bedouin girl from her unjust imprisonment in Jerusalem, an Australian adventuress, together with her devoted police detective friend, begins to unravel a decade-old mystery concerning priceless emeralds, an ancient curse and the disappearance of the girl's mother and massacre of her tribe.
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears

An ex-convict finds his conscience impeding on his ability to focus on his grim new assignment in this gritty, low-budget crime thriller from Australia. Upon release from prison, Julian is the new accountant, and placed him in charge of the Hobby House, a place where lonely gangsters go for a little female companionship. But it all starts to fall apart when Julian witnesses the brutalization of the gang's sexual slaves, and realizes he can't be complicit in such abhorrent behavior.
Hobby Farm

In remote Western Australia, two estranged farmer brothers, Colin and Les, are at war. But when Les' prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal illness, authorities order a purge of every sheep in the valley—so the brothers must work together to reunite their family, save their herd, and bring their community back together.
Rams

An older woman complains about the excessive traffic in a public men's room across the street.
Mrs Craddock's Complaint

M is the most esteemed professional of the many girls at Scarlet's but, even on her birthday, it's business as usual. M's trade is sex, but sex doesn't sell the way it used to; what clients are searching for, paying for, is love.
Birthday

When an ordinary worker discovers a passion for murder, not even the love of his ideal woman can save him.
Roadman

Henrietta and Junior farm a secluded piece of land that has been in Junior's family for generations, but their quiet life is thrown into turmoil when an uninvited stranger shows up at their door with a startling proposal. Will they risk their relationship & personal identity for a chance to survive in a new world?
Foe
Television & Series (10)

When a dark secret from this past threatens to be exposed, unorthodox and brilliant medical examiner, Doctor Daniel Harrow, must use all his forensic skills to keep it buried forever.
Harrow

The true life story of Lindy Chamberlain and her recount of a dingo taking her baby
Through My Eyes

A high-stakes Aussie police drama following the lives of Melbourne’s finest girls and boys in blue – members of a prestigious Tactical Response team.
Rush

Follow the odyssey of three men: their quest to get inside the head of the modern woman, and find out where they went wrong.
Last Man Standing

Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920’s Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit. Leaving a trail of admirers in her wake, our thoroughly modern heroine makes sure she enjoys every moment of her lucky life. Based on author Kerry Greenwood's Phryne Fisher Murder Mystery novels.
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

Halifax f.p. is an Australian television crime series produced by Nine Network from 1994 to 2002. The series stars Rebecca Gibney as Doctor Jane Halifax, a forensic psychiatrist investigating cases involving the mental state of suspects or victims. The series is set in Melbourne. The producers of the film were Beyond Simpson Le Mesurier; Australian Film Finance Corporation and aired on the Nine Network Australia Pty Ltd 21 Episodes of 90 and 102 minutes each were produced, and the series has screened in more than 60 countries. The budget for each episode was an average of $1.3 million. Funding came in part from the Australian Film Finance Corporation and Film Victoria.




