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Craig Dougall McLachlan (born 1 September 1965) is a Gold Logie award winning Australian actor, musician and singer and composer. He has been involved in film, television and music theatre for 25 years. He is best known for appearing in the soap operas ''Neighbours'' and ''Home and Away'' and the BBC One spy drama ''Bugs''. ==Biography== Craig McLachlan first appeared on Australian television in a guest role on ''The Young Doctors''. He was cast as Henry Ramsay, brother of Kylie Minogue's character Charlene, in Channel 10's ''Neighbours''. After appearing in more than 800 episodes and winning the Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television (1990) and Silver Logie, he was contracted to Seven Network's ''Home and Away'' playing schoolteacher Grant Mitchell. A singer, guitarist and songwriter, McLachlan enjoyed international success in a concurrent pop music career. He had hits in Australian and the UK with a remake of the Bo Diddley song "I Need You Baby (Mona)" and with self-penned songs "Amanda", "One Reason Why" and "On My Own". He toured the UK and Europe with his band Check 1-2. In 1993 McLachlan starred as Danny Zuko in the West End revival of the musical ''Grease'' alongside Deborah Gibson and Sonia Evans. In his stage musical career he starred as Frank N Furter in ''The Rocky Horror Show'', Caractacus Potts in ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'', Bob Wallace in ''White Christmas'' and Billy Flynn in ''Chicago''. In the mid-1990s McLachlan starred in three series of the BBC television series ''Bugs'' and appeared in ''Catherine the Great'' alongside Catherine Zeta-Jones and Omar Sharif. Throughout the first decade of the 21st century, McLachlan appeared in around 20 film and television projects, including the American movie ''Superfire'', as Stuart Diver in the film ''Hero's Mountain'', and ''Blackjack'' with Colin Friels. In 2004 he played Michael Chamberlain in ''Through My Eyes'', an account of the Lindy Chamberlain story, and began work in the recurring role of Kane Morgan in ''McLeod's Daughters''. He played Jeff Kennard in the Australian film ''Hating Alison Ashley'', worked alongside Benjamin Bratt and James Franco in ''The Great Raid''. and starred with John Jarratt in ''Savages Crossing'', for which he composed score. McLachlan appeared regularly in the Network Seven TV series ''Packed to the Rafters'' as ageing rocker Steve Wilson and was cast in the fourth season of ''Rescue: Special Ops'' as Hayden Bradley. He played the role of Steve, the handsome gay gardener, in the award-winning production ''At Home With Julia'', and appeared in the ABC comedy ''Lowdown''. In 2011 McLachlan had a guest-starring role in an episode of ''NCIS Los Angeles''. In 2011, British group Rizzle Kicks sampled McLachlan's version of 'Mona' for their single "Mama Do the Hump", which charted at number two. McLachlan returned to Australia in 2012 to work on a then new TV series, ''The Doctor Blake Mysteries'', a period crime drama set in Ballarat in 1959–60. He plays the title role, Dr Lucien Blake, a medical practitioner with a knack for solving murders and annoying the police. The first two seasons originally screened on ABC Television in 2013 and 2014. In 2013, McLachlan was again cast as Frank N Furter in a revival of ''The Rocky Horror Show'' touring Australia in 2014. In December 2014, McLachlan revealed that he was unable to return to ''Neighbours'' for the show's 30th anniversary celebrations due to scheduling conflicts and his involvement in ''The Doctor Blake Mysteries''. However, McLachlan agreed to take part in the documentary special ''Neighbours 30th: The Stars Reunite'', which aired in Australia and the UK in March 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Craig McLachlan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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