Welcome to this Fansite of Brett Tucker
First of all, I am NOT Brett Tucker. I'm Michelle, 20 years old and I'm from the Netherlands.
This is just a fansite dedicated to this brilliant actor! Brett 'Boonge' Tucker played funny, cheeky, smiling, loving and caring vet 'Dave Brewer' in the Australian hitserie Mcleod's Daughters from 2003 till 2006.
Brett can now be seen on Neighbours as Daniel Fitzgerald.
Behind the scenes with Brett Tucker and Scott Major
Biography
Brett Alan Tucker was born on May 21st, 1972 in Melbourne, Australia. Brett is an Australian actor and singer (he recorded 2 songs). He is the son of Ken and Janice Tucker and he grew up in the Yarra Valley of Victoria with his three siblings Nicky, Mark and David. It was there where he developed his love and appreciation for the country. Brett attended Melbourne's National Theater Drama School and made his acting debut in a 1994 episode of Snowy River: The McGregor Saga.
Get off your horse for a minute and in-between The Saddle Club Series 1 and 2, you find yourself working with the likes of Benjamin Bratt, Naomi Watts, Clarence Williams 111 and Josef Fiannes. Brett Tucker hasn't been slothful since the first series wrapped. He has been working on a swag of American productions, television, films and TV movies, filmed both in America and in Australia.
Brett has worked on The Great Raid (starring Benjamin Bratt) filmed in Queensland and did the film The Outsider (directed by Randa Haines and starring Naomi Watts). He has knocked back a starring role on the American soap Days of Our Lives. "It would have been a good financial move for me but it meant 49 weeks inside a studio each year for three years. Also, I had started to get good roles in movies and, at that stage, I didn't need the stepping stone. And I knew I couldn't do it; I would get too homesick for Australia," he explains.
Actually, this 6 ft 2" Aussie bloke from the country moved to Los Angeles for his career but he didn't find it easy. "I had to do it in stages; otherwise it would have been too much of a culture shock. I have always been a country person and I even found it hard to move from Yarra Valley to Melbourne. When I first went to L.A. I found it as hard. So I have been back and forth about four times now for auditions, meetings and work. And I am now more accustomed to it," he explains.
Strangely enough, Brett has found that it is easier for him to be cast in American films than Australian. "I think part of it is the way I look. I fit in more with the all-American type than I do with that quirkier look that Australian directors seem to like. And after working hard at it for three years, I have mastered the American accent and now when I go into an audition in the U.S, they have no idea I'm Australian," he says.
Brett's experience includes Mall Boy, which received critical acclaim at the Cannes Film Festival, television roles in the U.S. series The Lost World, The Extreme Team (U.S. telemovie), Rubicon (U.S. telemovie), Blonde (U.S. mini-series) and the Australian series McLeod's Daughters, Blue Heelers, Halifax f.p. and Neighbours.
Growing up in the Yarra Valley, Brett is a great horse-rider and loved the opportunity the role of Max Regnery gave him to ride. "Even when I had finished my scenes, I liked to go and watch the wranglers working with those beautiful horses in the series," he says. An accomplished sportsman, he is a cyclist, plays tennis, cricket, basketball, boxes, has taken up snow-boarding and was a better than average footballer until he broke his nose in the third quarter of a spirited game the day before he was to audition for an important part. That sport was then put on the back burner.
Brett is now very much in demand both here and overseas, but can't really point to one big break. "I reckon I epitomize a gradual process in this industry. There wasn't one big thing that happened; it's all been small steps," he tells us.
Recent roles
Brett is best known for playing vet Dave Brewer from 2003 till 2006 on the Australian drama McLeod's Daughters. He apprenticed with a real country veterinarian to research his role. He has returned to Neighbours in late 2007 as a regular, playing the role of Daniel Fitzgerald, whom he played from 1999-2000.
Brett's filmopgraphy:
1994 - Snowy River: The McGregor Saga - as Ted (guestrole)
1995 - Neighbours - as a Construction Worker (guestrole)
1997 - The Last of the Ryans - as a Detective
1997 - The Great Gatsby - as Jay Gastby
1998 - State Coroner - as Miles Penfold (guestrole)
1999 - Thunderstone - as Holocop (guestrole)
2000 - Halifax f.p: The Spider and the Fly - as Scott Lovejoy
2001 - The Saddle Club - as Max Regnery
2001 - Code Red
2001 - Mallboy - as Darren
2001 - Blonde - as Actor at White Party
2001 - Abschied in den Tod - as Mark Penhalligan
2002 - The Lost World - as Rixxel(Guestrole)
2002 - Worst Best Friends - as Mr. Collins (guestrole)
2002 - The Outsider - as Ben Yoder
2002 - Blue Heelers - as Sgt. Peter Baynes (guestrole)
2003 - The Extreme Team
2003 - Blue Heelers - as Sgt. Peter Baynes (guestrole)
2003 - Mcleod's Daughters - as Dave Brewer (till 2006)
2005 - The Great Raid - as Major Lapham
2006 - The Woman In Black
2007 - Neighbours - as Daniel Fitzgerald
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