Born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, Jeremy Kewley made his professional acting debut at the age of 14 in The Devil's Playground (1976). The film, directed by Fred Schepisi, went on to win the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award for Best Film of 1976. While still attending school at Melbourne's prestigious Haileybury College, Kewley was cast in a number of films and television series in Melbourne and eventually moved to Sydney to star in the ill-fated "Arcade" (1980). The highly publicized television series was a massive flop but it gained Kewley a following, and lead to a succession of roles both on stage and on screen - particularly in comedy. Returning to Melbourne, Kewley spent the next decade working regularly not only as an actor, but also as a writer and producer. Through his company Pearly White Productions, he won numerous awards for his television commercials and short films, and, more recently, for his documentaries Funny by George: The George Wallace Story (1999) (TV) and Young Talent Time Tells All (2001) (TV). Kewley spent many years performing on stage in comedy shows (which he also wrote and directed), and gained a reputation as one of Australia's foremost television audience warm-up comedians, particularly on "Young Talent Time" (1971) which he worked on in the 1980s and "The Footy Show" (1994) which he has been with since it began . . . including the high-rating UK special, broadcast live from the Theatre Royal in London during 2001; and the ever popular Grand Final specials, performed in front of a live audience of 10,000 people!In 1994 Kewley was cast as one of the leads in "Janus" (1994), a hard-hitting law and order television series which brought him back into the spotlight as a dramatic actor. This lead to on-going roles in two different Australian television series "Blue Heelers" (1994) and "Stingers" (1998). He continues to appear in both series as a semi-regular character. In 2001 he travelled overseas to appear in two American features Disappearance (2002) (TV) and The Extreme Team (2003).
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