Nathaniel Dean
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Age Range | 35-40, 40-45, 45-50 |
| Ethnicity | Caucasian |
| Skills | Actor |
| Own Studio | Home Studio - with Source connect |
Pick up a stone, hold it in your hand. Squeeze tight and feel the small pleasure given by its rough exterior. Run your bare feet over heavy woollen carpet. Let your fingers travel up and down across the colours of a hand- stitched tapestry.
Each of these examples holds our brain’s attention because imperfections are more interesting. We are drawn closer to see what makes the bumps or crevices or cracks.
Nat Dean’s listenability and his engaging delivery is just like this. He’s not laminex smooth. We are drawn closer to his voice because there’s a little bit of glistening quartz in the stone, an undiscovered colour in the wool and there’s an exciting rise and fall in the hand-stitched stories he narrates.
Nat Dean’s experience covers TV, stage, film and countless elements of voice work. He has been both main attraction and support player. All this work has had his voice working hard. It’s blacksmith hardened and fired to take on roles and rhythms of any script that comes his way. And they certainly have. Advertisers have come to realise men today don’t want to be ‘too smooth’ but an interesting gravel mixture of rough, honest, sensitive and technically connected. That’s why the digital perfection of cameras , cars and compters use Nat because they still want to sound easy to use and ready to be enjoyed in the hands of the less than totally confident.
If you have the words, Nat will bring today’s modern man to your script. It’s his faults that make it flawless.
Actor Bio
Nathaniel Dean graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1999. Since then, Dean has appeared in multiple theatre productions, TV and Film roles globally.
His film credits include Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant, Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale and Walking on Water for which he received the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 2002. In 2004, he was nominated again for the AFI for Somersault. Dean’s other notable film credits include Candy and The Final Winter.
Included in Nathaniel’s numerous television credits are Boy Swallows Universe, Anzac Girls, Puberty Blues, Parer’s War, Bikie Wars, Wild Boys, Underbelly, East West 101, Rain Shadow, All Saints, City Homicide, Killing Time, Satisfaction, Always Greener, Secret City, Wentworth and in 2026 he reprises the role of Nash Mason in High Country Season 1.
Nathaniel began his theatre career at the Sydney Theatre Company in the iconic play The One Day of The Year. In 2013, he played the lead role of William Thornhill in the acclaimed stage production The Secret River, for which he was nominated a Helpmann Award for Best Actor for his outstanding performance. He also reprised this role in two other remounts, touring the country including an outdoor performance at the Adelaide Festival. In 2019, the production had its international debut at the Edinburgh International Arts Festival and The National Theatre in London.
In 2015, Dean performed “Reflections of Gallipoli” marking 100 years of Gallipoli with the world-renowned Australian chamber orchestra, winning the Helpmann award for best concert performance.
He starred as Macbeth in the 2018 production by The Australian Shakespeare Company, reprising the role in 2021. He also performed The Effect for the Melbourne Theatre Company, Gwen in Purgatory and Peribanez at Belvoir Theatre and played Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire for the Perth Festival.
