| Began career as a child actor in Australian theater |
| Toured Australia, as Danny Zuko, in the stage musical "Grease" |
1971 | Moved to Australia with family at age three |
1984 | Won the Junior Mr. Victoria bodybuilding competition at age 16 |
1985 | Played student-turned-teacher Mike Young in the Australian TV serial "Neighbours" |
1988 | Made feature debut in "Heaven Tonight" playing a rock musician |
1989 | Portrayed a young Errol Flynn in "Flynn/My Forgotten Man" (released theatrically in 1997) |
1991 | Landed recurring role on the Australian soap opera "Home and Away" |
1993 | Debuted as a series regular on "Snowy River: The McGregor Saga" (aired in the U.S. on The Family Channel) |
1994 | Landed breakthrough role as a drag queen in "The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" |
1997 | Made U.S. film debut, co-starring with Kevin Spacey and Russell Crowe as Los Angeles policemen in the Oscar-nominated "L.A. Confidential" |
1999 | Co-starred with Robert Carlyle in "Ravenous," directed by Antonia Bird |
1999 | Starred opposite Lili Taylor in "A Slipping Down Life"; premiered at Sundance Film Festival |
2000 | Offered a terrific turn as a man suffering with short-term memory loss in Christopher Nolan's "Memento" |
2000 | Played a Marine prosecutor in the military drama "Rules of Engagement" |
2000 | Returned to the stage in a Melbourne production of "Face to Face" |
2002 | Acted opposite Helena Bonham Carter in the supernatural thriller "Till Human Voices Wake Us" |
2002 | Co-starred with James Caviezel in "The Count of Monte Cristo" |
2002 | Played Chance Wayne in an Australian stage production of "Sweet Bird of Youth" |
2002 | Played the lead in a remake of "The Time Machine"; directed by Simon Wells, the great-grandson of H G Wells (whose novel the film was based) |
2004 | Starred in the family adventure film "Two Brothers" |
2006 | Portrayed pop artist Andy Warhol in "Factory Girl" |
2006 | Starred in "The Proposition," an Australian western written by musician Nick Cave |
2007 | Played a smooth-talking salesman in the thriller "First Snow" |
2008 | Co-starred in the Iraq war thriller "The Hurt Locker" |
2008 | Portrayed magician Harry Houdini in "Death Defying Acts" |
2009 | Cast in the feature adaptation of Joe Penhall's novel "The Road" |
2010 | Portrayed King Edward VIII in "The King's Speech" |
2011 | Nominated for the 2011 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Miniseries Or A Movie |
2011 | Played the role of Monty Beragon opposite Kate Winslet in HBO's five-part miniseries "Mildred Pierce" |
2012 | Co-starred with Maggie Grace in the action thriller "Lockout" |
2012 | Co-starred with Shia LaBeouf and Tom Hardy in Prohibition-era Western "Lawless" |
2012 | Played the multibillionaire founder and CEO of Weyland Corp. in "Prometheus," directed by Ridley Scott |
