Shane Connor
Shane Connor, born 3 April 1959 in Woodville, South Australia, is an Australian actor who trained at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne. He has worked in stage, television, and film in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and is best known for his long-running role as Joe Scully on Neighbours, which began in 1999.
Connor has appeared in many other TV shows and productions, including Fire, Heartland, The Harp in the South, Poor Man's Orange, Halifax f.p., and the Moby Dick miniseries (as Flask). He also played Kevin in Prisoner, later returning as the biker Bongo Connors in its continuation Wentworth, and he had a brief role as Angel in Sons and Daughters. He has worked in UK pantomime and appeared in The Salon, Killing Time, and House Husbands, with later TV work on Wentworth (2018) and The Twelve (2022).
He has won the Penguin Award for Best Actor (1984) and the Green Room Award for Outstanding Fringe Performer (1995), and he was nominated for an AFI Award in 1998 for Halifax f.p. In 2003, he was fired from Neighbours after on-set issues related to an amphetamine habit; he sued Grundy Television for wrongful termination and was awarded around $230,000 in damages.
Connor has been married twice, first to Karen Connor (1987–1992) and then to Nell Feeney (1994–1997). He and Feeney had twins in 1995 and he also has another daughter.
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