0/5

From Deadline: Gallipoli to Peter Allen

Joel Jackson, to be seen in Deadline: Gallipoli , has been cast in Seven's Peter Allen bio drama.

2015-01-27_2105Actor Joel Jackson, to be seen as Charles Bean in Foxtel’s upcoming Deadline: Gallipoli series, has now been cast in Seven’s bio Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door.

Also cast in the Shine Australia drama are Rebecca Gibneyas his mother Marion Woolnough, Sigrid Thornton as Judy Garland, Rob Mills as Allen’s early musical partner Bell, Henri Szeps as agent Dee Anthony, Nick Farnell as Dick Woolnough and Sara West as Liza Minnelli.

Jackson told News Corp, “to be given the unique responsibility of playing two legendary Australians, in Charles Bean and Peter Allen, back-to-back all before I’m 24 is incredible.”

To be written by Justin Monjo and Michael Miller, the project will be directed by Shawn Seet.

Leave a Reply