Luke Ford
ALL ABOUT LUKE FORD
Full Name: Luke Ford
Date of Birth: 1981
Place of Birth: Australia
Bio:
Like Cliff Robertson (Charly) and Leonardo DiCaprio (What’s Eating Gilbert Grape) before him, Australian actor Luke Ford first achieved substantial recognition and critical acclaim playing a mentally impaired character: that of Charlie, a young man saddled with autism and ADHD, in Elissa Down’s sensitively handled drama The Black Balloon (2008). Ford clearly weighed the role with considerable seriousness and professionalis; in preparing for it, he made several trips through public places, such as shopping malls, and engaged in deeply autistic behavior to evaluate the reactions of unsuspecting passersby. Balloon scarcely constituted Ford’s first role (several had preceded it, including a turn as Iphicles in the 2005 American miniseries Hercules), but it did mark one of his first leads. He followed it up by doing an about-face and embarking on a much different cinematic excursion: a role in the mega-budgeted Hollywood adventure The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008), opposite Brendan Fraser and Jet Li.
Trivia:
Signed on to star in the third installment of the Mummy series, THE MUMMY: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR opposite Brendan Fraser and Maria Bello in 2007. In the film, he plays Alex O’Connell, son of Rick O’Connell played by Fraser and Evie O’Connell played by Bello. The film was released on August 1, 2008.
Was short listed for a ‘Best New Talent’ Logie Award for his work on Australian TV series McLeod’s Daughters.
Quotes:
“Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I’d abused.”
“At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.”
“At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.”
“Everything we do affects other people.”
“I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.”
“I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive because it allowed me to act in any way that I wanted.”
“I did not want to reject religion as nonsense because life seemed to have no ultimate purpose without it, and most of the good people I knew were Christians.”
“I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.”
“I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn’t fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.”
“I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.”
“I loved history, particularly of the British, American and Old Testament kind.”
“I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.”
“I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.”
“I’ve often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.”
“In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.”
“Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.”
“Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.”
“My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.”
“The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.”
Filmography:
Luke Ford Filmography as an Actor:
2008 The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
2008 The Black Balloon
2006 Kokoda
2005 “Headland” (TV series)
2005 Hercules (TV series)
2001 - 2004 “McLeod’s Daughters” (TV series)
2002 - 2004 “All Saints” (TV series)
2001 “Stingers” (TV series)
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