Ian Meadows is an Australian actor, playwright and writer.
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Early life and education
Born and raised in Collie, Western Australia, Meadows trained at Curtin University and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), graduating in 2005. His older brother Ross Meadows played hockey for Australia and his younger sister Neroli Meadows is a sports journalist on Fox Sports Australia and Fox Footy.
Acting career
Meadows' highest profile television role to date was as Rocco Cooper, a young troubled boy who was forced by his brother to try and take out Sally Fletcher, on the long-running Australian soap opera Home and Away.
Other roles have included a part in The Shark Net, Elliot in Tripping Over, a single-episode role as Jeff Weiss on All Saints, and a major role in the short films Brothers, Legacy, Water, as well as the 2009 film Mao's Last Dancer and the miniseries The Pacific.
Meadows' theatre credits include Modern International Dead at the Griffin Theatre Company in Sydney in 2008 for which he earned a nomination for Best Newcomer at the Sydney Theatre Awards 2008. He appeared in the Russian play Ladybird at the Belvoir St Theatre, Sydney in March 2009, which he also helped produce and re-write to localise in Australia.
