Simon Baker from the Mentalist! :)
He was first recognized in 1991 when he received Australia’s prestigious Logie Award for Most Popular New Talent. And, apparently he is going to be one more new talent to watch.
He is married to Rebecca Rigg and they have 3 children. You might find them hanging out with Nicole Kidman as Rebecca and Kidman have known each other for many years.
As a teenager, he was into surfing and water polo. He was one of the singers/dancers in the band Euphoria’s film clip “Love you right”. Russell Crow and Guy Pearce were raised in Australia along with Baker and all three of them appeared in LA Confidential in 1997. However, Baker is the only one of the three that was born an Aussie. He was voted People magazines “50 Most Beautiful People” in 2002 and Named among Fade in Magazine’s “100 People in Hollywood You Need to Know” in 2005.
Baker appeared in The Guardian and now has his own CBS crime drama, The Mentalist. He plays a recovering phony psychic who uses his powers of observation to solve police mysteries. I don’t know, doesn’t sound like my type of show, but, I do love me some Criminal Minds so you can never tell.
So, obviously he has been around for a while and we’ve just managed to miss him. He was paling around with Rufus Sewell in the TV Guide shoot for the Men of Fall 2008. His personal quote goes like this, “If you can’t be proud of what you do, go and sell shoes. Do something else.”
Yea, what he said.
March 19th, 2009 at 9:03 am
Looove this man
His wife is one lucky lady!