
Acting
Community Rating
5.8
TMDB estimate
Born
July 30, 1969 (age 56)
Born in
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Simon Baker (born 30 July 1969, height 5' 9¾" (1,77 m)) is an Australian actor and director. In his television acting career, he is best known for his lead role in the CBS television series The Mentalist as Patrick Jane and as Nicholas Fallin in The Guardian. In his film acting career, he is best known for the lead role of Riley Denbo in Land of the Dead and Christian Thompson in the film adaptation of The Devil Wears Prada, based on the 2003 novel of the same name. Simon Baker was born to a high school English teacher, Elizabeth Labberton, and a groundskeeper/mechanic, Barry Baker, on 30 July 1969, in Launceston, Tasmania. He was raised as a Roman Catholic. His parents divorced while he was still young. His mother later married Tom Denny, a butcher. Simon Baker also has a sister, currently a doctor in Australia, and three younger half brothers. By 1972, the family had moved from Launceston to Ballina, New South Wales, where Baker's parents hoped to secure better paying jobs. In 1986, he graduated from Ballina High School as Simon Baker-Denny, after completing his primary school education at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Primary School, also in Ballina.

The Devil Wears Prada
Christian Thompson
2006

L.A. Confidential
Matt Reynolds
1997

Margin Call
Jared Cohen
2011

Red Planet
Chip Pettengill
2000

Land of the Dead
Riley
2005

Sex and Death 101
Roderick Blank
2007

The Ring Two
Max Rourke
2005

Most Wanted
Stephen Barnes
1997

Ride with the Devil
George Clyde
1999

The Killer Inside Me
Howard Hendricks
2010

Something New
Brian Kelly
2006

I Give It a Year
Guy
2013

Breath
Sando
2017

The Affair of the Necklace
Rétaux de Vilette
2001

Klara and the Sun

Judas Kiss
Junior Armstrong
1998

Sunset Strip
Michael Scott
2000

The Lodger
Malcolm
2009

Women in Trouble
Travis McPherson
2009

Not Forgotten
Jack Bishop
2009