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Richard Roxburgh reprises his heralded portrayal of Australia’s most notorious former detective Roger Rogerson in Blue Murder: Killer Cop - leading an all star cast including Toni Collette, Matt Nable, Dan Wyllie, Emma Booth, Justin Smith, Damian Walshe-Howling, Steve Le Marquand, Aaron Pedersen, Robert Mammone, and reprising their original roles - Tony Martin and Peter Phelps. A floating body, a drug deal gone wrong, and two former detectives the perpetrators. Life imprisonment is the end of Roger Rogerson’s story. The last Blue Murder ended with his expulsion in disgrace from the NSW Police Force. In this instalment he struggles to make a living in a world that’s rapidly changing, caught between the pressures of criminals, police and a love that might save him. Written by Peter Schreck, directed by Michael Jenkins and produced by Michael Jenkins and Carol Hughes, and executive produced by John Edwards, Richard Roxburgh and Julie McGauran - Blue Murder: Killer Cop is an Endemol Shine Australia production for Seven Network Australia, made with the assistance of Screen Australia and Screen NSW. Blue Murder Killer Cop is a scripted drama not a documentary. Some characters and events have been created for dramatic purposes. EPISODE ONE “You sleep easy because people like me kept things neat and tidy.” From his final fall, recorded on CCTV outside a storage lock-up in suburban Sydney, Blue Murder: Killer Cop tracks back to Kings Cross, 1989. On the eve of a new decade, ‘disgraced former detective’ Roger Rogerson (Richard Roxburgh) struggles to find relevance in a rapidly changing world. With the old guard of corrupt Kings Cross detectives soon to be taken down by authorities, can Roger fight to get back in the game through his connections? Or will new found love with Anne (Toni Collette) inspire him to take a new path? EPISODE TWO “Well as my dear old grandmother used to say … it’s all fun and games until someone loses any eye.” Roger Rogerson (Richard Roxburgh) looks to make ends meet by proposing a scheme to his good mate “Mickel” (Dan Wyllie). But Mickel faces personal challenges of his own, not least in the form of crusading NSW Crime Commission Investigator Mark Standen (Matt Nable) who has plans to pursue Mickel to his last breath. Can Roger succeed in his plans and help his mate too? Award-winning actor Richard Roxburgh has worked on his association with Cate Blanchett, with whom he stage and screen around the world. His screen credits also appeared as the title character in STC’s hugely include Moulin Rouge, Doing Time For Patsy Cline, successful production of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, Mission Impossible II, Oscar & Lucinda, Thank God He directed by Tamas Ascher. Richard shared the stage Met Lizzie, Children Of The Revolution, The Turning with some of Australia’s finest actors including Cate (Reunion), Matching Jack and James Cameron’s action Blanchett, Hugo Weaving, Jackie Weaver and John adventure film Sanctum. Bell. The play had a revival at the Kennedy Center in Washington in 2011, the New York Times describing Richard’s well known television credits include the role his performance as “astonishing, Richard Roxburgh, of Cleaver Greene in the ABC hit series Rake, which he who seems to melt and re-form before your eyes”. The also co-creates and produces. His brilliant performance play was remounted at the Lincoln Centre New York for earned him a TV Week Silver Logie for Most Outstanding the Sydney Theatre Company in 2012. Additional stage Actor and the 2012 AACTA Award for Best Actor in a credits include Waiting For Godot (including a critically Television Series. The series screens in the US on DirectTV. acclaimed 2015 tour to the Barbican, London), Toy His performance in the role of Prime Minister Bob Hawke Symphony, The Seagull, Hamlet (Company B) in Channel TEN’s Tele-movie Hawke earned Richard and Closer (Sydney Theatre Company). critical acclaim along with his award winning electrifying portrayal as the notorious Roger Rogerson in the ABC’s Most recently Richard appeared opposite controversial mini-series Blue Murder. For the ABC he Radha Mitchell and up and comer also collaborated with Somersault director Cate Shortland Odessa Young in Sue Brooks’ Looking on the two-part drama series The Silence and East Of For Grace. He has recently completed Everything where he played the lead role of Art Watkins. filming the fourth instalment of Rake. Richard is also an accomplished director. His debut film, Romulus, My Father, starring Eric Bana drew critical acclaim when it was released in 2007. Richard most recently appeared on stage in the critically hailed The Present, at the Sydney Theatre Company, an adaptation of Chekhov’s Platonov, continuing Matt Nable / Mark Standen Matt Nable is an Australian actor and writer. Last year saw Nable in the third season of US ratings success Arrow as Ra’s al Ghul, the Australian Series In 2007, Nable wrote and played the lead in Paramount Winter as Jack Harris and the television mini- Pictures’ first Australian acquisition – the critically series Gallipoli. acclaimed The Final Winter. Up next, Nable will be seen in Incarnate Following that success, he headed to the U.S. where he alongside Aaron Eckhart, the horror- played the lead role in the television pilot SIS. Nable thriller feature In Cold Light, the Mel went on to star in such feature films as The Killer Elite Gibson directed feature Hacksaw Ridge, with Jason Statham, Clive Owen and Robert De Niro; Jasper Jones alongside Hugo Weaving and 33 Postcards with Guy Pearce; K-11 and The Turning, a Toni Collette, as well as the US television chronicle of short films based on stories by Australian series Quarry, Arrow Season 4, Legends of writer Tim Winton, with cast Hugo Weaving, Cate Tomorrow. Blanchett and Rose Byrne. 2013 saw the release of Riddick with Nable in a lead role alongside Vin Diesel Most recently Matt was seen in the Australian and in 2014 the revenge and redemption drama Fell and mini-series Barracuda, as well as the television Around the Block with Christina Ricci. Also in 2014 he drama Hyde & Seek as the lead. worked alongside Ewan McGregor in Son of a Gun. Nable has also published three books with On the small screen, Nable starred as Travis in the third Penguin: “We Don’t Live Here Anymore”, “Faces in season of the international award-winning Australian the Clouds” and “Guilt.” drama, East West 101. He also played Detective Sergeant Gary Jubelin in the fifth instalment of the critically-acclaimed Australian series Underbelly: Badness. Nable then starred as the lead, Jock Ross, in the gritty, six-part series about the war between two of Australia’s most notorious biker gangs, Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms. Justin Smith / Glen MacNamara Justin’s most recently appeared opposite Jacki Weaver Clark in Sarajevo for the Griffin Theatre; the Australian and Alan Dale in Foxtel’s Secret City and later in the year tour of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap; The Floating will be seen on Stan. in Jungle’s second series of comedy World and The New Electric Ballroom for the Griffin No Activity. Theatre Company; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for Railway Street Theatre; and he performed in three Justin’s other television credits include Deadline main stage productions for the Sydney Theatre Gallipoli, Devil’s Playground, Underbelly: Badness, Company, Marion Potts’ The Wonderful World of Howzat! Kerry Packer’s War, The Straits, Tricky Business, Dissocia, Howard Davies’ The Cherry Orchard and Spirited, My Place, Queen Kat Carmel and St Jude, Andrew Upton’s Ruby Moon. White Collar Blue, Backberner, Stingers and Bastard Boys for which he was nominated for an AFI Award for Justin’s musical theatre credits include Billy Elliot: Best Guest or Supporting Actor in a Television Drama. The Musical, Jesus Christ Superstar, Rent and Tick Tick Boom. Justin has starred in numerous stage productions including most recently Arcadia for the Sydney In 2017 Justin will appear in Pirates of The Theatre Company. He was also seen on stage in Simon Caribbean: Dead Man Tell No Tales. His other Stone’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Benedict Andrews’ feature film credits include Fred Schepisi’s The Eye The Threepenny Opera and Svetlana in Slingbacks for of the Storm, Around the Block, Sleeping Beauty, Belvoir; The Winter’s Tale, Just Macbeth, The Servant of Burning Man, Being Venice and Angst. Two Masters and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet for the Bell Shakespeare Company; The Floating World, Dan Wyllie / Michael Hurley Dan’s breakthrough role was in the 1990 film Spotswood In 2013 Dan appeared in Network Nine’s next instalment alongside Anthony Hopkins. This was followed by of the Underbelly franchise Underbelly: Squizzy, the notable performances in Muriel’s Wedding, Romper ABC tele-movie The Broken Shore, and the Stomper, Holy Smoke, The Thin Red Line, Peter Pan, second series of Puberty Blues for which and the James Cameron produced Sanctum. In more he was again nominated for an AACTA recent years Dan’s feature film credits include The Award. In the same year Dan also made Hunter with Willem Dafoe, the Australian thriller Bait, a guest appearance in the popular ABC the Rolf de Heer films The King Is Dead and Charlie’s series Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Country, David Michod’s Animal Kingdom, and Russell and in a lead role in the stand alone Crowe’s feature film directorial debut The Water Diviner. episode of the ABC comedy series It’s A Date. 2014 saw Dan receive an AACTA Dan’s earlier television performances include a leading nomination for Best Guest or Supporting role in the award-winning series Love My Way for which Actor in a Television Drama for his stand out he won the TV Week Silver Logie for Most Outstanding double episode guest appearance opposite Actor in a Drama Series in 2006.