Australian actor Nicholas Eadie, 66, died on Jan. 22. Born in Sydney to actor Mervyn Eadie, Nicholas attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art. As early as 1981, he was costarring in the police series Cop Shop; he also had costarring roles in The Henderson Kids, Vietnam (a 1987 miniseries costarring a young Nicole Kidman), and Medivac. He was nominated for the Australian Film Institute's Best Actor for Fragments of War and Halifax f.p. (he won the award for Vietnam). Eadie was also active onstage, appearing all over Australia in such varied shows as The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Crucible, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mamma Mia!, and the premieres of such shows as Furious, Two Brothers, and Myth, Propaganda and Disaster in Nazi Germany and Contemporary America. Occasional costar Rhys Muldoon called him “a great actor” and “one of life’s best scallywags,” and Toby Schmitz added, “An actor thrumming with savvy truth, dangerous wit; a thrilling artist.”
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