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Simon Baker
Known for: ActingSimon Baker (born July 30, 1969) 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.
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The Mentalist
as Patrick Jane 
El diable es vesteix de Prada
as Christian Thompson 
The Guardian
as Nick Fallin 
The Ring 2
as Max Rourke 
Margin call
as Jared Cohen 
Scarpetta
as Benton Wesley 
L.A. Confidential
as Matt Reynolds 
Land of the Dead
as Riley 
L'estret camí cap al nord profund
as Keith Mulvaney 
Sex and Death 101
as Roderick Blank 
Red Planet
as Chip Pettengill 
Els hi dono un any
as Guy 
Something New
as Brian Kelly 
Cavalca amb el diable
as George Clyde 
Es busca
as Stephen Barnes 
Not Forgotten
as Jack Bishop 
El dimoni sota la pell
as Howard Hendricks 
High Ground
as Travis 
Women in Trouble
as Travis McPherson 
Here and Now
as Nick 
El misteri del collaret
as Rétaux de Vilette 
The Lodger
as Malcolm 
Respira
as Sando 
El petó de Judes
as Junior Armstrong 
Limbo
as Travis Hurley 
Sunset Strip
as Michael Scott 
Blaze
as Luke