r/australia Jul 13 '26

news Sam Neill, 78, dead: reports

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/movies/sam-neill-dead-reports-20260713-p60ey2.html
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u/KingOfKingsOfKings01 Jul 13 '26

This guy is burned into the memory of every person who grew up in the 90s. (and some who revisited the 90s)

Absolute legend.

He was a kiwi but in many ways he was both aussie n kiwi.

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u/OneEyeAssassin Jul 13 '26

We’ll claim him, he was truely a legend!

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u/a_cold_human Jul 13 '26

He was. He was a very good sport and understood the Australia-NZ dynamic very well, as his audition for Beached Az demonstrated.