Instead, he has just one part and it sucks the part of the service person, says White. I like to think they liked other aspects of the audition, but the mustache was pretty pivotal in getting that role., As the J train rumbles overhead, Bartlett explains the deeper meaning of his facial-hair journey: In these periods of doubt, Ive usually stepped away. He is . Murray is very good at playing people with both his feet on the ground. After filming "Physical," he'll shoot "Immigrant," Hulu's limited series about. I think hes half-French and grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney. I dont know what you say to that. Bartlett says he is sworn to secrecy about it, apart from saying he is very excited to shoot the project in Canada. In 2019, Bartlett and his partner and their lab-border collie rescue, Bo, relocated to Provincetown, a small town on the Massachusetts coast, after living in New York for 20 years. We use cookies on our website to give you the most relevant experience by remembering your preferences and repeat visits. Hopefully I am making better choices., For my 40th and 50th birthdays, for about a week before both, I felt incredibly unsettled. Murray Bartlett has been in show business since the '80s first, in Australia, where he was born, and then in New York in the early aughts. He was visiting the Bay Area at the time and came across VHS tapes of Tales of the City, the PBS miniseries that first aired in 1994. When they did, he still struggled to pronounce S properly (I said: Eth), so he went to see a speech therapist. It got me thinking, Oh maybe I could stay here. There was such a positivity in New York, people wanting to help me rise to do something. Bartlett has been living in Provincetown, Massachusetts for around 15 years, while appearing in US TV series and Anne has followed his career from Perth. 'I Want to Portray Male Closeness,' Says Murray Bartlett, 50 It will be interesting. Murray Bartlett's 8 Best Gay Roles in TV Shows & Movies February 01 2023 1:52 PM. This is finally happening for Murray. Though he sometimes worried that other actors would look down on him for doing soaps, Bartlett came to see it as a valuable experience a steady paycheck and daily practice memorizing dialogue and hitting marks.