Colin Friels is a Scottish-born Australian actor who has become synonymous with the no-nonsense tough guy persona as typified in a series of " Black Jack" television movies. However, his career has crossed spectrum of Theatre, Film and Television since 1980.
In late 1997, Friels was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Fortunately, Friels treatment was successful and he is one of the very few victims of this disease to go into long-term remission. During his treatment he even continued to work on the set of the popular television series, "Water Rats", until eventually the impact of the chemotherapy stopped him from working. He chose to have his character written out of the series by sending him on a sailing journey around the world. At this time, however, he continued his stage work as was performing in Sydney Theatre Company's production of "Macbeth" at the time.
He has been married to the internationally acclaimed actor, Judy Davis since 1984 and appear to be still going strong.
