BAD GUY GONE GOOD
After 40 years on TV and film screens, Australian actor Damon Herriman is looking for a change of pace. From the adorable kid on the hit Aussie drama series The Sullivans in the ’70s and ’80s, to a rogue priest on Foxtel’s four-part gothic thriller Lambs of God, Herriman has run the gamut of character acting like no other. He’s now coming off a 10-year run of playing every low-life and scum-bag in a host of U.S. and Australian TV series and movies, and it’s a journey that’s hit boiling point for the 49-year-old South Australian.
Herriman is currently portraying criminal cult-leader Charles Manson in not one but two separate Hollywood productions. The first Manson installment is a cameo in Quentin Tarantino’s ninth film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which made its Australian debut on August 3 at the 2019 Melbourne International Film Festival. Tarantino’s ode to late ’60s Hollywood is a masterwork of violence and old-school pop culture featuring a star studded cast including Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and fellow Aussie Margot Robbie.
Herriman says it was a “pinch-me moment” when the news came through from Tarantino’s production team that
