Francis Greenslade

Francis Greenslade (born 3 October 1962) is an Australian comedic actor and acting teacher.

Early life
Greenslade was born in Honiara, Solomon Islands to Australian parents. In the 1980s, Greenslade studied at the University of Adelaide where he first met Shaun Micallef. They performed together in the university's Footlights Club. Greenslade was the President of the South Australian Debating Association (SADA) in 1992 and represented University of Adelaide at the World Universities Debating Championship where he was the Best Speaker in 1988.

Career
Greenslade has performed with Micallef in many television shows including The Micallef Program, Welcher & Welcher, Micallef Tonight and Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell. They both also appeared in Full Frontal.

Greenslade has also appeared on children's comedy Pig's Breakfast, SeaChange, Blue Heelers, Water Rats, The Games and Marshall Law as well as in the 2003 Australian feature film Take Away (with Stephen Curry). He stars as Brian Gross in the Seven Network show Winners & Losers alongside Denise Scott who plays his on-screen wife Trish.

Greenslade has appeared in numerous productions for the Malthouse Theatre, the Melbourne Theatre Company, Playbox Theatre, State Theatre Company of South Australia and the Magpie Theatre Company.

Greenslade teaches acting including drama at The National Theatre Drama School and at the Film & Television Studio International

Greenslade in 2015 appeared in The Ex-PM, he then made an appearance in the channel 9 tele-movie Schapelle after Schapelle Corby's high profile legal case, where he played Alexander Downer.

In 2022 Greenslade appeared in Netflix series Irreverant he played Ron.

Community work
Greenslade was a guest host at The Impossible Orchestra: 24 Hour Concert where Australia and New Zealand musicians played a world-first 24-hour symphony concert to raise awareness of the Care Aware campaign.

Personal life
Greenslade and his wife, Louise, have three children. He plays a range of musical instruments; clarinet, keyboard, accordion, guitar, ukulele and recorder. He is also a debater and has won various awards.

Despite sharing a surname, he is not related to his Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell co-star Tosh Greenslade.

Narration
Greenslade is a narrator of audio books including:-
 * Death Delight by Gabrielle Lord
 * The Gizmo by Paul Jennings
 * 48 Shades of Brown by Nick Earls
 * The Art of War for Executives by Sun Tzu; Donald G. Krause
 * The Book of Secrets by Tom Harper
 * Lost temple by Tom Harper
 * Bachelor kisses by Nick Earls
 * Walter wants to be a werewolf! by Richard Harland
 * Lethal factor by Gabrielle Lord
 * HMAS Sydney by Tom Frame
 * Backs to the Wall by G.D. Mitchell

Theatre
Melbourne Theatre Company
 * The Madwoman of Chaillot
 * Urinetown
 * Things We Do for Love
 * Man the Balloon
 * Blabbermouth
 * The Odd Couple
 * Shakespeare in Love

Sydney Theatre Company
 * Navigating

Playbox
 * Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee
 * Waking Eve
 * Competitive Tenderness
 * Babes in the Wood

Malthouse
 * Optimism
 * The Odyssey
 * Tartuffe

State Theatre Company (SA)
 * The Club
 * School for Scandal
 * Così
 * The Tempest
 * Accidental Death of an Anarchist
 * Marat/Sade
 * The Comedy of Errors

Magpie Theatre
 * Funerals and Circuses
 * Chutney
 * Snap
 * Prince of Knumbskulls
 * Radio Dazef

Arena Theatre Company
 * The Emperor's New Clothes

Red Shed
 * Desert

Patch
 * Evensong for Antarctica

The Marat Pack
 * The Ages of Man
 * Bishop Takes Knight
 * As Time Goes By
 * Not One But Two

Other
 * The Boy from Oz (with The Production Company)
 * 33 Variations (Comedy Theatre, Melbourne

Honours
In 2017, Greenslade's portrait by artist/animator Phil Meatchem was a finalist in the Archibald Prize. The 153 x 117 cm portrait has him sitting on a couch dressed in a suit, looking out at the viewer, that Meatchem said was "inspired by the elegant Oscar-night celebrity portraits by photographer Mark Seliger."