The Witcher’s Eamon Farren thanks ‘the whole drama department at Benowa State High’

The Witcher’s Eamon Farren has worked with some of the biggest names in Hollywood. 

But now the 36-year-old has revealed his biggest acting influencers were his teachers at Benowa State High School and.

Speaking to The Confidential, Eamon – who has worked with Cate Blanchett and Henry Cavill – said their belief meant everything to him. 

‘I’ve worked with some amazing people and incredible artists that have given me such knowledge but I honestly believe the most important thing I got early on were those teachers I met in Queensland that really said to me, ”You should do this”,’ Farren told the publication. 

‘Because growing up in Queensland on the Gold Coast I was the drama nerd, and I went to a school where surfing was a subject, and to be the theatre kid, it was other.’ 

He credited the teachers for encouraging him to believe in himself.  

‘The whole drama department at Benowa State High, those were the teachers that actually said to me, you can go to drama school and you should do theatre and you should be an actor … And I think there wouldn’t be a Cate Blanchett without those people, there wouldn’t be me here probably.’

‘The permission to be you and do you is an incredible thing,’ he finished. 

Eamon has had somewhat of a quiet rise to success. After finishing school he went on to study at NIDA in Sydney. 

He later auditioned for The Witcher while living in Los Angeles.

Farren plays Cahir Mawr Dyffryn aep Ceallach, one of the villains of the Netflix drama.  

Prior to being on The Witcher, he won an AACTA Award for his role in the successful mini-series, Carlotta, in 2015.  

He also starred in The Dig, alongside Ralph Fiennes and Carey Mulligan.