Ian is a co-creator, script producer and writer on the Channel 7 Endemol Shine Banks series RFDS. His TV writing credits include RFDS the Awgie nominated SBS series On The Ropes, Foxtel's Upright, Spirited and Slide, Channel 10's The Wrong Girl & Offspring, and ABC's The Moodys. Ian adapted and directed Defender, a segment of Tim Winton's The Turning, which was produced by Robert Connolly and was AACTA nominated for best direction. He co-wrote and acted in the AFI award nominated short Water, and wrote and directed the Sydney Film Festival selected short film A Parachute Falling in Siberia which won an Australian Writers Guild Award and received an AFI award nomination. His play Between Two Waves premiered at Griffin Theatre Company in 2012 where Ian was a member of the inaugural Griffin Studio. It was awarded Belvoir Theatre Company's 2013 Phillip Parsons Fellowship. As an actor Ian graduated from WAAPA in 2005. Ian's Film and TV acting credits include Netflix's Clickbait, The Wrong Girl, True Story, Dead Lucky, ABC's 8MMM, The Moodys, A Moody Christmas, Rake, Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo, the HBO series The Pacific, and film Killing Ground (MIFF 2016, Sundance 2017).
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Biography from IMDb.
- February 4, 1983 (43)
- Collie, Western Australia, Australia
- Actor, writer and director
- 15 on MovieCove · 29 credits in all
What are Ian Meadows' films like?
Across their 7 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Survival.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 1 · Wry 0 · Earnest 2
Light 0 · Serious 0 · Dark 3
Grounded 1 · Stylized 2 · Heightened 0
Gentle 0 · Charged 0 · Intense 3
Steady 1 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 2 · Some laughs 1 · Funny 0
Slow burn 1 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 1
Casual 0 · Engaged 3 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 0 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 2
Resolved 0 · Open-ended 3 · Ambiguous 0
Roles they play
Usually the Ally: 2 of 3 analyzed roles.
- Allyas Andrew Cowell in Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo (2011)
- Threshold guardianas Marcus in Scare Campaign (2016)
- Allyas Ian Smith in Killing Ground (2016)
Moods and endings
- Happy1
- Bittersweet4
- Ambiguous2
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Ian Meadows' films?
As of October 24, 2026, 14 of their 15 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (9).
- Mao's Last Dancer (2009) · actor · free
- Spirited (2010) · writer · free
- Rush (2008) · actor · free
- Underbelly Files: The Man Who Got Away (2011) · actor · free
- Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo (2011) · actor · free
- All Saints (1998) · actor · free
- The Turning (2013) · director, writer · free
- Dead Lucky (2018) · actor · free
- Killing Ground (2016) · actor · free
Subscription and free streaming for Ian Meadows' titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
29 credits, 15 with a MovieCove page.
Clickbait(2021)
Midcredits score: 61st percentile of all shows
RFDS(2021)
Midcredits score: 92nd percentile of all shows
Upright(2019)
Midcredits score: 97th percentile of all shows
On The Ropes (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)
Playing for Keeps(2018)
Midcredits score: 24th percentile of all shows
Dead Lucky(2018)
Midcredits score: 41st percentile of all shows
Killing Ground(2016)
Midcredits score: 35th percentile of all films
True Story with Hamish & Andy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)
The Wrong Girl (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)
Scare Campaign(2016)
Midcredits score: 36th percentile of all films
8MMM Aboriginal Radio (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2015)
The Moodys (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2014)
The Turning(2013)
Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all films
A Moody Christmas (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
House Husbands (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2012)
SLiDE (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2011)
Midcredits score: 62nd percentile of all shows
Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films
Spirited(2010)
Midcredits score: 79th percentile of all shows
Offspring (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
A Parachute Falling in Siberia (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2010)
Mao's Last Dancer(2009)
Midcredits score: 81st percentile of all films
3 Acts of Murder (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
water (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2009)
Rush(2008)
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all shows
East West 101 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)
Tripping Over (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
SeaChange(1998)
Midcredits score: 85th percentile of all shows
All Saints(1998)
Midcredits score: 54th percentile of all shows
Career shape
Star power in the 79th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 29 titles from 1998 to 2021.
Film career
- 2016Screen debut· Scare Campaign
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.
How do Ian Meadows' films land?
Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 44th percentile, the median of all 5; across a limited sample of 3 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 43rd percentile for acclaim.
- 75th and up6
- 50th to 74th4
- 25th to 49th4
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
8 of their 15 titles are Crowd Pleasers.
- Universally Loved2
- Crowd Pleaser8
- Broadly Agreed2
- Mixed3
Reviewers score the acting 69/100 in their films, across 3 reviewed titles; fans 77, detractors 60. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Is Ian Meadows' work okay for kids?
Across a limited sample of up to 3 MovieCove titles with content scores.
Severity 0–100 from the Content Guide. Categories with under 10 votes on a title are not counted.
Who does Ian Meadows work with?
People who share at least 2 of Ian Meadows' MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Annie Maynard shares the most, 2.
Actors
- Annie MaynardShared titles: Playing for Keeps (2018), Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo (2011)See all 2 shared titles with Annie Maynard
Composers and cinematographers
- Michael YezerskiShared titles: Dead Lucky (2018), The Turning (2013)See all 2 shared titles with Michael Yezerski
- John BrawleyShared titles: Scare Campaign (2016), The Turning (2013)See all 2 shared titles with John Brawley
- Stephen RaeShared titles: The Turning (2013), Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo (2011)See all 2 shared titles with Stephen Rae
Producers
- Rory CallaghanShared titles: Playing for Keeps (2018), Paper Giants: The Birth of Cleo (2011)See all 2 shared titles with Rory Callaghan