Leigh Whannell Filmography

Born:: January 17, 1977
Occupation:: Actor, Executive Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter
Biography:: Born in 1977 and raised in Melbourne, Aussie screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor Leigh Whannell alternated between work as a reporter and assignments as a TV-based movie critic on his native continent prior to his decision to attend film school in the early 2000s. As a production student...Read More

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Dying Breed

Synopsis: The noble search for a dying breed leads an ambitious zoologist to the discovery of a far more sinister species in this brutal Australian shocker featuring Leigh Whannell (Saw) and Nathan Phillips (Wolf Creek). Eight years ago, Zoology student Nina (Mirrah Foulkes)'s sister was searching for Read More

2008
Saw IV

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Scott Patterson, Betsy Russell, Lyriq Bent

Synopsis: Just when audiences thought they'd heard the last of the demented killer Jigsaw (Tobin Bell), here comes Saw IV, continuing his trap-filled legacy -- this time, targeting the last remaining officer who has touched the case, SWAT Commander Rigg (Lyriq Bent). As FBI agents Strahm (Scott Patterson) Read More

10/26/07
Death Sentence

Actors: Kevin Bacon, Garrett Hedlund, Kelly Preston, Aisha Tyler, John Goodman

Synopsis: Part vigilante drama and part psychological thriller, the James Wan-directed Death Sentence stars Kevin Bacon as Nick Hume, a deceptively passive exec whose wife and children are attacked in a sadistic, gang-related hazing rite, and his oldest son killed. Hell-bent on cold-blooded vengeance, Hume Read More

8/31/07
Dead Silence

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Ryan Kwanten, Amber Valletta, Donnie Wahlberg, Michael Fairman, Joan Heney

Synopsis: Saw duo James Wan and Leigh Whannell re-team for this chilling tale of a widower (Ryan Kwanten) who returns to his hometown to unearth clues about his recently departed wife's untimely death. In the quiet town of Ravens Fair, children taunt one another with spooky stories about a ventriloquist Read More

3/16/07
Saw III

Crew: Executive Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, Angus MacFadyen, Bahar Soomekh

Synopsis: Jigsaw (Tobin Bell) is back, and this time he's concocted his deadliest set of traps yet in this gore-soaked sequel written by James Wan and Leigh Whannell, and directed by Saw II's Darren Lynn Bousman. Picking up directly where its predecessor left off, Saw III finds Jigsaw near death and Read More

10/27/06
Saw II

Crew: Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Tobin Bell, Donnie Wahlberg, Shawnee Smith, Franky G., Glenn Plummer

Synopsis: Jigsaw, the diabolical criminal who captured the imagination of horror fans in the 2004 hit Saw, returns in this equally bloody sequel. Eric Matthews (Donnie Wahlberg) is a police detective who, after discovering the aftermath of a particularly gruesome murder, is convinced that Jigsaw (Tobin Read More

10/28/05
Saw

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Leigh Whannell, Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Ken Leung, Dina Meyer

Synopsis: The directorial debut from filmmaker James Wan, this psychological thriller comes from the first screenplay by actor Leigh Whannell, who also stars. Whannell plays Adam, one of two men chained up in a mysterious chamber. The other, Dr. Gordon (Cary Elwes), like Adam, has no idea how either of them Read More

10/29/04
The Matrix Reloaded

Actors: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Laurence Fishburne, Hugo Weaving, Jada Pinkett Smith

Synopsis: After creating an international sensation with the visually dazzling and intellectually challenging sci-fi blockbuster The Matrix, the Wachowski brothers returned with the first of two projected sequels that pick up where the first film left off. Neo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) Read More

5/15/03