---
name: "Murray Bartlett"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/murray-bartlett"
fi1m_id: "murray-bartlett"
imdb_id: "nm0058864"
tmdb_id: 152416
wikidata_id: "Q6939119"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "20 March 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 79
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-09-17T17:17:13.258964+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Murray Bartlett

## Identity

Murray Bartlett

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/murray-bartlett
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** murray-bartlett
- **IMDb ID:** nm0058864
- **TMDB ID:** 152416
- **Wikidata ID:** Q6939119
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Bartlett, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6939119, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0058864/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/152416

Actor. Born 20 March 1971 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 20 March 1971, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- **Active:** 2007–present
- **Also known as:** Murray Bartlet, 穆雷·巴特利特, موری بارتلت, مورای بارتلت
- **Average Fi1m score:** 79, as actor, over 5 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 84 (1), 2020s 78 (4)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 79 to 77 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 1 of 2 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Comedy 3, Drama 3, Action 1, Adventure 1, Mystery 1
- **Screen time:** 2 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $3m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Bartlett, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6939119, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0058864/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/152416

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The White Lotus*](https://film.one/tv/the-white-lotus.md) (85)

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## Fi1m on Murray Bartlett

> Murray Bartlett can make a man losing control funny without letting us forget what it costs him. His work in *The White Lotus* is excellent, and more sympathetic to its hotel manager than the writing sometimes allows.

In *The White Lotus* (2021), Murray Bartlett’s Armond is still trying to manage a hotel while its guests make the work intolerable. Bartlett keeps that effort visible: the man can be funny and hostile without ceasing to look worn down. It is an excellent performance because the strain remains convincing even when the comedy grows broad. We laughed at his hostility, then felt ashamed of ourselves when Bartlett showed how much it cost him to keep doing the job.

The long soap runs, including *Guiding Light* (2007–2009), preceded Dom in *Looking* (2014–2016) and Mouse in *Tales of the City* (2019). Intimacy between men recurs in his work, alongside the pressure of serving demanding customers. That makes it worth resisting the idea that his chief use is to play men coming apart. After his breakthrough as Armond came *Welcome to Chippendales* (2022) and the role of Frank in *The Last of Us* (2023). The resort manager remains our clearest reason to recommend him.

Writer-director Mike White does not always give the performance enough help on the page. The guests in *The White Lotus* have more fully explored troubles than the staff, who too often exist to show what working for the rich costs. Bartlett gives Armond enough distress and resentment to resist being reduced to an illustration, but he cannot supply all the attention the writing withholds. We can believe in this manager and still wish the programme were more interested in its workers.

It would be a waste to keep casting Bartlett merely for another unravelling. His interest in intimacy between men deserves as much attention as his ability to make distress funny. Start with *The White Lotus*, with the caveat that its manager gets more care from his actor than from the writing.

## Biography

Murray Bartlett is an Australian actor. Born on 20 March 1971 in Sydney, he trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1991. He began his career in Australian television and theatre before relocating to the United States around 2000.

Bartlett is best known for his role as Armond, the resort manager, in the first season of the HBO series *The White Lotus* (2021), for which he won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. He has also appeared in *Looking* (2014–2015), *Tales of the City* (2019), *Physical* (2021–2023), *Welcome to Chippendales* (2022), *The Last of Us* (2023) as Frank, and *Nine Perfect Strangers* (2025).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed* (2026), Fi1m 74, as Dennis — [page](https://film.one/tv/maximum-pleasure-guaranteed.md)
- *The Death of Robin Hood* (2026), Fi1m 66, as The Leper — [page](https://film.one/film/the-death-of-robin-hood.md)
- *The Last of Us* (2023), Fi1m 85, as Frank — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-last-of-us.md)
- *The White Lotus* (2021), Fi1m 85, as Armond — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-white-lotus.md)
- *Flight of the Conchords* (2007), Fi1m 84, as Mark — [page](https://film.one/tv/flight-of-the-conchords.md)

## Complete filmography (48)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Place to Be* (2026), as Ron
- *The Death of Robin Hood* (2026), as The Leper — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/the-death-of-robin-hood.md)
- *Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed* (2026), series, as Dennis — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/maximum-pleasure-guaranteed.md)
- *At the Sea* (2026), as Martin
- *Ponyboi* (2025), as Bruce
- *Opus* (2025), as Stan Sullivan
- *O'Dessa* (2025), as Plutonovich
- *Is / Was \ Will* (2025), Actor
- *Grounded II: Making The Last of Us Part II* (2024), as Frank (archive footage) (uncredited)
- *Extrapolations* (2023), series, as Mr. Turner
- *The Last of Us* (2023), series, as Frank — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-last-of-us.md)
- *Welcome to Chippendales* (2022), series, as Nick De Noia
- *Nine Perfect Strangers* (2021), series, as Brian Tumkin
- *The White Lotus* (2021), series, as Armond — Fi1m 85, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-white-lotus.md)
- *Physical* (2021), series, as Vinnie Green
- *The Great North* (2021), series, as Crocodile Rob (voice), Crocodile Tom (voice)
- *The Stand In* (2020), as Terry
- *Tales of the City* (2019), series, as Michael 'Mouse' Tolliver
- *Beach House* (2017), as Paul
- *Marvel's Iron Fist* (2017), series, as Paul Edmonds
- *Conviction* (2016), series, as Victor Bonotto
- *Looking: The Movie* (2016), as Dom Basaluzzo
- *Stubborn* (2015), as Murray
- *Looking* (2014), series, as Dom Basaluzzo
- *Kingston Avenue* (2013), as Le copain de Barbara
- *Girl Most Likely* (2012), as James Whitney
- *August* (2011), as Troy
- *Needle* (2010), as Tony Martin
- *Boys On Film 4: Protect Me From What I Want* (2010), as Troy (segment "Postmortem")
- *White Collar* (2009), series, as Adrian Tulane
- *The Good Wife* (2009), series, as Logan — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-good-wife.md)
- *Damages* (2007), series, as Seth Sloan — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/damages.md)
- *Flight of the Conchords* (2007), series, as Mark — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/flight-of-the-conchords.md)
- *OM* (2007), as John
- *headLand* (2005), series, as James Brogan
- *Postmortem* (2005), as Troy
- *McLeod's Daughters* (2001), series, as Simon
- *Muffled Love* (2001), as Ben
- *The Three Stooges* (2000), as Trocadera Patron
- *Farscape* (1999), series, as Douglas 'D.K.' Knox — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/farscape.md)
- *Sex and the City* (1998), series, as Oliver Spencer
- *Half Mongrel* (1998), Actor
- *The Beast* (1996), series, as Christopher Lane
- *The Beast* (1996), as Christopher Lane
- *Police Rescue* (1991), series, as Anthony Scanlon
- *E Street* (1989), series, as Jason King
- *The Flying Doctors* (1986), series, as Michael Freeman
- *All the Sinners Bleed*, series, as Scott Cunningham

## Gallery

- ![Murray Bartlett](https://film.one/media/person/47907/gallery-50bc7c6ad3f3.jpg) Murray Bartlett — Greg Hernandez from California, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Murray_Bartlett_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![P1050111 (2008)](https://film.one/media/person/47907/gallery-34bb48791e1c.jpg) P1050111 (2008) — Greg Hernandez from California, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Murray_Bartlett_%28further_cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![P1050111 (2008)](https://film.one/media/person/47907/gallery-7c597f820783.jpg) P1050111 (2008) — Greg Hernandez from California, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Murray_Bartlett_%28slightly_further_cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Australian actor Murray Bartlett (right). (2008)](https://film.one/media/person/47907/gallery-ab986785c4e7.jpg) Australian actor Murray Bartlett (right). (2008) — Greg Hernandez from California, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/P1050111_%285925456960%29.jpg/1280px-P1050111_%285925456960%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Murray Bartlett](https://film.one/media/person/47907/gallery-0853a27cce9f.jpg) Murray Bartlett — Image via TMDB
- ![Murray Bartlett](https://film.one/media/person/47907/gallery-747591604b16.jpg) Murray Bartlett — Image via TMDB
- ![Murray Bartlett](https://film.one/media/person/47907/gallery-a69e44ad5667.jpg) Murray Bartlett — Image via TMDB
- ![Murray Bartlett](https://film.one/media/person/47907/gallery-b2a3284bc25d.jpg) Murray Bartlett — Image via TMDB

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