Jerome Ehlers (20 December 1958 – 9 August 2014) was an Australian actor and writer.
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Early life
Ehlers was born in Perth, Western Australia to Francis Charles Ehlers and his wife Berenice Margaret Franklyn Ehlers. He went to school in Perth and then lived in Floreat, Curtin, Western Australia, from 1977. He was a resident of St. Thomas More College in Perth, during the mid-1970s. He graduated from University of Western Australia in 1987. He then graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) alongside his future wife, actress Emily Simpson in 1987.
Career
Ehlers made his acting debut as Captain Watkin Tench in 1987 miniseries Frontier, alongside Max Cullen, Ruth Cracknell, and Robert Coleby.
Early television credits include the miniseries True Believers (1988), Body Surfer (1989), Darlings of the Gods (1989)
and Bangkok Hilton (1989) – the latter alongside Nicole Kidman in her breakout role.
