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Australian actor and director Simon Baker has pleaded guilty to drink driving in a New South Wales (NSW) court.<\/p>\n
Baker was caught intoxicated behind the wheel on a road near his home in the Byron Bay region in the early hours of 20 July.<\/p>\n
He was excused from appearing at Mullumbimby Court House on Wednesday, but court documents show the 55-year-old admitted to a single charge of driving under the influence of alcohol, his first such offence.<\/p>\n
Baker has starred in Home and Away, the Devil Wears Prada and earned Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for his lead role in the US-crime drama series The Mentalist. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n
He grew up in northern NSW and cut his teeth on classic Australian shows like Heartbreak High and A Country Practice.<\/p>\n
He won Best New Talent at the Logies – Australia’s top television awards – in 1993, but soon made the move to the US, where he landed a role in the Academy Award winning film L.A. Confidential.<\/p>\n
After two decades in Hollywood, for which he received a star on the city’s Walk of Fame, Baker returned to Australian film and TV, branching into directing as well as acting.<\/p>\n
He was most recently nominated for Best Lead Actor at the Logies for his role in the hit Netflix show Boy Swallows Universe. <\/p>\n
He is listed to appear in Mullumbimby Court House again on September 11 where he is due to face sentencing. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n