Josh Quong Tart


Josh Quong Tart is an Australian actor.

Early life

Tart attended the McDonald College before he was accepted into National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1994, graduating in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in Performing Arts. He is a descendant of prominent Chinese Australian Mei Quong Tart, who ran a popular tea house in the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney, and was also an early Chinese ambassador to Australia. He is the youngest of four boys in his family.

Career

Tart's list of television credits includes the role of Will Monk on headLand, a drama series airing on the Seven Network and Matt Horner on the Australian award-winning series All Saints. Josh was also an original co-host on the kids TV show Sarvo with Jamie Croft on Foxtel's Nickelodeon.
Quong Tart featured alongside actress Genevieve Lemon and brother Byron Tart in the stage show, Lemon Tart in 2006 and 2007. Tart joined the cast of Home and Away in 2007 as Miles "Milco" Copeland. In October 2011, Tart announced he was departing Home and Away after nearly four years.
In 2012, Tart joined the cast of as Andrew Perish.
In August 2013, it was announced that Tart would play Scar in the 2013–16 Australian production of Disney's The Lion King, premiering in Sydney at The Capitol Theatre in December 2013. The show also played in Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth and closed in January 2016.
Tart starred in Betty Blokk-Buster Reimagined during the 2020 Sydney Festival. Sydney Morning Herald critic, Harriet Cunningham, called his performance "simply extraordinary" and "a revelation".

Filmography


YearFilmRoleNotes
2001All SaintsVincent Sterling, Matt Horner1999 1 episode, 2001–2003– 66 episode, 2004 1 episode
2003SarvoHimself2003
2003Syntax ErrorDesmond2003
2004McLeod's DaughtersGrant Meldrum2004 Season 4, Episode 27
2005headLandWill Monk2005–2006
2006Lemon TartHimself2006–2007
2007Home and AwayMiles Copeland2007–2011
2008Master RaindropFlamo
2010ShockShitstickshort film for Tropfest 2010
2012The Great Mint SwindleBrian MickelbergTelemovie
2012Andrew Perish
2013Around the BlockBarry Griffen
2016Scare CampaignRohan