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Simon Lyndon is an acclaimed British-born Australian actor and director, best known for his award-winning performance as Jimmy Loughnan in the cult classic film Chopper (2000), for which he won an Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award for Best Supporting Actor. Born in London in 1971 and raised in Fremantle, Western Australia, he graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) before making significant impacts in both film and television. His diverse credits include standout roles in the 1997 drama Blackrock, Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line (1998), and the 2001 telemovie My Brother Jack, for which he earned another AFI nomination. In addition to recurring television roles in series such as Puberty Blues, Mystery Road, and Mr Inbetween, Lyndon made his feature film directorial debut with the 2024 rural drama Just a Farmer.
The story follows a team of pirate mercenaries known as the Lagoon Company, that smuggles goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia in the early to mid 1990s.[4] Their base of operations is located in the fictional harbor city of Roanapur in east Thailand near the border of Cambodia (somewhere in the Amphoe Mueang Trat district, likely on the mainland north/northeast of the Ko Chang island or on the island itself).[5] The city is home to the Japanese Yakuza, the Chinese Triad, the Russian mafia, the Colombian cartel, the Italian mafia, a wide assortment of pickpockets, thugs, mercenaries, thieves, prostitutes, assassins, and gunmen. The city also has a large Vietnamese refugee population following the Vietnamese refugees exodus after the Communist takeover of Vietnam in 1975. Lagoon Company transports goods for various clients in the American made 80-foot (24 m) Elco-type PT boat Black Lagoon. It has a particularly friendly relationship with the Russian crime syndicate Hotel Moscow. The team takes on a variety of missions—which may involve violent firefights, hand-to-hand combat, and nautical battles—in various Southeast Asian locations, even going as far as Phu Quoc island of Vietnam. When they are not working, the members of the Lagoon Company spend much of their down time at The Yellow Flag, a bar in Roanapur which is often destroyed in firefights.
