Whatever happens to the mental actor Simon Baker?

Remember “The Mentalist”? Of course you are doing. In an era in which procedural crime television was more crowded than ever, the CBS drama that seven seasons itself was placed above the competition. For its time and place, the show was a little higher than it was typical, partly due to the sensitivities of the creator and Bruno Heller, who also participated in its creation The leading HBO epic “Rome”.

If you do not return the offer a day, and have not returned to the contract in the contract since she left the air, then “Mentalist” follows the exploits of the Con-Man and Pseudo-Psychic Patrick Jane, coated with peak and balance by the Australian Simon Baker. Jin works as a police consultant, and Jin follows the serial killer known as Red John, who killed his wife and daughter.

Think about it as “myself”, but an actual drama instead of a comedy crime – strange coincidence given that the shows interfere on TV for several years. While Baker got a great fame for his performance, he even got an EMMY nomination at some point in 2009 (he lost to Brian Cranston for “Breaking Bad”), he was not very active. Since the conclusion of “The Mentalist” in 2015. However, if you don’t see it recently, you may have just looked at the wrong places. Baker has appeared in a number of films and prominent shows in the past ten years, including the Apple TV+ Anthology 2022 “Roar” and “Boy Swallows World” from Netflix in 2024, and a set of projects produced in its homeland Australia.

His dialect in “The Mentalist”, as well as in Hollywood films such as “Margin Call” and “Satan wears Prada,” It is very convincing that many American fans may not realize that Simon Baker is an Australian. But since the end of the show in 2015, he has almost exclusively worked in his country of origin on a wide range of movies and performances.

Just two years after the “Mentalist” conclusion, in 2017, he directed Baker, participated in writing, and he starred in the Australian drama movie “Breathing”. Follow this multi -talented turn by other Australian films produced such as the Historical Drama of 2020 “High Groud” and 2023 Thriller “Limbo”, both also Star Baker on the screen. In the middle, he returned to Hollywood in 2018 for the Sarah Jessica Parker championship in “Here and Now”, and he is scheduled to do so again in the upcoming Tika Wittte adaptation of the science fiction novel in Kazo Ishigoro “Clara and Sun.”

On TV screens, Baker also worked in Australia since “The Mentalist”, although some of these have received more international attention through broadcast publications. This includes “Boy Swallows World” mentioned above, as well as the PRIME 2025 video series “narrow to Deep North”, led by the Hollywood star Eleordi.

In the 2025 profile for Esquire AustraliaBaker discussed how much he enjoyed returning to Australia in 2016 after concluding his obligations on “The Mentalist”. “When I lived in the United States, I was often asked more here,” the director told the director. “The instant viscera was, as you know, how I felt in a rainy morning at the end of March. The smell of the ocean was those things.” He explained that returning to the homeland was “grounding” for him, which is a large part of the reason for most of his work since then on Australian lands. The other part was the desire to be just an actor, not a star, with all the additional demands and luggage brought by the main fame.

“Most of the big stars these days are good in being famous,” Baker told Esquire Australia. “I was never able to do that. I never felt completely confident in throwing myself completely, and I go,” I will be a big, bright and bright star, and I will do the things you have to do. “

In the same interview, Baker explained that he intentionally came out of the spotlight after “The Mentalist” to give his career space to breathe. This decision has led to this kind of work it has been doing for years until now, and his hearing is telling him that it is happier than ever.