Jeremy Ball

Jeremy Dacre Ball (10 August 1968 – 15 September 2014) was an Australian politician, actor and activist. Ball served as the Deputy Mayor of Launceston, Tasmania's second largest city, from 2011 until his death in 2014 due to a car accident. He was a member of the Tasmanian Greens, the state chapter of the Australian Greens. Ball also worked as a professional actor during the late 1990s. He was best known for his portrayal of Warren Harvey in the 1997 ABC television series, Fallen Angels, as well as a small role as a businessman in The Matrix in 1999. Life Ball was born in Wonthaggi, Victoria, in 1968, the third son of general practitioner John Jennings Ball, head of a landed gentry family of Veryan, Cornwall, and Caroline, daughter of Ivor Cresswell Wellsford Bayldon, OBE, of Tanzania. He received a Bachelor of Dramatic Art degree from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 1995. He played Warren Harvey in the ABC series, Fallen Angels in 1997. Ball was also cast in the 1999 action film, The Matrix, which was filmed on location in Sydney. In his scene, Ball plays a businessman talking on his cell phone. Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, grabs and steals Ball's phone while being chased through the city streets by Agent Smith, played by Hugo Weaving.