PATRICK BRAMMALL 'ADOPTING WAS OUR DREAM'

An illness left him unable to conceive, but he always knew he'd be a father one day

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After years of hard graft getting his name out there in Australian film and TV, Patrick Brammall’s certainly enjoying his time in the leading-man spotlight, thanks to a plum role in The Devil Wears Prada 2. Yet, he admits that getting his big break at 50 means taking a backseat to his other, more important job – devoted girl dad. “I’m like, oh f**k, wouldn’t it have been good if this kind of opportunity had happened 20 years ago? But I know I wouldn’t have been ready,” Patrick says. “I would have got caught up in it… I wouldn’t have known the value of other things. I have tiny people who depend on me… and that’s more important than this.”

LONG ROAD TO FATHERHOOD

It’s not surprising that Patrick cherishes his role as a father so much, given the journey he and wife Harriet Dyer went on to become parents to daughters Joni, four, and Mabel, one. In a candid chat for Mamamia’s No Filter podcast recently, the actor reflected back on his serious health issues as a child and how ongoing medical intervention and surgeries left him unable to conceive children naturally.