Marc Fennell
Journalist, Filmmaker, Documentary Storyteller & MC
Marc Fennell is a Walkley-winning journalist, AACTA-nominated filmmaker and one of Australia’s most recognisable documentary storytellers. Known for his incisive interviews, award-winning investigations, and compelling storytelling, he engages audiences with insight, curiosity and a signature sense of humour.
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Marc Fennell is an award-winning Australian journalist, filmmaker, podcast creator and television presenter, celebrated for his work in investigative and factual storytelling. He is the creator and host of the hit series and podcast Stuff the British Stole, which screens on ABC Australia, BBC Select and CBC Canada, and has fronted over 600 episodes of SBS’s iconic quiz show Mastermind. Marc also hosts ABC’s history-mystery podcast No One Saw It Coming.
Marc has become one of Australia’s most awarded factual presenters, receiving accolades including eight New York Festivals medals, a James Beard Foundation Food Journalism Award, a Canadian Screen Award, an AWGIE, an Asian Academy Creative Award, three AIDC Awards, multiple Webby Honours, and more. The Times (UK) has described him as “the cheerful Aussie version of Louis Theroux.”
His documentary work includes Logie- and AACTA-nominated The School That Tried to End Racism, The Kingdom, The Mission, the Rose d’Or-shortlisted Framed, Red Flag, the Walkley-nominated Came From Nowhere, as well as The Secret DNA of Us and Tell Me What You Really Think (2025). He continues to break new ground with podcasts for Audible, including It Burns (2019), Nut Jobs (2020), House of Skulls (2023), This Is Not a Game (2024), and Corked (2025).
A familiar voice on ABC Radio, Marc presented Download This Show from 2012–2024 and was triple j’s long-running “Movie Guy”, known to more than 3.1 million listeners. He has interviewed figures including Al Gore, Tom Cruise, Julian Assange and Jennifer Lawrence, amassing over 30 million online views.
Marc’s broadcasting career began at Sydney’s FBi 94.5 as a film critic, and by age 19 he was recruited to SBS’s The Movie Show. He later worked on ABC TV’s journalism experiment Hungry Beast (2009–2011) and hosted the world’s largest short film festival, Tropfest (2014–2016). Beyond journalism, he has worked as an art director, web developer, magazine and newspaper writer, and even, briefly, a hand model.
With decades of experience across television, radio, print and digital platforms, Marc Fennell combines incisive analysis, humour and storytelling to engage and entertain audiences worldwide.
