Remember the "mentalist"? Of course you are doing. In an era when the procedural crime television was a more crowded genre than ever, the seven -season CBS drama was put above the match. For its time and place, the show was a little more appropriate than it was typical, partly because of the sensitors of creator and show Bruno Heller, who also co-all. HBO's "Rome" epic.

If you didn't catch the show during the day, and you haven't returned to the hunt for the decade, after leaving the air, the "mentalist" follows the exploatations of the former con-man and pseudo-Psychic Patrick Janeain, gilded with top charisma and readiness. Working as a police consultant, Janeain follows the serial killer known as the row Johnon who killed his wife and daughter.

Think of it as a "psycho", but a real drama instead of a criminal comedy - a strange coincidence as shows have been overlapping on TV for several years. While Baker earned a great deal of fame for his performance, she even got nominated for primarily Emmy in 2009 (Brian Cranston's loss for "Breaking Bad"), he was not so active Because the "mentalist" ended in 2015. However, if you haven't seen him lately, you may have been looking at the wrong places. Baker has appeared in a number of lower -profile films and shows in the last 10 years, including the Apple TV+ Anthology series "Roar", "Boy's Boy" on Netflix in 2024 and a bunch of projects produced in his native Australia.

His accent in "Mentalist", as well as in Hollywood films such as "Margin Call" and "Devavol wears Prada", It's so convincing that many American fans may not even realize that Simon Baker is an Australian. But as the show ended in 2015, it worked almost exclusively in the native country of a wide range of films and shows.

Just two years after the "mentalist" final, in 2017, Baker directed, co-wrote and starred in the Australian drama film "Breath". He followed that multi -talented turnaround by performing other Aussie films as the historical drama in 2020 "High Earth" and the 2023 Limbo thriller, both also Starwar Baker on the screen. In the middle, he returned to Hollywood in 2018 to act against Sarah Essesica Parker in "Here and Now", and he was supposed to do so again in the upcoming adaptation of Taika Waititi to the scientific novel by Kazuo Ishiguro "Clara and the Sun".

On television, Baker has also worked mostly in Australia since the "mentalist", although some have received greater international attention through streaming editions. These include the aforementioned "World World Lights", as well as the Prime Minister in 2025, "the narrow road to the deep north", led by the rise of Hollywood supermitwoman Jacekob Elordi.

In a profile of 2025 for Eskeir AustraliaBaker discussed how much he enjoyed returning to Australia in 2016, after his "mentalist" obligations ended. "When I lived in the states, I was often asked what I missed it the most," he said of the exit. "And the immediate, the visceral feeling was, you know, how I felt on a rainy morning at the end of March. It was the smell of the ocean, those things." He explained that returning home was a "grounding" for him, which is probably a large part of why most of his work has been on Australian soil ever. The other part was the desire to be an actor, instead of a Starwar, with all the additional requirements and luggage that brings the main fame.

"Most of the big stars these days are pretty good that they are famous," Baker told Eskeir Australia. "I was never able to do it. I never felt completely convinced to plunge into it completely and I would go," I'll be a big, bright, shiny starvet and I will do the things you need to do. "

In the same interview, Baker explained that he went out of the spotlight deliberately after the "mentalist" to give his career some space to breathe. That decision has led to the kind of work he has been doing for years, and to hear him say, he is happier than ever.