Henry Nixon is an Australian actor. Nixon was born at St Margaret's Hospital in the inner-Sydney suburb of Surry Hills. As a child he lived in Elanora Heights, Paddington and Wollstonecraft in Sydney with his father, Gerald Nixon, a Recording Engineer and his mother, Vanessa, a Nurse. After their divorce Nixon relocated (with his mother and step father) from Sydney to the Burra Valley, near Canberra. He was educated in Canberra at AME School, Red Hill Primary, Canberra Grammar School and then Narrabundah College, where he studied drama.