Early life

Born in Auckland, New Zealand; he has a brother named Brett. He attended Rangitoto College

Rangitoto College

Rangitoto College is the largest secondary school in New Zealand with over 3,000 students as of 2007. The Correspondence School has more enrolled secondary students, but fewer full-time equivalent secondary students....

 and earned a black belt in karate

Karate

is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Islands in what is now Okinawa, Japan. It was developed from indigenous fighting methods called and Chinese kenpō. Karate is a striking art using punching, kicking, knee and elbow strikes, and open-handed techniques such as knife-hands. Grappling, locks,...

 by the age of ten.

Career

Got his start in the television movie, The Rogue Stallion at the age of fourteen, and Raider of the South Seas, both of which were released in 1990. He then won the role of Nurse Harry Martin in the New Zealand soap opera, Shortland Street

Shortland Street

Shortland Street is a New Zealand prime-time soap opera, first broadcast on Television New Zealand's TV2 on 25 May 1992. It is the country's longest-running drama and soap opera, being broadcast continuously for over 4500 episodes and 19 years, and is one of the most watched television programs in...

and has appeared in both Hercules an d Xena multiple times, as well as a recurring role as young Iolaus in Young Hercules, co-starring Ryan Gosling

Ryan Gosling

Ryan Thomas Gosling is a Canadian actor and musician. He first came to public attention as a child star on the Disney Channel's Mickey Mouse Club and went on to appear in other family entertainment programmes including Are You Afraid of the Dark? , Goosebumps , Breaker High and Young Hercules...

. .

More recently, he has made multiple guest appearances on shows such as, The Cult, Go Girls and Legend of the Seeker and currently plays the role of Anders Johnson on The Almighty Johnsons. In April 2011 he was cast as Fili in Peter Jackson's

Peter Jackson

Sir Peter Robert Jackson, KNZM is a New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter, known for his The Lord of the Rings film trilogy , adapted from the novel by J. R. R...

 upcoming film The Hobbit.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990		Tony Garrett	TV movie
1990	Raider of the South Seas	Bobby Morrison	TV movie
1995	Bonjour Timothy	Timothy Taylor
1995	Hercules: The Legendary Journeys Hercules: The Legendary Journeys Hercules: The Legendary Journeys is a television series, filmed in New Zealand and the United States. It was produced from 1995, and was very loosely based on the tales of the classical Greek culture hero Heracles...	Iloran	Episode: "The Gauntlet"
1996	Xena: Warrior Princess Xena: Warrior Princess Xena: Warrior Princess is an American–New Zealand supernatural fantasy adventure series that aired in syndication from September 4, 1995 until June 18, 2001....	Homer / Orion	Episode: "Athens City Academy of the Performing Bards"
1996	Return to Treasure Island	Jim Hawkins	TV movie
1996	Siren	Siren	Short film
1996	Shortland Street Shortland Street Shortland Street is a New Zealand prime-time soap opera, first broadcast on Television New Zealand's TV2 on 25 May 1992. It is the country's longest-running drama and soap opera, being broadcast continuously for over 4500 episodes and 19 years, and is one of the most watched television programs in...	Nurse Harry Martin	TV series
1997	Doom Runners Doom Runners Doom Runners is an Australian science fiction television children's film.The story concerns a group of children in a post-apocalyptic world searching for the last unpolluted place on Earth, New Eden. However, the Doom Troopers , led by Dr. Kao , want to get there first and will do anything to stop...	Deek	Video
1997	Hercules: The Legendary Journeys Hercules: The Legendary Journeys Hercules: The Legendary Journeys is a television series, filmed in New Zealand and the United States. It was produced from 1995, and was very loosely based on the tales of the classical Greek culture hero Heracles...	Young Iolaus Ruun	Episode: "Regrets... I've Had a Few Regrets... I've Had a Few "Regrets... I've Had a Few" is the third episode of the fourth season in the television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.-Overview:Celesta, the goddess of death, comes for Jaris, an old childhood friend of Hercules... " Episode: "Prodigal Sister Prodigal Sister "Prodigal Sister" is the seventh episode of the fourth season in the television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.-Overview:Hercules helps reunite a blind teenager with his long-lost sister, who was kidnapped years ago by a group of renegade Amazons.-Plot synopsis:A gang of renegade Amazons... "
1998	Hercules: The Legendary Journeys Hercules: The Legendary Journeys Hercules: The Legendary Journeys is a television series, filmed in New Zealand and the United States. It was produced from 1995, and was very loosely based on the tales of the classical Greek culture hero Heracles...	Young Iolaus	Episode: "Medea Culpa Medea Culpa "Medea Culpa" is the 11th episode of the fourth season of the television series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.-Overview:While on a fishing trip, Hercules, Iolaus and Jason reminisce about the time when they met Medea and fought the fire-breathing monster, Ghidra.-Plot synopsis:Hercules, Iolaus... " Episode: "Twilight"
1998		Andrew Scott	TV movie
1998	Young Hercules Young Hercules Young Hercules is a spin-off from Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. It was aired on Fox Kids from September 12, 1998, to May 12, 1999. It lasted one season with 50 episodes and starred Ryan Gosling in the title role.-Plot:...	Young Iolaus	Video
1998	When Love Comes Along	Mark
1998		Darek	Episode: "The Tomb of the Unknown Warrior"
1998-1999	Young Hercules Young Hercules Young Hercules is a spin-off from Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. It was aired on Fox Kids from September 12, 1998, to May 12, 1999. It lasted one season with 50 episodes and starred Ryan Gosling in the title role.-Plot:...	Iolaus	45 episodes
1999	Fearless	Cliff	TV movie
1999	Big Sky	Dean	Episode: "A Family Affair"
1999	Duggan Duggan (TV series) Duggan was a TVNZ police drama from 1997, featuring New Zealand actor John Bach as Detective Inspector John Duggan and Fiona Mogridge as Ruth Duggan. Unlike other New Zealand police drama series, Duggan was produced as a series of one-off programmes, akin to British crime series of the time such as...	Fergus MacLllwaine	Episode: "Going Overboard"
2000	Xena: Warrior Princess Xena: Warrior Princess Xena: Warrior Princess is an American–New Zealand supernatural fantasy adventure series that aired in syndication from September 4, 1995 until June 18, 2001....	Wiglaf	Episode: "Return of the Valkyrie"
2000	Little Samurai		Short film
2001	Lawless: Beyond Justice	Nat	TV movie
2001	Snakeskin Snakeskin (film) Snakeskin is an award-winning New Zealand film directed by Gillian Ashurst. The story focuses on Alice and her best friend Johnny , who embark on a road trip across New Zealand. Along the way they pick up a hitch-hiker named Seth , who is on the run from a gang of skinheads and a group of drug...	Johnny
2002	Toy Love Toy Love (film) Toy Love is a New Zealand made film released in 2003. The film was directed and written by Harry Sinclair and features Dean O'Gorman, Kate Elliott, Marissa Stott, Michael Lawrence, Genevieve McClean, Chris Dykzeul, Peter Feeney, Quinton Hita, Miriama Smith, Kim Michalis, Rose McIver and Lynette...	Ben
2003	Farscape Farscape Farscape is an Australian-American science fiction television series filmed in Australia and produced originally for the Nine Network. The series was conceived by Rockne S. O'Bannon and produced by Jim Henson Productions and Hallmark Entertainment...	Zukash	Episode: "We're So Screwed: Part 2: Hot to Katratzi" Episode: "We're So Screwed: Part 3: La Bomba"
2003	MDA	Peter Jarman	Episode: "Judgement Day" Episode: "St. Crispin's Day"
2004	Serial Killers	Andrew / Dr. Gilligan	7 episodes
2004	Piggy	Confucius	Short film
2004-2005	McLeod's Daughters McLeod's Daughters McLeod's Daughters is a Logie award-winning Australian drama series that aired on the Nine Network from 2001 to 2009. It tells the story of two sisters, Claire and Tess McLeod, who are reunited after they inherit the family farm...	Luke Morgan	25 episodes
2007	Moonlight Moonlight (TV series) Moonlight was an American paranormal romance television drama created by Ron Koslow and Trevor Munson, who was also executive producer for all episodes with Joel Silver, Gerard Bocaccio, Gabrielle Stanton and Harry Werksman. The series follows private investigator Mick St...	Daniel	Episode: "No Such Thing as Vampires No Such Thing as Vampires "No Such Thing as Vampires" is the pilot episode of the American paranormal romance television drama Moonlight, which premiered on CBS on September 28, 2007 in the United States. It was written by series creators/executive producers Trevor Munson and Ron Koslow, and directed by executive producer... "
2007-2008	Animalia Animalia (TV series) Animalia is an Australian children's television series based on the 1986 picture book of the same name by illustrator Graeme Base.-Development:...	Tyrannicus Tiger / Herry Hog	4 episodes
2008		Rev. Whittaker
2009	Legend of the Seeker Legend of the Seeker Legend of the Seeker is a television series based on The Sword of Truth novels by Terry Goodkind. Distributed in U.S. by Disney-ABC Domestic Television, ABC Studios produced the series, which was its first foray into broadcast syndication, with Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert, Joshua Donen, Ned Nalle and...	Carver Dunn	Episode: "Deception"
2009	Go Girls Go Girls Go Girls is a New Zealand comedy/drama television series centering around four adult friends, Amy, Britta, Cody and Kevin, who live on the North Shore, Auckland...	Marco	Episode: "Signs and Obstacles" Episode: "Do the Right Thing"
2009	Sabotage	Bobby
2009		Liam	Episode: "1.10"
2010	Nights in the Gardens of Spain	Chris
2011		Anders Johnson	7+ episodes
2011	Tangiwai: A Love Story	Bert Sutcliffe Bert Sutcliffe Bert Sutcliffe MBE was a New Zealand Test cricketer. Sutcliffe was a successful left-hand batsman. His batting achievements on tour in England in 1949, which included four fifties and a century in the Tests, earned him the accolade of being one of Wisden's Five Cricketers of the Year...	TV movie; post-production
2012		Fíli	Filming
2013		Fíli	Filming