Erryn Arkin is an Australian actor involved in film and television. A graduate of the University of NSW, he also completed training at the National Institute of Dramatic Art

National Institute of Dramatic Art

The National Institute of Dramatic Art is an Australian national training institute for students of theatre, film, and television, based in the Sydney suburb of Kensington. It is supported by the federal Office for the Arts, Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. NIDA is located adjacent...

 (NIDA) in Sydney.

Originally performing in various stage productions, Arkin's professional career began in Australian television and he has since worked regularly on series such as Home and Away

Home and Away

Home and Away is an Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney since July 1987 and is airing on the Seven Network since 17 January 1988. It is the second-longest-running drama and most popular soap opera on Australian television...

and Fox's acclaimed Crime Investigation

Crime Investigation Australia

Crime Investigation Australia is an Australian true-crime series that first premiered on Foxtel's Crime & Investigation Network in August 2005. The series is also rebroadcast on the Nine Network, and made its debut there on 14 August 2007. The host of the series is Steve Liebmann.-Production:The...

, in which Arkin played a lead role from 2009.

After moving to the United States, Arkin starred in Followed, with Edith Ivey (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (film)

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a 2008 American fantasy-drama film directed by David Fincher. The screenplay by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord is loosely based on the 1922 short story of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald...

). Followed was based on the story by Hugo Award

Hugo Award

The Hugo Awards are given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The award is named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and was officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards...

-winning author Will McIntosh

Will McIntosh

Will McIntosh is a Hugo-Award-winning science fiction author. He has published dozens of short stories in magazines such as Asimov's Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, Daily Science Fiction, and Interzone. His stories are also frequently reprinted in different "Year's Best" anthologies...

 and directed by James Kicklighter

James Kicklighter

James Kicklighter is an American film producer, writer, and director from the small village of Bellville, Georgia.He was recognized by Heather Huhman's series in the National Edition of Examiner.com...

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Arkin is reported to have tested for Universal Pictures in a starring role in The Bourne Legacy

Bourne (film series)

The Bourne films are a series of dramatic films based on the character Jason Bourne, a former CIA assassin suffering from extreme memory loss, created by author Robert Ludlum. All three of Ludlum's novels were adapted for the screen, featuring Matt Damon as the titular character in each...

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Recent Filmography

• Cell/Phone
• Followed
• Equilateral
• Crime Investigation
  Crime Investigation Australia
  Crime Investigation Australia is an Australian true-crime series that first premiered on Foxtel's Crime & Investigation Network in August 2005. The series is also rebroadcast on the Nine Network, and made its debut there on 14 August 2007. The host of the series is Steve Liebmann.-Production:The...
  
  
• Home and Away
  Home and Away
  Home and Away is an Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney since July 1987 and is airing on the Seven Network since 17 January 1988. It is the second-longest-running drama and most popular soap opera on Australian television...