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- Pana Hema Taylor is known for Spartacus (2010), Boy (2010) and Westside (2015). He was previously married to Danielle Cormack.
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Stephen Grey is known for M3GAN (2022), Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) and We Are Still Here (2022).- Writer
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John Banas has, for over forty years, worked extensively in New Zealand, Australia and the United States. As far back as 1984 he received a New Zealand industry award for Best Script. He is also a recipient of the Prix Italia for Best Educational Script and, in 1997 and 2001 won the Australian Writers Guild Awards for Best Script in a Television Series. In 2012 John wrote the Underbelly NZ Series - 'Land of the Long Green Cloud' and the telemovies 'Siege' and 'Safe House' both of which were nominated as best dramas in the 2012 Screen Writers Awards, New Zealand. 'Siege' won Best Drama at the NZ Television Awards and was the People's Choice for Best on The Box. It also won a Golden Panda Award. (China) His screenplay 'How To Murder Your Wife' won Best Comedy at the 2015 New York International Film Festival and Britain's C21 Drama Award for best television drama. John has written over 200 hours of television, including six telemovies based on true stories. His work has been published in Australia and New Zealand (Top Shelf - Currency Press). His scriptwriter, director and producer credits include award-winning shows such as 'City Homicide' which he co-created with John Hugginson and for which he wrote over thirty episodes; 'Headland', 'All Saints', 'Blue Heelers', 'Stingers', 'Murder Call', 'Water Rats', and the Miss Phryne Fisher Murder Mysteries'. John was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal in the 2001 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to Australian society through writing for television. He lives and works in Brisbane.- Actor
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Jamie Irvine is known for Power Rangers Dino Fury (2021), The Brokenwood Mysteries (2014) and Sweet Tooth (2021).- Actor
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Born into an acting family in Auckland, New Zealand, Joel made his first stage appearance with his mother, Liddy Holloway, at age 5. With his solid grounding in theatre, he has appeared in many stage productions, covering all genres from Shakespeare to Musical Theatre. His nearly two dozen film appearances, ranging from whimsical comedy to intense drama and modern horror, has seen him work extensively both in New Zealand and Australia. In 1997, he won Best Actor in the NZ Film & TV Awards for Topless Women Talk About Their Lives (1997). Joel's television career has been equally as wide ranging, appearing regularly in many New Zealand dramas and comedy shows, including the Xena: Warrior Princess (1995), Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995) and Young Hercules (1998) series and, most recently, "Underbelly: Land of the Long Green Cloud" (2011)_ and the popular This Is Not My Life (2010). Joel has also taken his talents to the USA, guest starring in Sons of Anarchy (2008), The Glades (2010), Hawaii Five-0 (2010), A.K.A. (2006) and Without a Trace (2002), and Australia, playing the lead roles in the critically-acclaimed drama, Tangle (2009), and the comedy, :30 Seconds (2009), which saw him nominated for the Most Outstanding Performance By an Actor award at the 2010 Australian Subcription Television & Radio Association Awards in Australia. Joel has also worked as a singer and guitarist over the years, playing and singing in bands, both in New Zealand and Australia. Over the years, Joel has developed a range of other skills with voice work, radio, improvisation, Theatresports, dance and choreography.- Actor
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Charles Mesure was born Wednesday, August 12, 1970, in Somerset, England. When he was five, his family moved to Australia and he grew up in Sydney.
He studied law at Sydney University and was very active in SUDS, the school's dramatic society. He sang tenor in an a capella group called Cinco. After he graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in Sydney in 1995, he moved to New Zealand where he soon got his first TV gig on "City Life." He also acted in plays at the Court and Circa theatres. He won Best Supporting Actor in 2003 for his role as DSS Kees Van Dam on "Street Legal."
In 2004 he moved to the US and had guest roles on several hit series, notably 12 episodes of "Crossing Jordan" (including the landmark 100th episode) and two episodes of "Without a Trace." Both featured him in season-ending cliffhangers.
In 2008, he returned to New Zealand for major roles in three series. He was nominated Best Actor in the TV Guide "Best on the Box" People's Choice Awards for his recurring role in "Outrageous Fortune." His character, Detective Sergeant Zane Gerard, was responsible for the biggest cliffhanger in NZ TV history. The second series, the award-winning family adventure "Kaitangata Twitch" with Charles as dad Carey Gallagher, finished its 13-episode run in July 2010. The same month, the complex mystery "This Is Not My Life" began 13 episodes with Charles in the lead as Alec Ross, a man who suspects his perfect family and life aren't for real.
Charles returned to the US in 2009 and was cast in "V" in the recurring role of mercenary Kyle Hobbes. He was a regular on the second season that ended in March 2011.
In July 2011, Charles was cast in the role of Ben Faulkner on the eighth and final season of "Desperate Housewives." Ben was Australian, a self-made construction millionaire, a man both charming and ruthless, who moved to Wisteria Lane and was immediately claimed by Renee Perry -- "Dibs!" In the last episode of the series, Ben and Renee got married.
In 2013, Charles traveled to South Africa to play a drunken American playboy in "Marple: A Caribbean Mystery," based on Agatha Christie's book, and to Miami for a final-season episode of "Burn Notice" where he was a criminal computer expert.
In January 2014, Charles filmed an action role in an episode of "The Mentalist." Immediately afterward, he flew to Vancouver to play the role of Blackbeard in "Once Upon a Time," sharing scenes with Colin O'Donoghue's fellow pirate Captain Hook. On Twitter, he described Blackbeard's costume as the coolest he'd ever worked in.- Actress
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Keisha Castle-Hughes was born on 24 March 1990 in Donnybrook, Western Australia, Australia. She is an actress and producer, known for Whale Rider (2002), The Nativity Story (2006) and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005).