Early and personal life
Wall was born in Auckland and grew up in Wellington. [1] [2] Wall spent three years completing a bachelor's degree in journalism. Six months after graduating, he decided to pursue a career in acting and won a scholarship to the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City. [3]
Wall has been in a relationship with actress Jessica Grace Smith since 2010. The couple live in Sydney. [4] Wall and Smith got engaged in November 2019, [5] and they married in New Zealand on 8 February 2020. [6] In July 2021, they announced they were expecting their first child. [7]
Career
Wall played Ben on Outrageous Fortune in 2007. [1] He also had roles in The Amazing Extraordinary Friends , Reckless Behavior: Caught on Tape and John Safran's Race Relations . [8] In 2011, Wall received an audition for the medical soap opera Shortland Street and he was cast in the recurring role of ED consultant Owen Sutherland. [1] The following year, he starred in the short film Ten Thousand Days, alongside Morgana O'Reilly. [9] He also made a guest appearance in Underbelly: Badness . [10]
Wall portrayed Breaker Morant in Breaker Morant: The Retrial, a television documentary filmed in Charters Towers. [2] He starred as pirate radio host Rick Grant in the 2014 docudrama Pirates of the Airwaves, which tells the story of the founding of Radio Hauraki. [11] The following year, he appeared in James Raue's low budget feature film Psychoanalysis. [12] He was also cast in the Australian feature film The Pretend One, alongside Geraldine Hakewill and David Field. The film was shot in Queensland and released in 2016. [13]
Wall and fellow actor Tai Hara co-wrote the black comedy film Best Mates. Wall also directed and acted in the short, alongside Hara and Jessica Grace Smith. Best Mates received a nomination for Best Live Action Short Film at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. [14] [15]
In 2016, Wall took over the role of Duncan Stewart in Home and Away . The character had not been part of the show for ten years. [16] Wall had auditioned for Home and Away several times before he was cast as Duncan. He received a recall for the part of Martin Ashford, [3] and he also auditioned for the role of Justin Morgan. [16] In the same year, Wall appeared in the miniseries Brock as Tony Roberts. [17] Wall plays the role of Jones in 2020 television drama Operation Buffalo , a friend of Major Leo Carmichael played by Ewen Leslie. [18]
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