Acting
After completing a Media Arts degree at Deakin University, Clausen went on to secure the role of Aaron Symonds in the ABC series Head Start in 2001. [2] The following year, he began appearing in McLeod's Daughters as Jake Harrison, a love interest for Becky Howard (Jessica Napier). [3] [4] In 2024, Clausen revealed that he still received fan mail from fans overseas. [3] He said "There are very few jobs that people still talk about 20 years later. I was only a very small part of that – I'm sure there are a large portion of McLeod's Daughters fans who are like, 'Who?'" [3]
Clausen played Alex Kirby in the final two seasons of police drama series Blue Heelers from 2005 until 2006. It was his first lead role. [4] In 2008, Clausen and his partner Gemma Lee, a director, co-founded Blackberry Films, which has produced commercials, short films and music videos. [2] Clausen also played Jay Duncan in the Network Ten soap opera Neighbours . The character was introduced as a love interest for Stephanie Scully (Carla Bonner) and was responsible for causing the death of Marco Silvani (Jesse Rosenfeld) in a Bush fire. [5]
In 2012, Clausen joined the main cast of the Seven Network soap opera Home and Away following a successful audition. [2] He was cast as prison education officer Zac MacGuire. He was contracted for three years and began filming almost immediately. [2] Clausen chose to leave Home and Away after four years and Zac's departure aired in May 2017. Clausen was pleased with his character's exit storyline, which saw Zac leave for a fresh start after a divorce. [6] That same year, Clausen appeared in the second season of Wolf Creek . [7]
In 2024, Clausen joined Channel 9's travel series Getaway. [8] On 28 August 2025, it was announced that Clausen had joined the cast of miniseries Imposter . [9]
Podcasts
From July 2010 to September 2012, Clausen collaborated on a free weekly podcast, TOFOP (aka 30 Odd Foot of Pod), with comedian Wil Anderson. TOFOP was placed on indefinite hiatus when Clausen began filming on Home and Away as the Seven Network deemed it a conflict of interest. [10] Anderson then started another similar podcast called FOFOP (as in "faux TOFOP"), with various comedians and personalities featured as "Guest Charlies". Anderson and Clausen reunited for a live show as part of the 2014 Melbourne Comedy Festival, co-starring several Guest Charlies. [11] On 1 June 2014, Clausen returned to the podcast.
In February 2015, Clausen launched his own solo podcast That's Aweson, [12] The title referring to an episode of TOFOP in which Clausen tried to convince Anderson that his surname rhymed with "awesome."
In 2015, Clausen and Anderson launched an AFL themed podcast 2 Guys 1 Cup. [12] The name referring to the fact that Clausen's St Kilda Football Club and Anderson's Western Bulldogs had one AFL/VFL premiership each.
In 2019, he began co-hosting DadPod with Osher Gunsberg after they both became fathers around the same time. [4]
