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| Born | David Mark Austin 19 January 1967 |
David Austin (born 1967) is a New Zealand-based actor.
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| Born | David Mark Austin 19 January 1967 |
David Austin (born 1967) is a New Zealand-based actor.
austin's family moved to New Zealand when he was 8 months old and settled in the Auckland suburb of Manurewa. He left school at 15, serving an apprenticeship in Fitting at the Otahuhu Railway Workshops. During the nineties David worked in various jobs, including shoe repair, carpentry and anodising. In 2004, Austin quit full-time work to study Multimedia at SAE Institute in Auckland and set up his own web design business the following year. In 2007, he took up acting, becoming the frightening face of New Zealand road safety [1] in a series of ads on intersections [2] and in 2009 played Medicus in the Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand .
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