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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 .
David Austin is also a songwriter, musician and producer. He has released several solo projects as well as material with his former band Stark Raven. David Austin appears as the guest bassist on The Feckers [3] song (and also appears in the subsequent video) "Music Keeps Me Sane". David has written and recorded with The Feckers members Chris Szkup and Richard Anderson on several songs that appeared on his solo album "A Changing Sky", as well as demos that exist of other unreleased Austin-Szkup-Anderson songs.
Neil Mullane Finn is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and musician. He is best known for being a principal member of Split Enz, of which he shared lead duties with his brother Tim, and the lead singer, guitarist, and a founding member of Crowded House. He was also a member of Fleetwood Mac from 2018 until 2022. Ed O'Brien of Radiohead has hailed Finn as popular music's "most prolific writer of great songs".
Sir David Joseph Dobbyn is a New Zealand musician, singer–songwriter and record producer. In his early career he was a member of the rock group Th' Dudes and was the main creative force in pop band DD Smash. Since then he has released the majority of his recordings as a solo performer.
Philip Bruce Goff is a New Zealand politician and diplomat. He currently serves as High Commissioner of New Zealand to the United Kingdom since 2023. He was a member of the New Zealand Parliament from 1981 to 1990 and again from 1993 to 2016. He served as leader of the Labour Party and leader of the Opposition between 11 November 2008 and 13 December 2011.
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Dimmer was the name under which New Zealand musician Shayne Carter recorded and played music from 1994. It began as an umbrella name for jam sessions and short-lived band line-ups, then home recordings, then an ensemble with various members and guests. This evolution led to more settled four-piece rock band. At least 41 musicians have been acknowledged as playing a part in Dimmer over 18 years, with Carter the only permanent fixture.
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Joseph Francis Karam, also known by the nickname of "Clock", is a New Zealand former representative rugby footballer who played for the All Blacks. After retiring from rugby, he became a businessman. However, he is most notable for waging a successful 15-year campaign to have David Bain's convictions for murder overturned, and a subsequent campaign seeking compensation for him.
Charlotte Lucy Cleverley-Bisman is a New Zealander known as the face of a New Zealand campaign to encourage vaccination against meningococcal disease after contracting and surviving severe meningococcal sepsis. She was nicknamed "Miraculous Baby Charlotte" by her fellow New Zealanders as a result of making headlines worldwide after recuperating from a series of life-threatening complications. She is the daughter of Pam Cleverley and Perry Bisman.
Roy Harwood Billing is a New Zealand television actor, now based on Waiheke Island, New Zealand. He was brought up in Ruawai, Northland, New Zealand. Billing spent almost three decades living and working in Australia. He became widely known for his role as organised-crime boss “Aussie Bob” Trimbole in the TV series Underbelly.
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On 7 November 2011, eighteen-year-old Christie Alexis Lesley Marceau was stabbed to death by eighteen-year-old Akshay Anand Chand at her home in Hillcrest, Auckland, New Zealand. The murder came after Chand had kidnapped and assaulted Marceau in September 2011, and while awaiting trial on the charges, was bailed by the court to an address just 300 metres (1,000 ft) from Marceau's home, despite calls from Christie and the police to not grant bail. Chand was subsequently charged with Marceau's murder, but on 17 October 2012 was acquitted of her murder by reason of insanity. He was subsequently sentenced to three years imprisonment for kidnapping and was committed to a psychiatric hospital indefinitely.
Morgana O'Reilly is a New Zealand film, television and theatre actress. She has appeared in several theatre productions and created the one-woman play The Height of the Eiffel Tower, which she performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2014. O'Reilly played Lynn Matthews in the biographical television film Billy and starred as Kylie Bucknell in the horror-comedy Housebound. She has made appearances in Nothing Trivial, Sunny Skies, This is Littleton. O'Reilly played Naomi Canning in Neighbours from 2013 until 2015. She made guest appearances in 2020 and 2022. She starred in sitcom Mean Mums and joined the cast of Wentworth as Narelle Stang in 2019. O'Reilly and her husband Peter Salmon created the comedy-thriller INSiDE, which won the International Emmy Award for Best Short-Form Series in 2021.
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