He is most noted for playing ambulance driver Rangi Heremaia on New Zealand's longest-running soap opera, Shortland Street, between 1995 and 2001 and Brian King on Nothing Trivial from 2011 to 2014.
[1][2] Born to a Pākehā father of Scottish descent and a Māori mother,[3] he attended Saint Kentigern College, Pakuranga, where he was Head Prefect.
He completed filming Māori Television's new family drama, Kaitangata Twitch, which is an adaptation of the children's book by author, Margaret Mahy.
He has also completed a successful New Zealand tour of the theatre piece, Whero's New Net and co starred in the TV drama Nothing Trivial and Homeland.
He has an LLB from the University of Auckland, majoring in entertainment law,[5] and is a practising family lawyer in Albany at North Shore Legal Chambers.