Brian Rooney (born 2 November 1972) is a Northern Irish-born Australian actor with film, television and stage credits.
Both Handley and Rooney were told by the show's celebrity judge, Adelaide based TV and radio personality Anne Wills, that they should try acting as they had the "face for television".
Soon after, he went on to play the character Tommy Franco, alongside Dolph Lundgren and Louis Gossett Jr., in the 1989 feature film The Punisher.
[2] As a child actor, Rooney became best known on Australian television during the early 1990s for his long-running role of Michael Winters in the ABC-TV series G.P.,[3] and as Brendan Maloney in the 1991 miniseries Brides of Christ.
[5] More recently Rooney played the role of Cedric in the 2001 children's television series Escape of the Artful Dodger.