[3] Baines attended The McDonald College of Performing Arts in North Strathfield, New South Wales where he studied drama, music and dance.
[citation needed] In 2008, Baines auditioned during a six-month nationwide casting search for the West End production of Spring Awakening the musical.
The film follows troubled 17-year-old Sean Holloway (Myko Olivier) who falls in with a group of teenage outcasts called 'The Misfits,' whose charismatic and deeply dysfunctional leader, Ricky Gladstone (Baines), takes him under his wing.
[1] In 2016, Deadline Hollywood announced that Baines would be joining Andrew Garfield and Riley Keogh in David Robert Mitchell's Under the Silver Lake.
[7] Baines has appeared in several TV shows, including Shadowhunters where he portrayed the reincarnated Jonathan Morgenstern, Clary's brother, in Season 3b.