His roles include Rhys Levitt in the Australian police drama City Homicide, Prince Frederik in the telemovie Mary: The Making of a Princess, and Riley Hawkins in Home and Away.
[2] In 2000, he began attending the University of Otago, where he studied a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Psychology.
[4] He went on to portray a police officer in a production of The Hothouse, before joining the cast of Australian drama City Homicide as Detective Senior Constable Rhys Levitt in 2010.
[3] O'Kane played cricketer Bob Blair in Tangiwai: A Love Story and protester Des Oram the telemovie Rage.
O'Kane met actor and make-up artist Jazmyne van Gosliga on the set of Pirates of the Airwaves in 2013.