He worked as a jackaroo and shearer after attending Geelong Grammar School, before going abroad, travelling to India, the United Kingdom, Los Angeles, and South Carolina.
[4] After returning to Australia, Long successfully auditioned for a place at the National Institute of Dramatic Art,[5] graduating in 1994.
Long played Brenden Abbott in the 2003 telemovie The Postcard Bandit and appeared in the film The Book of Revelation.
[6] He also appeared in The Last of the Ryans,[7] Doing Time for Patsy Cline,[8] Do or Die,[9] Risk,[10] Heroes' Mountain: The Thredbo Story,[11] Black Jack: Ghosts,[12] Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback,[13] and East of Everything,[14] and Woodley.
[15] Long stopped acting after he collapsed on stage during a performance of the play Coranderrk: We Will Show the Country at the Sydney Opera House in July 2012.