[2] After a failed audition for NIDA in 1992, he eventually did a three-year course at the Queensland University of Technology in acting,[3] at their Academy of the Arts.

[citation needed] In 2007 he starred as Othello for Bell Shakespeare, a show that toured Australia with stops at Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra as well as other cities.

[citation needed] In 2008 Blair directed all thirteen episodes of the Australian children's TV series Double Trouble, about twin Indigenous girls separated at birth.

2010 saw Blair direct four episodes of the Australian-British children's supernatural comedy TV series, Dead Gorgeous.

[7] He was also chosen in the same year as one of the stars of the Sydney Theatre Company's revival of Sam Shepard's True West, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman.

[8] Blair was awarded the Bob Maza Fellowship for 2011 by Screen Australia to provide opportunities for career development.

[9] 2012 was a big year which saw the making of his hit film, The Sapphires, which brought him recognition around the world with a very positive response at Cannes.

[10] He has occasionally worked on projects outside of Australia, including 2015's Septembers of Shiraz; a US production shot in Bulgaria, and a 2017 made for television remake of the American classic Dirty Dancing.