Career
He is best known for portraying Óin, brother of Glóin in the 2012-2014 The Hobbit film trilogy. He has performed in movies, including The Rainbow Warrior, and television shows, including The Tribe, and lent his voice to Power Rangers Jungle Fury. He has performed in Goodbye Pork Pie, Pictures, Send a Gorilla, Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior (as Prime Minister David Lange), Feathers of Peace, Fly (Best Actor in a Short Film), Treasure Island Kids (x3), Love Birds in 2010 (with Sally Hawkins and Rhys Darby), and many television series and films including Close to Home, Pioneer Women, Roche, Moynihan, 221B Baker Street, Xena – Amazon High (with Selma Blair and Karl Urban), The Manitoba Who Lost His Head (with Martin Clunes), and Bliss (2010).
He has also directed many works for television including Shortland Street, The Tribe, Epitaph, Taonga, and The Kiwi Who Saved Britain (2010).
He has appeared in a number of television commercials and voiced more than 120 documentaries and thousands of commercials.