Top 100 Australian & New Zealand Actors

1. Oscar Asche

Oscar Asche was born on January 26, 1871 in Geelong, Australia. He was an actor and writer, known for Scrooge (1935), Chu Chin Chow (1934) and Don Quixote (1933). He was married to Lily Brayton. He died on March 23, 1936 in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.

2. Errol Flynn

Actor | The Adventures of Robin Hood

Errol Flynn was born to parents Theodore Flynn, a respected biologist, and Marrelle Young, an adventurous young woman. Young Flynn was a rambunctious child who could be counted on to find trouble. Errol managed to have himself thrown out of every school in which he was enrolled. In his late teens ...

3. Grant Taylor

Actor | On the Beach

Grant Taylor was born on December 6, 1917 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for On the Beach (1959), Four Desperate Men (1959) and 40,000 Horsemen (1940). He was married to Jean Ebsworth Bullen and Margaret Josephine Haslett. He died in 1971 in London, England, UK.

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4. Robert Helpmann

Actor | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Robert Murray Helpmann was born in Mount Gambier, Australia, as the eldest of three children born to stock and station agent James Murray Helpman and Mary Gardiner.

After the family moved to Adelaide in 1914, Helpmann was educated at Prince Alfred's College, but he soon left school at the age of 14 ...

5. Leo McKern

Actor | Ladyhawke

Although he sounded very British, Leo McKern was an Australian. By the time he was 15 years old, he had endured an accident that left him without his left eye. A glass eye replaced it - one might conjecture for the better, as far as making McKern a one-day actor of singular focus (no pun intended; ...

6. Ron Randell

Actor | King of Kings

The son of an accountant and the youngest of three boys, Ronald Egan Randell (pronounced Randall, not Ran-DELL) was born in Sydney on October 8, 1918, and began his six-decade-long career as a young teen on radio for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. He promptly moved to the stage and made ...

7. Rod Taylor

Actor | Inglourious Basterds

Suave and handsome Australian actor arrived in Hollywood in the 1950s, and built himself up from a supporting actor into taking the lead in several well-remembered movies. Arguably his most fondly remembered role was that as George (Herbert George Wells), the inventor, in George Pal's spectacular ...

8. Guy Doleman

Actor | Thunderball

Tough-looking New Zealander, with a long string of credits as an actor in Australian films and theatre. He was also prolific on radio as actor, announcer and compère. In August 1952, Doleman won a £300 prize for his performance in an Actor's Choice half-hourly play, entitled "The Coward". He used ...

9. George Lazenby

Actor | On Her Majesty's Secret Service

George Robert Lazenby was born September 5, 1939 in Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia, to Sheila Joan (Bodel) and George Edward Lazenby. He moved to London, England in 1964, after serving in the Australian Army. Before becoming an actor, he worked as an auto mechanic, used car salesman, prestige...

10. Chips Rafferty

Actor | Wake in Fright

Years before Jack Thompson arrived on the scene, Chips Rafferty was regarded by many as the personification of the stereotypically rugged, straightforward and laconic Aussie male. Tall and thin, though not particularly striking in appearance, Rafferty was a tailor-made star for the austere, ...

11. Lewis Fiander

Actor | ¿Quién puede matar a un niño?

Australian stage, screen and TV actor Lewis Fiander was educated at Trinity Grammar School and made his acting debut at the National Theatre in Melbourne in 1954. At the age of 18 he moved to Sydney to broaden his skills as a radio actor and in due course perfected a varied gallery of dialects and ...

12. Clive Revill

Actor | Avanti!

A grand, well-respected character lead and support of stage, film and television, most people mistakenly think New Zealander Clive Revill is British. A delightfully comic eccentric praised for his sterling work on the musical stage, the blue-eyed, curly, red-haired gent is also highly regarded for ...

13. Peter Finch

Actor | Network

Despite being one of the finest actors of his generation, Peter Finch will be remembered as much for his reputation as a hard-drinking, hell-raising womanizer as for his performances on the screen. He was born in London in 1916 and went to live in Sydney, Australia, at the age of ten. There, he ...

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14. Richard O'Brien

Actor | The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Born in Cheltenham, England, Richard Smith's family moved to Tauranga, New Zealand, in 1951 when his father, an accountant, decided to become a sheep farmer. Watching horror and science-fiction double features in nearby Hamilton, Smith added an interest in acting to his love of rock and roll. He ...

15. David Gulpilil

Actor | Rabbit-Proof Fence

David Gulpilil is a legendary Yolngu actor, a First Nations person of Northern Australia, born around 1953. The local missionaries gave him his birthdate of July 1, 1953, just as they gave him his Christian name David, although he admits he liked that name from the start. His last name, Gulpilil, ...

16. Frederick Parslow

Actor | The Last Wave

Frederick Parslow was born on August 14, 1932. He was an actor, known for The Last Wave (1977), Mission Top Secret (1993) and Neighbours (1985). He died on January 26, 2017 in Caulfield, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

17. Tommy Lewis

Actor | The Proposition

Tom E. Lewis was born and raised in South Eastern Arnhem Land, Northern Territory amongst the Murrungun tribe where today their lands are federally protected. For much of his early life he worked as a bricklayer and stockman in order to make ends meet. However this was only a front for his real ...

18. Steve Bisley

Actor | Mad Max

Popular Australian actor born in New South Wales, whose earlier film work typified the "Aussie larrikin" sterotype with his lively and animated acting style, blonde hair and lairish grin. Bisley broke into film alongside fellow NIDA graduate Mel Gibson in the surfie flick Summer City (1977), ...

19. Robert Grubb

Actor | Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

Robert Grubb was born on January 31, 1950 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. He is an actor, known for Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), Gallipoli (1981) and My Brilliant Career (1979).

20. Sam Neill

Actor | Jurassic Park

Sam Neill was born in Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, to army parents, an English-born mother, Priscilla Beatrice (Ingham), and a New Zealand-born father, Dermot Neill. His family moved to the South Island of New Zealand in 1954. He went to boarding schools and then attended the universities ...

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21. Bill Hunter

Actor | Gallipoli

Bill Hunter was one of Australia's acting legends, having worked with almost every notable Australian director and actor of the last thirty years - evidence of his genuine popularity among the public and acting fraternity alike.

He started out in Australian television in the '60s (a hotbed of well ...

22. Bill Kerr

Actor | Gallipoli

In the 1950s, Bill Kerr was one of Tony Hancock's regular sidekicks in the popular radio series 'Hancock's Half Hour'. In the first series he was smarter than Tony, but as the series progressed he became more and more stupid and childlike, regularly calling Tony 'Tubb'. Despite remaining on the ...

23. Mark Lee

Actor | Gallipoli

Mark Lee was born in 1958 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is an actor and director, known for Gallipoli (1981), The Bet (2006) and Paper Giants: Magazine Wars (2013).

24. David Warbeck

Actor | Giù la testa

New Zealand born actor David Warbeck made his feature film debut in My Lover, My Son (1970). Warbeck went pro following studies at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and during the 1970s became a popular European star of low-budget genre pictures made in Italy, the U.S. and England. His ...

25. Harold Hopkins

Actor | The Club

Harold Hopkins was born on March 6, 1944 in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia. He was an actor, known for The Club (1980), Gallipoli (1981) and Moby Dick (1998). He died on December 11, 2011 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

26. Max Phipps

Actor | Mad Max 2

Max Phipps was born on November 18, 1939 in Parkes, New South Wales, Australia. He was an actor, known for Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981), Nate and Hayes (1983) and Stir (1980). He died on August 6, 2000 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

27. Michael Preston

Actor | Mad Max 2

Michael Preston was born on May 14, 1938 in Hackney, London, England, UK. He is an actor, known for Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981), The Getaway (2002) and Homicide (1964).

28. Mel Gibson

Actor | Braveheart

Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson was born January 3, 1956 in Peekskill, New York, USA, as the sixth of eleven children of Hutton Gibson, a railroad brakeman, and Anne Patricia (Reilly) Gibson (who died in December of 1990). His mother was Irish, from County Longford, while his American-born father is ...

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29. Bruce Spence

Actor | Mad Max 2

Bruce Spence was born on September 17, 1945 in New Zealand. When he was growing up in Henderson, just out of Auckland, the last thing he ever expected to be was an actor. Bruce's family were winemakers, and he worked in the family winery from a very tender age, later attending Henderson High School...

30. Adam Cockburn

Actor | Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

Adam Cockburn is known for Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), Lorca and the Outlaws (1984) and The Girl Who Came Late (1992).

31. Jack Thompson

Actor | 'Breaker' Morant

Australian actor Jack Thompson was born John Hadley Payne on August 31, 1940 in Manly, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney. Outside of Oz, he is best known for his appearances in The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), Breaker Morant (1980), The Man from Snowy River (1982), Midnight in the Garden of...

32. Tom Burlinson

Actor | The Man from Snowy River

Actor and singer born on 14th February 1956 in Toronto, Canada, from English parents who had migrated to Canada after Word War II. The family transferred to New Jersey in 1958 and Tom was the typical all-American youngster with the Little League baseball cap, striped T-shirt and turned-up jeans. In...

33. Paul Hogan

Actor | Crocodile Dundee

Paul Hogan became a worldwide success with his irresistible comic performance in Crocodile Dundee (1986), which he created and co-wrote. This earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor as well as an Academy Award nomination (for Best Screenplay). The versatile actor got his start in Australian ...

34. Bryan Brown

Actor | Cocktail

Bryan Brown was born on June 23, 1947 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He is an actor and producer, known for Cocktail (1988), Breaker Morant (1980) and Two Hands (1999). He has been married to Rachel Ward since April 16, 1983. They have three children.

35. David Hoflin

Actor | Z: The Beginning of Everything

David Hoflin was born on February 25, 1979 in Stockholm, Sweden. He is an actor, known for Z: The Beginning of Everything (2015), Crossbones (2014) and Bosch (2014). He has been married to Natalie Hoflin since January 4, 2013.

36. Jon Darling

Actor | The Killing of Angel Street

Jon Darling is known for The Killing of Angel Street (1981), A Country Practice (1981) and Running on Empty (1982).

37. Tom Lycos

Actor | Home and Away

Tom Lycos is known for Home and Away (1988) and Sweetie (1989).

38. Colin Friels

Actor | Darkman

Colin Friels was born on September 25, 1952 in Kilwinning, Ayrshire, Scotland, UK. He is an actor, known for Darkman (1990), Water Rats (1996) and Dark City (1998). He has been married to Judy Davis since October 30, 1984. They have two children.

39. Martyn Sanderson

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Martyn Sanderson was born on February 24, 1938 in Granity, New Zealand. He was an actor and writer, known for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), Flying Fox in a Freedom Tree (1989) and The Harp in the South (1987). He was married to Wanjiku Kiare. He died on October 14, 2009 ...

40. Hugo Weaving

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Hugo Wallace Weaving was born on April 4, 1960 in Nigeria, to English parents Anne (Lennard), a tour guide and teacher, and Wallace Weaving, a seismologist. Hugo has an older brother, Simon, and a younger sister, Anna, who both also live and work in Australia. During his early childhood, the ...

41. Bruno Lawrence

Actor | The Quiet Earth

This New Zealander's oddly diverse talents made him a character star and cult icon there and in Australia in his relatively short life. Born in Sussex, England, on February 12, 1941, Bruno Lawrence (real name David Charles Lawrence) and his family settled in New Zealand when he was just a ...

42. Alwyn Kurts

Actor | Tim

One of Australia's most recognisable actors, Alwyn Kurts had previously been an accredited war correspondent, before becoming a notable figure in Melbourne radio in the 1950s via his program "Raising A Husband", and as an executive at radio station 3XY.

Shortly after television arrived in 1956, he ...

43. Chris Haywood

Actor | Sleeping Beauty

Chris Haywood was born on July 24, 1948 in Billericay, Essex, England, UK. He is an actor and production manager, known for Sleeping Beauty (2011), Muriel's Wedding (1994) and Quigley Down Under (1990).

44. Ben Mendelsohn

Actor | Rogue One

Despite his prominence in Hollywood as a character actor known for playing villains and criminals, Ben Mendelsohn has been a leading man in Australia since starting acting as a teenager.

Paul Benjamin Mendelsohn was born in Melbourne, Australia, to Carole Ann (Ferguson), a nurse, and Frederick ...

45. Paul Mercurio

Actor | Strictly Ballroom

Blame it on Elvis.

It was the lusty gyrations of The King in Jailhouse Rock that inspired nine-year-old Paul Joseph Mercurio to dance. His mother, Jean, responded with her usual supportive posture and enrolled Paul in a local ballet school.

From there (with a short surfing break) it was on to John ...

46. Barry Otto

Actor | Strictly Ballroom

Barry Otto was born in 1941 in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. He is an actor, known for Strictly Ballroom (1992), The Punisher (1989) and Rogue (2007).

47. Timothy Balme

Actor | Braindead

Timothy Balme was born on January 18, 1967. He is an actor and writer, known for Braindead (1992), The Brokenwood Mysteries (2014) and Mercy Peak (2001).

48. Kevin Smith

Actor | Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

He was born in Auckland, New Zealand and spent his early childhood there. His family moved to the small rural town of Timaru in New Zealand's South Island when he was 11. During high school, he began playing in rock-and-roll bands, but never aspired to a career as an actor. He had a passion for ...

49. Nicholas Hope

Actor | Bad Boy Bubby

Nicholas Hope is a British-Australian actor who is known for playing Bubby from Bad Boy Bubby and Old Man Smithers in the 2002 Raja Gosnell/James Gunn film Scooby-Doo. He also acted in Ash vs Evil Dead, a deleted scene of Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, The Daughter and Picnic at Hanging ...

50. Temuera Morrison

Self | Disney Gallery: Star Wars: The Book of Boba Fett

Temuera Derek Morrison is a New Zealand actor.

After training in drama under the New Zealand Special Performing Arts Training Scheme. One of his earliest starring roles was in the 1988 film Never Say Die, opposite Lisa Eilbacher. In 1994, he received attention for his role as the violent and abusive...

51. Julian Arahanga

Actor | The Matrix

Julian Arahanga was born on December 18, 1972 in Raetihi, New Zealand. He is a director and producer, known for The Matrix (1999), Once Were Warriors (1994) and Songs from the Inside. He has been married to Becs Arahanga since February 7, 2009. They have three children.

52. Taungaroa Emile

Actor | Once Were Warriors

Taungaroa Emile is known for Once Were Warriors (1994), Whale Rider (2002) and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995).

53. Justin Braine

Actor | Shine

Justin Braine is known for Shine (1996), Blue Heelers (1994) and The Life of Harry Dare (1995).

54. Jonathan Hyde

Actor | Titanic

Jonathan Hyde was born on May 21, 1948 in Brisbane, Australia. He is an actor, known for Titanic (1997), Anaconda (1997) and Jumanji (1995). He is married to Isobel Buchanan. They have two children.

55. Russell Crowe

Actor | Les Misérables

Russell Ira Crowe was born in Wellington, New Zealand, to Jocelyn Yvonne (Wemyss) and John Alexander Crowe, both of whom catered movie sets. His maternal grandfather, Stanley Wemyss, was a cinematographer. Crowe's recent ancestry includes Welsh (where his paternal grandfather was born, in Wrexham),...

56. Geoffrey Rush

Actor | The King's Speech

Geoffrey Roy Rush was born on July 6, 1951, in Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, to Merle (Bischof), a department store sales assistant, and Roy Baden Rush, an accountant for the Royal Australian Air Force. His mother was of German descent and his father had English, Irish, and Scottish ancestry. ...

57. Guy Pearce

Actor | Memento

Guy Edward Pearce was born October 5, 1967 in Cambridgeshire, England, UK to Margaret Anne and Stuart Graham Pearce. His father was born in Auckland, New Zealand, to English and Scottish parents, while Guy's mother is English. Pearce and his family initially traveled to Australia for two years, ...

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58. David Wenham

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

David Wenham is an Australian actor who is known for his portrayals of Faramir from The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Friar Carl from the Van Helsing franchise and Dilios from 300. He also acted in Moulin Rouge, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Dark City, Top of the Lake, SeaChange ...

59. Karl Urban

Actor | Star Trek

Originally from Wellington, New Zealand, Karl Urban now lives in Auckland. Born on June 7, 1972, he is the son of a leather-goods manufacturer (who had hoped that Karl would follow in his footsteps). His first acting role was when he was 8 -- he had a line on a television series. However, he did ...

60. John Noble

Actor | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Artistic Director of Stage Company of South Australia 1977 - 87. Head of Drama, Brent St. School of Arts (Sydney) 1997-00. Directed over 80 plays, including 'Sons of Cain' on London's West End (1986). Freelance actor. Semi-regular in TV series 'All Saints'. Voice and acting teacher.

61. Cliff Curtis

Actor | Risen

Cliff Curtis was born in Rotorua, New Zealand, on July 27, 1968.

He is of New Zealand Maori descent (with Ngati Hauiti and Te Arawa tribal affiliations). He enrolled at the New Zealand Drama School, and then the Teatro Dmitri Scuola in Switzerland.

After returning to New Zealand from Europe, he was ...

62. Rawiri Paratene

Actor | Whale Rider

Rawiri Paratene was born in Hokianga, New Zealand. He is known for Whale Rider (2002), Man-Thing (2005) and The Insatiable Moon (2010).

63. Mana Taumaunu

Actor | Whale Rider

Mana Taumaunu was born in 1989. He is an actor, known for Whale Rider (2002) and The Making of 'Whale Rider' (2003).

64. Grant Roa

Visual_effects | Rise of the Planet of the Apes

Grant Roa was born on June 2, 1974 in Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand. He is an actor, known for Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011), Alita: Battle Angel (2019) and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014).

65. Noah Taylor

Actor | Almost Famous

Noah George Taylor, the elder of two boys, was born in 1969 in London, England, to Maggie (Miller), a journalist and book editor, and Paul Taylor, a copywriter and journalist. His family lived in both England and New Zealand before returning to his parents' native Australia in 1974. His parents ...

66. Leigh Whannell

Actor | Saw

Leigh Whannell grew up in Melbourne, Australia, where, at the age of four, he developed an obsession with telling stories. Whether it be through acting, writing or filmmaking, his primary love was getting a reaction from an audience. In 1995, at the age of 18, he was accepted into the Royal ...

67. Heath Ledger

Actor | Brokeback Mountain

When hunky, twenty-year-old heart-throb Heath Ledger first came to the attention of the public in 1999, it was all too easy to tag him as a "pretty boy" and an actor of little depth. He spent several years trying desperately to sway this image, but this was a double-edged sword. His work comprised ...

68. Eric Bana

Actor | Dirty John

Eric Bana was born Eric Banadinovic on August 9, 1968, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is the younger of two brothers. His father, named Ivan Banadinovic, came from Zagreb, Croatia, and worked as a manager for Caterpillar Inc. His mother, named Eleanor Banadinovic, came from a German family ...

69. Hugh Jackman

Actor | Les Misérables

Hugh Michael Jackman is an Australian actor, singer, multi-instrumentalist, dancer and producer. Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as superhero, period, and romance characters. He is best known for his long-running role as Wolverine in the X-Men film ...

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70. Crusoe Kurddal

Actor | Ten Canoes

Crusoe Kurddal is known for Ten Canoes (2006), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) and Australia (2008).

71. Tom Budge

Actor | Candy

Tom Budge was born on March 15, 1982 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is an actor, known for Candy (2006), The Proposition (2005) and Bran Nue Dae (2009).

72. Kodi Smit-McPhee

Actor | Let Me In

Kodi Smit-McPhee started acting at the age of 9. He dropped out of high school in his first year to pursue acting and currently resides in Los Angeles as does his father Andy McPhee and sister Sianoa Smit-McPhee, who are also actors.

He made his feature film debut alongside Eric Bana in 2007's "...

73. Sam Worthington

Actor | Avatar

Samuel Henry John Worthington was born August 2, 1976 in Surrey, England. His parents, Jeanne (Martyn) and Ronald Worthington, a power plant employee, moved the family to Australia when he was six months old, and raised him and his sister Lucinda in Warnbro, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

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74. James Frecheville

Actor | Animal Kingdom

James Frecheville was born on May 3, 1991 in Melbourne, Australia. He is an actor and producer, known for Animal Kingdom (2010), Peaky Blinders (2013) and The Pursuit of Love (2021).

75. Sullivan Stapleton

Actor | Animal Kingdom

Sullivan Stapleton was born on June 14, 1977 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He is an actor and producer, known for Animal Kingdom (2010), 300: Rise of an Empire (2014) and Gangster Squad (2013).

76. Joel Edgerton

Actor | The Gift

Joel Edgerton was born on June 23, 1974 in Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia, to Marianne (van Dort) and Michael Edgerton, who is a solicitor and property developer. His brother is filmmaker Nash Edgerton. His mother is a Dutch immigrant. Joel went to Hills Grammar School in the Western Suburbs...

77. Richard Roxburgh

Actor | Van Helsing

Richard Roxburgh is an Australian actor, writer and producer who is known for portraying Dracula in the 2004 cult classic monster movie Van Helsing starring Hugh Jackman, Hugh Stamp in Mission: Impossible 2 and for his collaborations with Baz Luhrmann, particularly Moulin Rouge. He is married to ...

78. Rhys Wakefield

Actor | True Detective

Rhys Wakefield is an Australian actor and director who started out on the Australian TV series Home and Away where he starred in 363 episodes. Wakefield has since starred in season 3 of HBO's True Detective, the Purge franchise, James Cameron's Sanctum, Hulu's Reprisal, and was nominated for Best ...

79. Simon Baker

Actor | Margin Call

Simon Baker was first recognized in 1992, when he received Australia's prestigious Logie award for Most Popular New Talent. Upon relocating to Los Angeles with his family, Baker was immediately cast in the Academy Award winning film L.A. Confidential (1997).

80. Gulliver McGrath

Actor | Dark Shadows

Gulliver McGrath is an Australian actor. Gully landed his first acting break at age 6 when he was spotted at school in Brunswick by casting director Fiona Dann. He auditioned for, and landed, an ad for Cravendale milk, a British-based company - though the commercial was shot in Melbourne. McGrath ...

81. Liam Hemsworth

Actor | The Hunger Games

Liam Hemsworth was born on January 13, 1990, in Melbourne, Australia, and is the younger brother of actors Chris Hemsworth and Luke Hemsworth. He is the son of Leonie (van Os), a teacher of English, and Craig Hemsworth, a social-services counselor. He is of Dutch (from his immigrant maternal ...

82. Chris Hemsworth

Actor | Snow White and the Huntsman

Christopher "Chris" Hemsworth was born on August 11, 1983 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia to Leonie Hemsworth (née van Os), an English teacher & Craig Hemsworth, a social-services counselor. His brothers are actors, Liam Hemsworth & Luke Hemsworth; he is of Dutch (from his immigrant maternal ...

83. Callan McAuliffe

Actor | Flipped

Callan McAuliffe Callan Mcauliffe (28) is an Australian actor (based in New York and Sydney) most recently seen as series regular 'Alden' on the cult favourite 'The Walking Dead'. In 2024 Callan will be seen playing the lead role of 'Woody' in the feature film 'The Duel' co-starring with Dylan ...

84. Marton Csokas

Actor | Æon Flux

Marton was born in Invercargill, Aotearoa (New Zealand), to Margaret Christine (Rayner), a nurse, and Márton Csókás, a mechanical engineer. His father is Hungarian and his mother is Australian (of English, Irish, and Danish origin). He inherited some of his talents from his father, who was also a ...

85. Noah Wiseman

Actor | The Babadook

Noah Wiseman is known for The Babadook (2014), Funny or Die Presents... (2007) and The Gift (2013).

86. Jason Clarke

Actor | Zero Dark Thirty

Jason Clarke is an Australian actor, known for often being cast in antagonist roles in feature films. In 1969, Clarke was born in Winton, Queensland, a small town where the main industries are sheep and cattle raising. Winton was established as a township in 1879, but its main claim to fame are a ...

87. Hugh Keays-Byrne

Actor | Mad Max: Fury Road

Hugh Keays-Byrne was born in 1947 in Kashmir, India. In 1973, he moved to Australia, where he began an acting career. He is a well respected theater, film and TV actor in Australia. Hugh became noticed after roles in Stone (1974), Mad Dog Morgan (1976) and The Trespassers (1976). He landed his ...

88. Xavier Samuel

Actor | Blonde

Xavier Samuel was born on December 10, 1983 in Hamilton, Victoria, Australia. He is an actor, known for Blonde (2022), Fury (2014) and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010).

89. Nicholas Hamilton

Actor | It

Nicholas was born in Lismore, Australia on May 4, 2000 as Nicholas William Hamilton. Nic has worked constantly throughout his teen years. He is most commonly known for his portrayal of Henry Bowers in IT (2017), based on the acclaimed Stephen King novel, and also appears in The Dark Tower, starring...

90. Hamilton Morris

Actor | Sweet Country

Hamilton Morris is known for Sweet Country (2017), 8MMM Aboriginal Radio (2015) and Sweet Country: Behind the Scenes (2018).

91. Ewen Leslie

Actor | Sleeping Beauty

He was born in Fremantle, Western Australia. He gained a scholarship to study theatre at John Curtin College of the Arts and at age 12 was cast in the TV series Ship to Shore. He was accepted into the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts straight out of high school and graduated in 2000. ...

92. Taika Waititi

Producer | What We Do in the Shadows

Taika Waititi, also known as Taika Cohen, hails from the Raukokore region of the East Coast of the North Island of New Zealand, and is the son of Robin (Cohen), a teacher, and Taika Waititi, an artist and farmer. His father is Maori (Te-Whanau-a-Apanui), and his mother is of Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish...

93. Finn Little

Actor | Yellowstone

Australian actor Finn Little has an impressive tally of feature films and global television shows under his young belt. Born in Brisbane, Australia, on the 9th of June 2006, Finn Little has quickly become a very respected actor worldwide. Having worked with the likes of Emmy, Oscar and Tony award ...

94. Luke Bracey

Actor | Point Break

Luke Bracey was born in Sydney, Australia and made his acting debut in Aussie soap opera, Home and Away (1988) in 2009, portraying bad-boy "Trey Palmer" into 2010, while also appearing in multiple episodes of Aussie series Dance Academy (2010)). He next co-starred in what was both his first feature...

95. Leon Ford

Actor | The Letdown

Leon Ford is known for The Letdown (2017), Rams (2020) and The Pacific (2010).

96. Dacre Montgomery

Actor | Stranger Things

Dacre was born in 1994 in Perth, Western Australia. His mother is Australian-Canadian and his father is a New Zealander. At the time of his birth both of his parents were working in the film industry and he spent many hours during his childhood on film sets where he developed a love of acting. ...

97. Sam Rechner

Actor | The Fabelmans

Sam Rechner is known for The Fabelmans (2022), Ruby's Choice (2022) and Heartbreak High (2022).

98. Zoe Terakes

Actor | Wentworth

Zoe Terakes is an actor and activist best known for roles in Wentworth, Nine Perfect Strangers and Ellie and Abbie. Zoe starred in the latest seasons of Wentworth as transgender inmate 'Reb Keane.' Zoe has been in several theatre productions, receiving two Sydney Theatre Awards and a Helpmann ...

A young Australian actress that is transitioning into a man since about 2021

99. Hamish Phillips

Actor | Talk to Me

Hamish Phillips is known for Talk to Me (2022), The Pack (2015) and Welcome to Iron Knob (2013).

100. Joe Bird

Actor | Talk to Me

Joe Bird was born on April 8, 2007. He is an actor, known for Talk to Me (2022), Rabbit (2017) and First Day (2020).