Duncan Cameron-Holmes
- Actor
Duncan Hadley Cameron was born while his parents Ioan Cameron & Raye
Holmes (both New Zealanders) were on their Big OE. He was born in his
ancestral town - Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England, UK at 2.20am on Sunday
May 27, 1979. His parents carried on with their OE (his father was a
postgraduate law student and his mother was a cleaner) and Duncan
travelled throughout Europe for the first year of his life before his
parents returned home to New Zealand. Duncan is named after his
grandfathers, Duncan Holmes (a former war vet), and Hadley Cameron (a
sheep shearer). In 1982 his parents had his sisters 10 months apart,
Kylie & Carolyn, and his baby brother in 1987, Trevor. He went to
schools in Auckland, Gisborne, Tolaga Bay & Wellington. In 1992 his
parents split up when he started high school and he had to live with
his grandparents in Auckland so he deed polled his name to carry both
his parents names. In 1999 he appeared on the TV series Shortland Street (1992) as a
high school student before going on to the Australian show "Good
Behaviour, Bad Behaviour" with his then girlfriend Kira Matthews. He got
engaged to Kira on her birthday in 2000 and they married on the 14 of
March 2001.