David Austin (actor)

David Austin (actor)
Born	David Mark Austin 19 January 1967 (1967-01-19) (age 44) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

David Austin is a New Zealand based actor.

Biography

David's family moved to New Zealand when he was 8 months old and settled in the Auckland suburb of Manurewa. He left school at 15, serving an apprenticeship in Fitting at the Otahuhu Railway Workshops. During the nineties David worked in various jobs, including shoe repair, carpentry and anodising. In 2004 David quit fulltime work to study Multimedia at SAE Institute in Auckland and set up his own web design business the following year. In 2007, he took up acting, becoming the frightening face of New Zealand road safety^[1] in a series of ads on intersections^[2] and in 2009 played Medicus in the Starz series Spartacus:Blood and Sand.

External links

• Official Website
• David Austin at IMDb.com
• LTNZ "Spin the wheel" advertisement

References

1. ^ Leask, Anna (5 April 2009). "Stunt driver's wheel of misfortune". The New Zealand Herald. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10565273. Retrieved 27 September 2011. 
2. ^ Leask, Anna (5 April 2009). "Ghoulish demeanour lands roles". The New Zealand Herald. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10565275. Retrieved 27 September 2011. 

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Name	Austin, David
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Date of birth	19 January 1967
Place of birth	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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