Worked at a variety of jobs before his acting career took off, including delivering milk, and selling cars and real estate
Performed in his parents' theater group and did radio voice-overs in New Zealand before moving to Australia in 1979, where he soon landed a role on the soap opera The Young Doctors
Became famous in Australia for playing the character Jim Robinson on the soap Neighbours for eight years
While he was playing bass in a band with his Neighbours costars at a 1987 charity event, a cast member named Kylie Minogue sang Little Eva's "The Loco-motion" with them, and her singing career was born
After moving to Los Angeles in 2000, quickly became familiar to U
S
audiences with roles on ER, The X-Files and The O
C
, among other shows
Shared a 2007 Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for the ABC dramedy Ugly Betty
Says his motto is the Winston Churchill quote, "Never, never, never give up
Awards
2007Screen Actors Guild Awards-Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series:nominated
2006Screen Actors Guild Awards-Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series:nominated