Rhys Wakefield is an Australian actor, film director and screenwriter best known for his role as Lucas Holden on the long-running Australian series Home and Away where he acted in 363 episodes. He won the acting scholarship at McDonald College of Performing Arts in 2003 and was able to perform with the Australian Ballet and Opera in Australia. During the cast of Home and Away he became embroiled in a controversial storyline which the Australian Broadcasting Authority reclassified as a PG for noting that scenes had broken the Australian Broadcasting Code.

Rhys was the lead in James Cameron’s 2011 disaster survival thriller, Sanctum . He starred in the third season of HBO’s True Detective (2014), an American crime drama written by Nic Pizzolatto. He played the suave leader in the American action horror The Purge which is a 4 movie and 1 TV series franchise. Rhys was one of the main characters in the 2008 Australian comedy drama The Black Balloon starring Toni Collette, Luke Ford, Erik Thomson and Gemma Ward. His directorial debut for a feature film is the 2009 comedy horror film Berserker which he co-starred with Nick Cannon, James Roday, Nora Arnezeder and Jack Falahee.

He has also appeared in short films such as Der Spiegel and Purify the Air in 2008 and Scent in 2009 among others. He co-wrote and directed the short film A Man Enters a Bar 2013 which was a finalist at the Tropfest International Short Film Festival in Sydney, Australia in 2013.

Born name

Rhys Wakefield

nickname

Rhys

Sun sign

Scorpio

Place of birth

Cairn, Queensland, Australia

nationality

training

Rhys Wakefield was present at The McDonalds College of Performing Arts , Sydney.

occupation

Actor, producer, director, screenwriter

family

• Father – Chris Wakefield (Naval Officer)
• Mutter – Elizabeth Wakefield (Medical Standards Officer)
• Siblings – Luke Wakefield (brother)

Manager

Rhys Wakefield is managed by –

• Anonymous Content (Talent Management Company), California, USA
• ICM Partners (Talent Agent), Los Angeles, California, USA
• Grandview (Manager), Los Angeles, California, USA
• Sloane, Offer, Weber & Dern (legal representative), Los Angeles, California, USA

To build

Athletic

Height

179,5 cm (5 ft 10¾ in)

weight

76 kg or 167.5 lbs

girlfriend/spouse

Rhys Wakefield has dated –

1. Indiana Evans (2006) – Rhys Wakefield dated Indiana Evans, an Australian actress for 9 months in 2006. Rhys Wakefield and Indiana Evans acted together in Home and Away Together. The two secretly dated back in February 2006 and publicly announced their relationship on TV week 2006’s Logies . They broke up later that year in November, but they still remain friends.

race/ethnicity

White

hair colour

Blond

eye color

Blau

sexual orientation

Just

distinguishing features

• Sliced ​​pine
• protruding chin

brand promotion

He has not yet done any promotional work for any brand.

Known for

• Acting in films such as The Black Balloon , Sanctum , The Purge , Endless Love , Cardboard Boxer , You Get Me , among others
• Appears on television shows such as Home and Away and True Detective , among others.
• Berserker will produce the film in 2019
• Writing, directing and editing the 2013 short film A man walks into a bar

first movie

Rhys Wakefield made his big screen debut in 2000 as the dancing kid in Bootmen . However, he was uncredited for his role.

He made his credited big screen debut as Thomas Mollison in The Black Balloon in 2008.

First TV show

He made his TV show debut as Brad in episodes 11 and 12 of Do n’t Blame Me (Don’t Blame The Koalas) in 2002.

Personal trainer

Not much information is available about Rhys Wakefields, however, some of his roles required a certain level of fitness, requiring him to work out at the gym, swimming or outdoors.

Rhys Wakefield favorite things

• Movies – The Burbs (1989), The Goonies (1985)
• TV Series – We Can Be Heroes
• Bands – Akzeptanz, die Black Eyed Peas, Coldplay, Green Day, Oasis, die Whitlams
• Songs – Blast The Whitlams’ Pokies
• Book – The Hobbit
• place – Thailand

Rhys Wakefield Facts

1. He is an Australian actor, best known for his role in the long-running Australian television series Home and Away . His main role in the daytime series was in 363 episodes.
2. He attended McDonald’s College of Performing Arts in Sydney as well as well-known Australians in the entertainment industry such as Nikki Webster, Bojana Novakovic, Josh Quong Tart, Sarah Murdoch and many others.
3. For the film Sanctum (2007), Rhys underwent deep water training and was able to increase the time he can hold his breath from 45 seconds to 1 minute and 20 seconds.
4. While on holiday in Fiji, he also undertook a practice dive to swim among the shoots with sharks. He starred in this thriller Sanctum .
5. For the 2008 film The Black Balloon Rhys and Ford, who play the autism character, had a public trip to the films and a mall to test their roles and assimilate people’s responses to autism.
6. Rhys played the suave leader in the 2013 film The Purge .
7. He was nominated for The Most Popular New Male Talent in the 2006 Logie Awards for his role in Home and Away .
8. Rhys has been nominated three times for his role in The Black Ballo ; at the 2008 IF Awards for “Best Actor” at the 2008 Australian Film Institute Awards for “Best Actor” and at the 2009 Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards for “Best Actor”.
9. The Black Balloon premiered at the 2008 Berlin International Film Festival in Germany. It won Best Feature Film and received the Crystal Bear in the Generation 14 Plus category.
10. He won the 2013 Fright Meter Awards for “Best Supporting Actor” in The Purge .
11. His short film A Man Enters a Bar, which he co-wrote and directed, was a finalist at the 2013 Tropfest International Short Film Festival .
12. Rhys wrote and directed the indie film Berserker (2019), in which he also stars with Nick Cannon, Nora Arnezeder and James Roday.
13. The 2016 Beverly Hills Film Festival officially selected his screenplay Please Close the Gate . It was also a feature film finalist at the Cinequest Film Festival screenplay competition.
14. Rhys Wakefield’s entire films, both as an actor and director, grossed more than $250,000,000 worldwide in 2019.
15. He is friends with Jessica Tovey, Bobby Morley and Indiana Evans, with whom he had a brief romance in 2006.
16. He loves nature and the water.
17. Follow his fan page on Instagram and Twitter.