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Neill Rea

Actor, Casting Agent

Toi Whakaari graduate Neill Rea first won attention as the likeable if mildly-unhinged Scotty, one of the Dunedin students caught up in crime in hit movie Scarfies (1999). Since then Rea has embarked on a dual career as owner-operator of Auckland casting agency Fly Casting, while taking on a number of television  and voice roles of his own. His work as casting director includes 2012 TV movie What Really Happened - Votes for Women, and movie Kiwi Christmas. In 2014 he starred as Detective Mike Shepherd, in the first of multiple seasons of Prime’s feature-length crime series The Brokenwood Mysteries.

I was lucky enough to meet an Auckland-based police officer who offered to show me around. He was great — he wore a pink shirt and a mismatching tie, and if I could have distilled him and bottled him that would have been the character! Neill Rea on researching his role for The Brokenwood Mysteries, Prime TV website

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Interview

Neill Rea: From Hercules to The Brokenwood Mysteries...

Interview, 2015

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One Lane Bridge

2020 - 2022, Casting Director - Television

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One Lane Bridge - First Episode

2020, Casting Director - Television

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Jonah - First Episode

2019, Casting Director - Television

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Kiwi

2018, Casting Director - Television

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The Dance Exponents - Why Does Love? (excerpt)

2017, Casting Director - Television

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Kiwi Christmas

2017, Casting - Film

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Hillary - First Episode

2016, Casting - Television

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The Cul de Sac - First Episode

2016, Casting - Television

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Auckward Love

2017, As: Des - Web

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When We Go to War - First Episode (excerpt)

2015, Casting Director - Television

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The Kick

2014, As: Brian, Casting - Television

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The Brokenwood Mysteries

2014 - ongoing, As: Detective Mike Shepherd - Television

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The Brokenwood Mysteries - First Episode

2014, As: Detective Mike Shepherd - Television

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What Really Happened - Votes for Women

2012, Casting Director , As: Agitator - Television

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This is Not My Life - First Episode

2010, Casting Director - Television

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Go Girls

2011 - 2012, As: Dave Byron - Television

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Rude Awakenings

2007, As: Miles Grange - Television

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Rude Awakenings - First Episode

2007, As: Miles Grange - Television

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The Killian Curse

2006 - 2008, As: Mr Simpson - Television

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Spooked

2004, As: Dale - Film

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The Strip

2002 - 2003, As: Phil - Television

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Mercy Peak

2001 - 2003, As: Malcolm - Television

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Fish Skin Suit

2000, Casting - Television

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The Irrefutable Truth about Demons

2000, As: Richard, As: Richard - Film

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Duggan

1999, As: Private Alexander Endacott - Television

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Scarfies

1999, As: Scott - Film

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Shortland Street

2000 - 2001, As: Eamon Dempsey - Television