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Ben Barrington

Actor

Over more than two decades on New Zealand television screens, actor Ben Barrington has played a plethora of different roles. After graduating from Toi Whakaari in 2001, Barrington won a Chapman Tripp award for his stage work, and was nominated for further gongs for acclaimed TV series Insiders Guide to Happiness, as a doctor close to breaking. In 2011, Barrington joined The Almighty Johnsons as the well-meaning but lazy god Olaf. After time as romantic interest on Aussie hit Offspring and a stint on Dancing With the Stars, Barrington joined Shortland Street for an extended run as the "playful" plastic surgeon Drew McCaskill. 

The Insiders Guide to Happiness is a production that I'm still fiercely proud of to this day ... kind of a world all its own, that show. It just had this tone to it that wasn't like anything else. Ben Barrington on The Insiders Guide to Happiness

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Interview

Ben Barrington: On playing doctors and gods on TV...

Interview, 2015

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Shortland Street - Is It You Or Is It Me (30th anniversary song)

2022, As: Drew McCaskill - Music video

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Shortland Street - Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2022

2022, As: Drew McCaskill - Television

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Shortland Street - Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2021

2021, Drew McCaskill - Television

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My Life is Murder

2021, As: Tom Bernay - Television

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Shortland Street - Billy McCaskill's birth

2018, As: Drew McCaskill - Television

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Michael Galvin on meeting the triplets

2017, As: Doctor Drew McCaskill - Web

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Shortland Street - 25th anniversary (volcanic eruption)

2017, As: Doctor Drew McCaskill - Television

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Auckward Love

2015 - 2017, As: Brian - Web

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Auckward Love - Series One

2015, As: Brian - Web

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Shortland Street - 2015 Christmas cliffhanger (hostage siege)

2015, As: Doctor Drew McCaskill - Television

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The Brokenwood Mysteries

2015, As: Steve - Television

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Auckland Daze

2013, As: Ben - Web

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The Almighty Johnsons

2011 - 2013, As: Olaf Johnson - Television

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The Almighty Johnsons - First Episode

2011, As: Olaf Johnson - Television

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Eruption

2010, As: Vince, As: Vince - Television

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Police College - First Episode

2006, Narrator - Television

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Police College

2006, Narrator - Television

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Dancing with the Stars

2015, Contestant - Television

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Interrogation

2005, As: Pete Morgan - Television

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Outrageous Fortune

2006 - 2007, As: Tyson - Television

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The Insiders Guide to Love

2005, As: William - Television

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The Insiders Guide to Happiness

2004, As: William - Television

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The Insiders Guide to Happiness - Does Happiness Grow Up? (Chapter Eleven)

2004, As: William - Television

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Freaky

2003 - 2005, As: Wazza - Television

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The Strip

2003, As: Lenny - Television

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Shortland Street

2015 - ongoing, As: Doctor Drew McCaskill - Television