Hamish McFarlane

Hamish McFarlane's screen career began when he was only 11 — he won a NZ Film Award after starring as a boy on a quest for survival, in Vincent Ward classic The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey. After co-starring in kidult show Strangers and a few further screen roles, he moved behind the camera to be an assistant director. Since then he has worked on both TV and movies, including Super City and The Dead Lands.

I just took it all as a joke, until we got down to the last eight. Then I was pretty determined...and at four, I'd have killed to get the part. Hamish McFarlane on auditioning for The Navigator, in The Sydney Morning Herald, 25 November 1988