Sam Neill

One of New Zealand's best-known screen actors, Sam Neill possesses a blend of charm, everyman ordinariness and good looks that have seen him acting across the globe. His resume of television and 80+ feature films includes leading roles in a number of New Zealand projects — from a man on the run in his breakout feature Sleeping Dogs and a repressed settler in The Piano, to 'the man' in Perfect Strangers.

I'd like to think I'm able to suggest ambiguities and complexities in the people I play, because I think all of us have hidden aspects or contradictory qualities. Sam Neill, in a 27 July 2007 Dominion Post interview