Todd Emerson

Since winning his first lead role on stage at age 11, Todd Emerson has built a lengthy CV on stage and screen. In 2015 he joined the main cast on Westside, playing charismatic career criminal Bilkey Van Heeder for all six seasons of the show. He also starred in Sally Tran’s 2015 feature film Timeslow, playing a man who enters a parallel world. Emerson has also had many theatre roles, including Peter Hudson in stage play Hudson & Halls Live, which recreates a TV show by the beloved chefs. Alongside his on-screen roles, in early 2023 Emerson began working as an intimacy coordinator for film, television and stage productions. 

I was actually shooting Westside at the same time as performing Hudson and Halls, so I'd go from playing this super-closeted 80s dude in the day to this completely camp one at night. Todd Emerson in an NZ Herald interview, 14 June 2016