Dustin Clare
Dustin Clare
Dustin Clare is an Australian actor. He is best known for his starring role as Gannicus in the Starz series Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, Spartacus: Vengeance and Spartacus: War of the Damned, and as Riley Ward on the series McLeod's Daughters...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth2 January 1982
CityGrafton, Australia
CountryAustralia
daughter mother jobs
McLeod's Daughters' was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera.
drama school thinking
I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19.
sex passionate actors
I'm passionate about being an actor, but I'm definitely not passionate about being a sex symbol.
mean australia nonsense
New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work, like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone.
guitar dancing challenges
I'm singing and dancing and playing guitar. I really enjoy pushing myself into different aspects. I'm not going to do this for the rest of my life, but I want to keep challenging myself. And if I'm fearful of something I definitely want to step into it and see how good or bad I am at it.
expectations people age
Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.
summer water swim
When I'm not working, I weight train three times a week and swim and surf as much as I can - in the summer, you usually find me in the water.
honest building farmers
I had wanted to be a fish farmer, to be honest with you. I wanted to be an agriculturist. I wanted to have my own fish farm. I was also contemplating surfboard building.
eye fans different
I hadn't been there [Comic-Con] before. It's pretty eye-opening, when you haven't been there, just with the sheer amount of fans that are there for different shows and films. It's like a big fan symposium, in a way, as well a way for film studios and television studios to really promote their product to their loyal audience base. It was an experience.
film graphic-novels genre
Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It's really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small screen.
projects picks
There's always a project around, but you have to pick and choose.
mistake thinking years
I think I made some mistakes, in different areas, but it's great to be working in a show again now, many years down the track. I have worked in many other different shows in Australia and I've been able to learn from my mistakes. I'm lucky that I made those mistakes early on in Australia, and I definitely won't make them again in the States, but you've got to learn that stuff.
daughter jobs drama
McLeod's Daughters was my first regular job out of drama school, and my first full-time role. That was great because I learned a lot, in terms of working in front of the camera. I learned a lot of technical aspects that you take for granted once you know them, but you have to learn them somewhere, along the way. It was a bit of a training ground for me, working in front of the camera and also dealing with media.
nice mean reality
New Zealand is a pretty no-nonsense place to work like Australia. I mean it doesn't falter to anyone. There's a nice sense of reality on the set and it's really enjoyable. There's a good camaraderie and a good banter between the obviously New Zealand and Australian rivalry.