ERROLL SHAND as LOUIS
Erroll Shand is a high-profile New Zealand actor who has carved out a memorable gallery of characters on TV and on the big screen. His breakout role was as Terry Clark, New Zealand’s most notorious drug dealer, in Underbelly – Land of the Long Green Cloud. Since then, he has developed an impressive list of antagonists such as Chocka Fahey in Harry, a character who wouldn’t be out of place in Sons of Anarchy.
His ear for accents has seen him in US productions such as The Shannara Chronicles, Gale Anne Hurd’s Hunters, and the Netflix series Roman Empire. On the big screen he has appeared as an HIV-infected father in Little Secret, in family adventure The Waterhorse and in over-the-top metalhead gorefest Deathgasm.
JODIE HILLOCK as MADELEINE
A former child actor who got her start thanks to her love of horse riding in Ron Howard’s Willow, Jodie has extensive theatre and screen credits. In 2007 she won the Wellington Chapman Tripp Theatre Award for her performance in Homeland. In 2010 she appeared in Tracker alongside Ray Winstone and Temuera Morrison.
Some of her more recent roles include as Sheriff Riley in Ash vs Evil Dead and the feature film Daffodils, a love story set to re-imaginings of iconic New Zealand songs. She also appeared as Karen Lampton in the well-received murder series The Bad Seed based on the acclaimed novels by Charlotte Grimshaw.
SIMON PHILLIPS as JULES
Simon Phillips is a British actor working primarily in independent films. He is best known for the Jack trilogy (Jack Says, Jack Said and Jack Falls) and The Rise and Fall of a White Collar Hooligan series of feature films. He created his own TV show, Age of the Living Dead, about an America quarantined, with humans and vampires co-existing on opposite coasts. Simon also played an evil Santa Claus in Once Upon a Time at Christmas which has already spawned a sequel.
He has appeared in feature films alongside actors as diverse as Danny Dyer, Mark Hamill, Robert Englund, Rutger Hauer, Richard E. Grant, and Jean-Claude Van Damme.
RALPH JOHNSON as PRESCOTT
Ralph Johnson is an accomplished New Zealand actor, with vast experience on stage and screen. He has appeared in many classic Kiwi movies and TV shows. In Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy he proved his versatility, playing various characters including an Orc, an Uruk-hai, a Rohan Soldier, and a Council Man. He also appeared in Jackson’s King Kong and in Disney TV series Legend of the Seeker.
Adept at fantasy and great as an on-screen heavy, Ralph has recently shown his lighter side in Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi’s Wellington Paranormal.
