David Austin (actor)

David Austin is a New Zealand-based actor.

Biography

Austin's family moved to New Zealand when he was 8 months old and settled in the Auckland suburb of Manurewa. He left school at 15, serving an apprenticeship in Fitting at the Otahuhu Railway Workshops. During the nineties David worked in various jobs, including shoe repair, carpentry and anodising. In 2004, Austin quit full-time work to study Multimedia at SAE Institute in Auckland and set up his own web design business the following year. In 2007, he took up acting, becoming the frightening face of New Zealand road safety in a series of ads on intersections and in 2009 played Medicus in the Starz series Spartacus: Blood and Sand.
David Austin is also a songwriter, musician and producer. He has released several solo projects as well as material with his former band Stark Raven. David Austin appears as the guest bassist on The Feckers song "Music Keeps Me Sane". David has written and recorded with The Feckers members Chris Szkup and Richard Anderson on several songs that appeared on his solo album "A Changing Sky", as well as demos that exist of other unreleased Austin-Szkup-Anderson songs.