Career

Starr began his professional acting career early in the 1990s with a small part in Shortland Street and guest roles in Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.

In 2001, Starr was cast in Mercy Peak as Todd Van der Velter, one of the no-good, white trash Van der Velter brothers. It was a guest role that he had throughout the show’s three seasons. He also received a role as the brother of long running character Waverley Wilson in the soap opera Shortland Street. He appeared for several weeks as part of the write out of the Minnie Crozier character. Starr did not like the fast pace of the show and thought his performances suffered due to it.

Since then, Starr's television credits have included a core cast role in kids' series Hard Out and guest roles in P.E.T. Detectives and Street Legal as well as a brief stint in Serial Killers, the critically acclaimed comedy series that was penned by Outrageous Fortune co-creator James Griffin.

Playing twins Van and Jethro West won Starr the 2007 Air New Zealand Screen Award for Performance by an Actor, the award for Best Actor at the Qantas Television Awards and Best Actor at the Asian TV Awards in the same year. Readers of the TV Guide also voted Starr Best Actor in the 2007 TV Guide Best on the Box People’s Choice Awards. In 2005, he was named Best Actor at the inaugural Qantas Television Awards for his role in Outrageous Fortune.

During the production of the first series of Outrageous Fortune, Starr also juggled filming for Toa Fraser's debut feature, No. 2 which was released in New Zealand in early 2006. Starr’s other film credits include Roger Donaldson’s The World's Fastest Indian, the US comedy feature Without a Paddle and Brad McGann's acclaimed feature film In My Father's Den. In the summer of 2006/7 between series two and three of Outrageous Fortune, Starr worked on a collaborative short film with some friends.

Starr appeared on stage in the second edition of Sex with Strangers (2005). In 2004, Starr performed in two theatre productions: Closer at Auckland's Silo Theatre and Sex with Strangers directed by Colin Mitchell at the Herald Theatre.

Between filming Outrageous Fortune seasons five and six, Starr starred in feature film After the Waterfall and the telefeature Spies and Lies.

In 2011, Starr joined the cast of the Australian police drama Rush, playing Senior Sergeant Charlie Lewis. He will also have a role in the second series of Lowdown.

As of January 2013, Starr is starring in the television series, Banshee, which is his first role on U.S. television. He plays an unnamed ex-con who, after 15 years in prison, assumes the identity of Lucas Hood, becoming the new Sheriff of Banshee. Trying to reconnect with his former lover, Anastasia, both learn that he "has become a distant (violent) version of the man he once was". The show's fourth and final season began in April 2016.

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	Xena: Warrior Princess	Mesas	"Hooves and Harlots" (S01E10)
1996	Xena: Warrior Princess	David	"The Giant Killer" (S02E03)
2000-2002	Shortland Street	Stratford Wilson	Guest role, unknown episodes
2001-2003	Mercy Peak	Todd Van der Velter	Series regular
2005-2010	Outrageous Fortune	Jethro West / Van West	Main role
2011	Rush	Charlie Lewis	Main role
2012	Tricky Business	Matt Sloane	Main role
2013-2016	Banshee	Lucas Hood	Main role

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2003	Terror Peak	Jason	TV movie
2003	Skin & Bone	Seymour Collins
2004	In My Father's Den	Gareth
2004	Without a Paddle	Billy Newwood
2004	Not Only But Always	Cab Driver	TV movie
2005	The World's Fastest Indian	Jeff
2006	No. 2	Shelly
2010	After the Waterfall	John Drean
2010	Spies and Lies	Sydney Ross
2012	Wish You Were Here	Jeremy King

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Work	Result
2006	Air New Zealand Screen Awards	Performance by an Actor	Outrageous Fortune	Nominated
2007	Air New Zealand Screen Awards	Best Actor in a TV Drama	Outrageous Fortune (S03E07)	Won
2007	NZ TV Guide Best on the Box People's Choice Awards	Best Actor	Outrageous Fortune	Won
2008	Qantas Film and Television Awards	Performance by an Actor in General Television	Outrageous Fortune	Won
2009	Qantas Film and Television Awards	Performance by an Actor in General Television	Outrageous Fortune	Nominated
2011	Aotearoa Film & Television Awards	Best Performance by an Actor	Spies And Lies	Nominated
2011	Aotearoa Film & Television Awards	Best Lead Actor in a Feature Film	After the Waterfall	Nominated
2012	Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Wish You Were Here	Won
2012	Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards	Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Wish You Were Here	Won

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