JOEL TOBECK – BILL (Short Biography)

JOEL TOBECK is a well known New Zealand actor.  His feature film credits 
include Niki Caro's Memory and Desire and Harry Sinclair's Topless Women 
Talk About Their Lives, which won him a New Zealand Film Award for Best 
Actor.  JOEL TOBECK’S television credits include the cult series Xena: Warrior 
Princess, Hercules and Young Hercules, Lawless, Cleopatra 2525 and the 
popular New Zealand series Shortland Street.

JOEL TOBECK – BILL (Long Biography) 

JOEL TOBECK gave his first professional performance at the age of five in 
Auckland’s Mercury Theatre production of The Duchess of Malfi. He gained 
acting experience with the Auckland Youth Theatre and the Auckland 
Performing Arts School where he trained as a dancer. 

JOEL is now a well known New Zealand actor, whose feature film credits 
include Niki Caro's Memory and Desire and Harry Sinclair's Topless Women 
Talk About Their Lives which won him a New Zealand Film Award for Best 
Actor.  Prior to Perfect Strangers he completed filming on the UK family 
feature The Water Giant directed by John Henderson.  He also features as a 
hero Orc in the forthcoming The Return of the King, the third film in Peter 
Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

JOEL TOBECK’S television credits include the cult series Xena: Warrior 
Princess, Hercules and Young Hercules, as well as Lawless, Cleopatra 2525 
and the popular New Zealand series Shortland Street.

JOEL also has a strong interest in music and is plays with the New Zealand 
band Splitter who, in 2002, released a new CD, Devil in the Detail.