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Sam Neill has been a regular fixture in Australian film and TV for the last five decades. While he proudly hails from across the ditch, this New Zealander is just as at home in Australia and has been since landing his first local role in 1979’s My Brilliant Career. In fact, in 2019 he became only the second Kiwi recipient of the lifetime achievement AACTA Longford Lyell Award in recognition of his contribution to our TV and film industry.
But he didn’t always envision a life in front of the camera.
“I never imagined having a career in film; that was just beyond my imagination, because I lived in New Zealand for one thing and there were no films being made really,” he tells magazine candidly. “I [in 1977] and it was the first feature film that had been made in New Zealand for 17 years! So the idea of having a career in film or television was just so far out of the box that it wasn’t something that I thought would be remotely possible.”
