Blair Strang
| Blair Strang | |
|---|---|
| Born | Blair Strang 15 March 1972 New Zealand |
| Occupation | Actor |
Blair Strang (born 15 March 1972) is a New Zealand actor. He is most noted for playing ambulance driver Rangi Heremaia on New Zealand's longest-running soap opera, Shortland Street, between 1995 and 2001.[1][2]
Early life
Born to a Pākehā father and a Māori mother,[3] he attended Saint Kentigern College, Pakuranga, where he was Head Prefect.[3]
Filmography
- Nothing Trivial – Brian King
- Kaitangata Twitch – Sebastian Cardwell
- Shortland Street – Rangi Heremaia
- Go Girls – Joseph
- Doves of War – Joe Matich
- Orange Roughies – D.S. Sean Parkes
- So You Wanna Be a Popstar? – a singer
- Power Rangers S.P.D. – Bork
- Maiden Voyage: Ocean Hijack – Enrique
- Deceit – Karl
- Mataku – Uncle Eru (Season 1 Episode 3: Going to War)
- Best Bits – Himself
- Happy Birthday 2 You – Paramedic Rangi Heremia
- Look Who's Famous Now – Himself
- Interrogation
- Homeland
Career
As well as Shortland Street, Strang has appeared in television dramas Doves of War (for TV3), Orange Roughies (TV 1), Interrogation (Prime TV), Go Girls and Nothing Trivial. He also made an appearance on So You Wanna be a Popstar?, hosted by Oliver Driver, and starring Katrina Hobbs, and regularly appears in a variety of roles as a guest star or extra.
He completed filming Māori Television's new family drama, Kaitangata Twitch, which is an adaption of the children's book by author, Margaret Mahy. He has also completed a successful New Zealand tour of the theatre piece, Whero's New Net and co starred in the TV drama Nothing Trivial and Homeland.
Personal life
He has an LLB from the University of Auckland, majoring in entertainment law,[4] and is a practising family lawyer in Takapuna at The Law Lounge.
He married his former Shortland Street co-star Katrina Devine on 10 November 2001;[5] the couple later divorced.
Awards
In 2008 he won Metro magazine's "Outstanding Performance of the Year" award in a theatre piece with Massive Theatre Company called Whero's New Net.[6]
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