Benedict Wall

Wall was born in Auckland and grew up in Wellington.^[1][2] Wall spent three years completing a bachelor's degree in journalism. Six months after graduating, he decided to pursue a career in acting and won a scholarship to the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City.^[3]

Wall has been in a relationship with actress Jessica Grace Smith since 2010. The couple live in Sydney.^[4] Wall and Smith got engaged in November 2019,^[5] and they married in New Zealand on 8 February 2020.^[6] In July 2021, they announced they were expecting their first child.^[7]

Wall played Ben on Outrageous Fortune in 2007.^[1] He also had roles in The Amazing Extraordinary Friends, Reckless Behavior: Caught on Tape and John Safran's Race Relations.^[8] In 2011, Wall received an audition for the medical soap opera Shortland Street and he was cast in the recurring role of ED consultant Owen Sutherland.^[1] The following year, he starred in the short film Ten Thousand Days, alongside Morgana O'Reilly.^[9] He also made a guest appearance in Underbelly: Badness.^[10]

Wall portrayed Breaker Morant in Breaker Morant: The Retrial, a television documentary filmed in Charters Towers.^[2] He starred as pirate radio host Rick Grant in the 2014 docudrama Pirates of the Airwaves, which tells the story of the founding of Radio Hauraki.^[11] The following year, he appeared in James Raue's low budget feature film Psychoanalysis.^[12] He was also cast in the Australian feature film The Pretend One, alongside Geraldine Hakewill and David Field. The film was shot in Queensland and released in 2016.^[13]

Wall and fellow actor Tai Hara co-wrote the black comedy film Best Mates. Wall also directed and acted in the short, alongside Hara and Jessica Grace Smith. Best Mates received a nomination for Best Live Action Short Film at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.^[14][15]

In 2016, Wall took over the role of Duncan Stewart in Home and Away. The character had not been part of the show for ten years.^[16] Wall had auditioned for Home and Away several times before he was cast as Duncan. He received a recall for the part of Martin Ashford,^[3] and he also auditioned for the role of Justin Morgan.^[16] In the same year, Wall appeared in the miniseries Brock as Tony Roberts.^[17] Wall plays the role of Jones in 2020 television drama Operation Buffalo, a friend of Major Leo Carmichael played by Ewen Leslie.^[18]

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