Blair Strang

As a teenager in Auckland, Blair Strang scored a role on sitcom The Billy T James Show. But he won fame thanks to a six year run on Shortland Street, as ambulance driver Rangi Heremaia. Along the way, Rangi spent periods lovelorn, paraplegic, on the run, and thinking he was romancing his own sister. Since leaving the show Strang has risen from the dead, completing a law degree and launching a law firm in Auckland. He has also found time to act on TV series Go Girls, Greg McGee thriller Doves of War (as an arrogant ex-soldier) and on hit show Nothing Trivial — he did three seasons as quiz-mad "bloke’s bloke" Brian King.

When I first started out as a young fella, acting was my passion. And it still is otherwise I wouldn’t do it. But law has kind of grown on me, and it’s like a girlfriend that I realised slowly I really do love. Blair Strang, in an interview with Dominion Post writer Kimberley Rothwell, 19 July 2011