Toi Whakaari graduate Neill Rea first won attention as the likeable if mildly-unhinged Scotty, one of the Dunedin students caught up in crime in hit movie Scarfies (1999). Since then Rea has embarked on a dual career as owner-operator of Auckland casting agency Fly Casting, while taking on a number of television and voice roles of his own. His work as casting director includes 2012 TV movie What Really Happened - Votes for Women, and movie Kiwi Christmas. In 2014 he starred as Detective Mike Shepherd, in the first of multiple seasons of Prime’s feature-length crime series The Brokenwood Mysteries.
I was lucky enough to meet an Auckland-based police officer who offered to show me around. He was great — he wore a pink shirt and a mismatching tie, and if I could have distilled him and bottled him that would have been the character! Neill Rea on researching his role for The Brokenwood Mysteries, Prime TV website
Interview, 2015
2017, Casting Director - Television
2017, Casting - Film
2016, Casting - Television
2016, Casting - Television
2017, As: Des - Web
2015, Casting Director - Television
2014, As: Brian, Casting - Television
2014 - ongoing, As: Detective Mike Shepherd - Television
2014, As: Detective Mike Shepherd - Television
2012, Casting Director , As: Agitator - Television
2010, Casting - Television
2011 - 2012, As: Dave Byron - Television
2007, As: Miles Grange - Television
2007, As: Miles Grange - Television
2006 - 2008, As: Mr Simpson - Television
2004, As: Dale - Film
2002 - 2003, As: Phil - Television
2001 - 2003, As: Malcolm - Television
2000, Casting - Television
2000, As: Richard, As: Richard - Film
1999, As: Private Alexander Endacott - Television
1999, As: Scott - Film
2000 - 2001, As: Eamon Dempsey - Television
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