Rhys Wakefield is an Australian actor and director whose films have grossed over $250 million worldwide. He first started out as a regular on the Australian TV series Home and Away where he starred in 363 episodes. He played the lead in James Cameron's thriller Sanctum, the Polite Leader in The Purge franchise and was nominated for Best Actor in a Feature Film by the Australian Film Institute and the Australian Film Critics Circle for his role in The Black Balloon. Wakefield co-wrote and directed the short film A Man Walks Into a Bar, which was a finalist at the 2013 Tropfest International Short Film Festival in Sydney. In 2016, his screenplay Please Close the Gate was officially selected for the Beverly Hills Film Festival and was a feature finalist at the Cinequest Screenwriting competition. His next film, Berserk, will be released in theaters on April 5th 2019 and stars Nick Cannon, Nora Arnezeder and James Roday. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Anonymous
