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Name: Joel Tobeck
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Date of Birth:
June 02, 1971
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Place of Birth:
Auckland, New Zealand
Mini-bio:
Character actor Joel Tobeck specialized in ominous portrayals, particularly those in fantasy adventure sagas. From project to project, Tobeck's extremely unique and unconventional look set him apart f... read morerom the pack, often (though not always) inclining him to creepy villainous roles. Tobeck's credits officially date back to the mid-'80s, but he first achieved a high profile during the following decade with guest work on the small-screen series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. On that program, Tobeck played a string of characters including the bellicose war god Strife and the malevolently prankish deity Deimos, both of whom caused extreme trouble for Hercules over the course of multiple episodes. Next, Tobeck joined a cast of thousands and worked under the aegis of Peter Jackson on the fantasy opus The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003), where he played an Orc lieutenant. If this assignment seemed a dramatic step up from what had preceded it, however, the best was still yet to come. The actor reached something of a career high in 2007, with a sequence of back-to-back roles in theatrical releases. That year, he tackled the offbeat part of Damien in the aggressively eccentric and offbeat character comedy Eagle vs. Shark, landed a supporting turn in the the vampire horror film 30 Days of Night, and also appeared in the mythical children's fantasy The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
Joel Tobeck mini-bio: Joel was born into a theatrical family, his mother Liddy Holloway was a well known television and stage actress in New Zealand. From a very early age Joel was surrounded by the goings on of the theater. He would accompany his mother to work and along the way acquired lots of 'uncles' and 'aunties' who were happy to look after him in the Green Room him while his mother was on stage.
At age 5 the inevitable happened, and Joel was cast alongside Liddy in the Mercury Theatre's production of "The Dutchess of Malfi."
