Date of Birth
20 November 1988, Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Height
5' 9¼" (1.76 m)
Mini Biography
Rhys Wakefield was born in Cairns, Queensland on 20 November 1988. He had some minor roles in a few shows, but his big break came when he won the role of Lucas Holden in "Home and Away" (1988) in August 2005. He plays the son of Tony (Jon Sivewright) and brother of Jack (Paul O'Brien). He had never met his "Father and Brother", so they all went to dinner to get to know each other before starting on the show. He now resides with his family in Sydney. Is the 2nd youngest member of Home and Away (youngest is 15 year-old Indiana Evans, who plays his girlfriend Matilda).
Trivia
Went to the same school as Sarah Murdoch (O'Hare), Nikki Webster, Josh Quong Tart, Bojana Novakovic and many other prominent Australians in the entertainment industry.
Personal Quotes
[on the underpants scene in The Black Ballon]: I'm the kind of guy that gets nervous being half-naked in my room, so considering there was a whole crew as well as randoms in their cars watching... yeah, I was pretty freaked out about it.
Uh, what can I say... Kissing a supermodel? All in a day's work! Actually, that was really nerve-wracking. I was more nervous to meet her than I was to meet Toni Collette, because I knew we'd have to get personal. And, you know, she's a supermodel... and I'm not. - On kissing Gemma Ward in The Black Balloon (2008)
We wore massive tracksuits and laid out cushions so we could wrestle, and we played Twister and danced to '90s music so, by the time those kissing scenes happened, we felt really comfortable with each other. - On how the director of The Black Balloon (2008) helped Rhys and Gemma Ward break the barrier before their kissing scene in the movie
I met the director's [Elissa Down] brother - whom Charlie is based on - and Luke Ford, who plays Charlie, and I went road-testing in character. We went around the shopping center and to the movies, and it was surprising to see how people reacted to us, how ignorant some people are about autism. Some people assumed he was some kind of axe-murderer out to get them, so they'd freeze up or they'd give us really weird stares like we were the freaks. - On road-testing for The Black Balloon (2008)
