Blair Strang

{{Short description|New Zealand actor}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=May 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}} {{Infobox person |name = Blair Strang |image = |caption = |birth_name =  |birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1972|3|15}} |birth_place = New Zealand |occupation = Actor |years_active = 1988–present |spouse = {{marriage|Katrina Devine|2001||end=divorced}} }} '''Blair Strang''' (born 15 March 1972) is a New Zealand Māori actor. He is most noted for playing ambulance driver Rangi Heremaia on New Zealand's longest-running soap opera, ''Shortland Street'', between 1995 and 2001 and Brian King on ''Nothing Trivial'' from 2011 to 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/1401456|title=Auckland Mayoral chains attract the celebrity vote|last=Harward|first=Esther|date=15 February 2009|work=Sunday Star Times |accessdate=1 February 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=173633|title=Medical reasons force TV soap star to bow out|date=24 February 2001|work=The New Zealand Herald|accessdate=1 February 2010}}</ref>

==Early life== Born to a Pākehā father of Scottish descent and a Māori mother,<ref name="NZHerald187353"/> he attended Saint Kentigern College, Pakuranga, where he was Head Prefect.<ref name="NZHerald187353">{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=187353&pnum=0|title=Local play is all kids' stuff|date=7 May 2001|work=The New Zealand Herald|accessdate=1 February 2010}}</ref>

==Filmography== * ''Falling Inn Love'' – Anaaki<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0833333/|title=Blair Strang|website=IMDb}}</ref> * ''Nothing Trivial'' – Brian King * ''Kaitangata Twitch'' – Sebastian Cardwell * ''Shortland Street'' – Rangi Heremaia * ''Go Girls'' – Joseph * ''Doves of War'' – Joe Matich * ''Orange Roughies'' – D.S. Sean Parkes * ''So You Wanna Be a Popstar?'' – a singer * ''Power Rangers S.P.D.'' – Bork (voice) * ''Maiden Voyage: Ocean Hijack'' – Enrique * ''Deceit'' – Karl * ''Mataku'' – Uncle Eru (Season 1 Episode 3: Going to War) * ''Best Bits'' – Himself * ''Happy Birthday 2 You'' – Paramedic Rangi Heremia * ''Look Who's Famous Now'' – Himself * ''Interrogation'' * ''Homeland'' * ''Power Rangers Dino Fury'' – Warden Carlos Garcia * ''Choose Love'' – Dan * ''Power Rangers Cosmic Fury'' – Warden Carlos Garcia

==Career== As well as ''Shortland Street'', Strang has appeared in television dramas ''Doves of War'' (for TV3), ''Orange Roughies'' (TV 1), ''Interrogation'' (Prime TV), ''Go Girls'' and ''Nothing Trivial''. He also made an appearance on ''So You Wanna be a Popstar?'', hosted by Oliver Driver, and starring Katrina Hobbs, and regularly appears in a variety of roles as a guest star or extra.

He completed filming Māori Television's new family drama, ''Kaitangata Twitch'', which is an adaptation of the children's book by author, Margaret Mahy. He has also completed a successful New Zealand tour of the theatre piece, Whero's New Net and co starred in the TV drama Nothing Trivial and Homeland.

He recently acted in the 2023 Netflix movie ''Choose Love'' in the role of Dan, boss of the main character.

==Personal life== He has an LLB from the University of Auckland, majoring in entertainment law,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.johnsonlaird.com/assets/documents/1299/1299_actor_biography.pdf|title=Actor Biography – Blair Strang|publisher=Johnson & Laird|accessdate=1 February 2010}}</ref> and is a practising family lawyer in Albany at North Shore Legal Chambers.

He married his former ''Shortland Street'' co-star Katrina Devine on 10 November 2001;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=218843|title=Couple's gift list shockingly short|last=Cleave|first=Louisa|date=26 September 2001|work=The New Zealand Herald|accessdate=1 February 2010}}</ref> the couple later divorced.{{cn|date=May 2025}}

==Awards== In 2008, he won ''Metro'' magazine's "Outstanding Performance of the Year" award in a theatre piece with Massive Theatre Company called Whero's New Net.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/features/arts/2727246/Home-is-where-the-heart-is|title='Home is where the heart is' |date=6 August 2009|work=Waikato Times |accessdate=1 February 2010}}</ref>

==External links== * {{IMDb name|0833333}}

==References== {{reflist}}

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