Myles Pollard

Myles Pollard

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Myles Pollard is a leading Australian actor with an extensive career across film, television, and theatre since graduating from NIDA in 1998.

On television, he’s best known for his long-running role as Nick Ryan in McLeod’s Daughters (Nine Network), which earned him a TV Week Silver Logie nomination for Most Popular Actor in 2004. Other notable credits include Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities, Rescue: Special Ops, Sea Patrol, Double Trouble, Water Rats, East West 101 (SBS), Packed to the Rafters, Home and Away, Wildside, and the acclaimed ABC series The War That Changed Us. More recent appearances include Mystery Road (Season 2), The Heights (Season 2), Itch (Season 2), The Invisible Boys, and Superwogs 3.

His film work includes roles such as Phelan in X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Boyce in Thirst, Dan in The Turning (opposite Rose Byrne), Detective Monaghan in Foreshadow, and Andy in Drift (opposite Sam Worthington), which he also co-produced. Additional film credits include Looking for Grace, Jasper Jones (directed by Rachel Perkins), The Gateway, Danger Close (dir. Kriv Stenders), Before Dawn (as Sgt. Beaufort), How to Please a Woman (as Richard), Frank and Frank (dir. Adam Morris), and the upcoming Frederickstown.

In theatre, Myles has performed in Boy Gets Girl and A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Black Swan Theatre Company, The Glass Menagerie, Mistero Buffo (B Sharp/Belvoir St), Love Letters (NIDA), End of the Rainbow (Ensemble Theatre), and multiple productions with Bell Shakespeare including Romeo and Juliet and The Winter’s Tale. He played Andy Dixon in Extinction, featured in Sydney II: Lost and Found, and starred in the critically acclaimed City of Gold (Black Swan/Sydney Theatre Company), directed by Shari Sebbens.