1. Don Hany was born on 18 September 1975 and is an Australian film, television and stage actor.
29 Facts About Don Hany
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Don Hany has received a number of accolades and nominations.
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Don Hany won a Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actor, playing the protagonist, Zane Malik, in the SBS series East West 101.
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Don Hany received three AACTA Awards nominations for the role.
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Don Hany had an early role playing Senior Constable Theo Rahme in the Network 10 police drama series White Collar Blue for two seasons.
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Don Hany played Dr Chris Havel in the Network 10 comedy-drama series Offspring.
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Don Hany played Dr Mackenzie in the Showcase mystery romantic drama series Picnic at Hanging Rock.
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Don Hany played the Australian prime minister in the second season of Showcase political thriller television series Secret City.
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Don Hany is best known to American audiences for starring in the NBC medical comedy-drama series Heartbeat.
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Don Hany's parents met in Budapest in the 1960s and they emigrated to Australia in 1970.
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Don Hany's parents divorced during his adolescence, and he and his twin brother were raised by their mother.
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Don Hany grew up on the Central Coast of New South Wales.
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Don Hany attended high school in the Netherlands for one year as an exchange student, and later completed a degree in dramatic arts at the University of Western Sydney Nepean.
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In 1998, Don Hany began his television career, starring in the soapie Breakers.
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Don Hany later moved to Los Angeles to complete shooting for the short film Winning the Peace.
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Don Hany plays an Iraqi-American Marine deployed to Baghdad, and he went on to win the Best Actor award at Method Fest in 2005.
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In 2010, Don Hany won the Logie Award for Most Outstanding Actor, having been previously nominated for the same role in 2008.
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In 2009, Don Hany starred in the two-part Australian television mini-series False Witness for BBC UKTV.
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Don Hany played the role of Sergei Krousov, a Russian mafia figure.
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Don Hany joined Channel Ten's comedy-drama series Offspring, in the role of paediatrician Chris Havel.
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Don Hany played the love interest and colleague of the series' protagonist, Dr Nina Proudman, played by Asher Keddie.
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In 2011, Don Hany starred in the Nine Network movie premiere of Underbelly Files: Tell Them Lucifer was Here, reprising his role from Underbelly, Nik Radev.
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In 2013, Don Hany took the lead role of Sam Callaghan in the HBO Asia production Serangoon Road.
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Don Hany plays Viktor, an Iranian prisoner in a low-security correctional centre, close to the end of his 18-year prison sentence.
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The medical drama series, with Don Hany playing a military doctor, was not picked up for a series order.
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Don Hany received a nomination for AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role, losing out to Dev Patel in Lion.
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In 2018, Don Hany starred in Foxtel's Showcase mystery romantic drama television series Picnic at Hanging Rock, a television adaptation of the 1967 novel of the same name by Joan Lindsay.
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In 2019, Don Hany played Australian prime minister Ewan Garrety in the second season of the political thriller Secret City, alongside Anna Torv.
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Don Hany subsequently withdrew from the production for personal reasons and the role was recast with Nathan Page.