1. Emmett Skilton was born on 23 September 1987 and is a New Zealand actor and director.
12 Facts About Emmett Skilton
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Emmett Skilton played the lead character, Axl Johnson, in the comedy-drama, The Almighty Johnsons, and most recently had roles in Avatar: The Way of Water and American comedy series Young Rock, portraying Dwayne Johnson's real-life college football coach, Ed Orgeron.
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Emmett Skilton grew up in Titahi Bay and attended Mana College, all in his home town of Titahi Bay.
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Emmett Skilton graduated at the end of 2009 with a Bachelor of Performing Arts in Acting and began starring as Axl Johnson in The Almighty Johnsons from 2010.
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Emmett Skilton played real-life figures Sam Giancana in US series The Making of the Mob: Chicago in 2016 and Victor Lownes in American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story in 2017.
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Emmett Skilton went on to star in James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water, The Sounds, New Zealand and Canadian co-production, Together Forever Tea, Amazon Prime's American Playboy: The Hugh Hefner Story,.
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Emmett Skilton recently starred in NBC's new single-camera comedy series, Young Rock, based on the life of Dwayne Johnson.
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Emmett Skilton portrays Johnson's former position coach at the University of Miami, former LSU head coach, Ed Orgeron.
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From 2015 to 2017, Emmett Skilton produced and directed the comedy web series Auckward Love which centres around a young heartbroken girl in Auckland, New Zealand, in her quest to find love again from her not-so-useful best friends.
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Emmett Skilton directed the award-winning comedy series, Millennial Jenny, exclusively for Instagram TV in 2019 to present.
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Emmett Skilton co-directed Stan Harrington's Australian series, Legends, released in 2019.
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Emmett Skilton is a screen tutor at leading drama school The Actors Program and directed their 2017 and 2018 graduation films, Ripple and 13 Suspects, the latter written by The Almighty Johnsons co-creator Rachel Lang.