Emmett Skilton
Emmett Skilton was born in Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand on September 23rd, 1987 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 36, Emmett Skilton biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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While studying at Toi Whakaari, Emmett starred in the feature film Home By Christmas, based on Gaylene Preston's family during WW2. He 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.
Emmett 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. He 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,.
Most recently, Emmett stars in NBC's new single-camera comedy series, Young Rock, based on the life of Dwayne Johnson. Emmett portrays Johnson's former position coach at the University of Miami, former LSU head coach, Ed Orgeron.
From 2015 to 2017, Emmett produced and directed the comedy web series Auckward Love which centers around a young heartbroken girl in Auckland, New Zealand, in her quest to find love again from her not-so-useful best friends. He also directed the award-winning comedy series, Millennial Jenny, exclusively for Instagram TV in 2019 to present. Emmett co-directed Stan Harrington's Australian series, Legends, released in 2019.
He 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.
Most recently, Emmett has directed over 70 episodes of Shortland Street for TVNZ.
- Best Acting Ensemble – NZ Webfest 2020
- Alumni Award – NZ Webfest 2020
- Best Director of a series – Seal Beach Film Festival 2019
- Best Director of an International Web-series – Melbourne Webfest 2016
- Best Screenplay for an International Web-series – Melbourne Webfeet 2016
- Nomination for 'Rising Star' Award – TV Guide Best of the Box 2012