 In 2004 he signed onto the Sydney Theatre Company production of "Hedda Gabler" as Cate Blanchett's tortured alcoholic lover Ejlert Lovberg.The production also had a 2006 season at Brooklyn Academy of Music and spawned documentary "In the Company of Actors".Compelling film cameos followed, in WW1 drama "Beneath Hill 60" and French film "The Tree", as Charlotte Gainsbourg's husband before starring as a besieged father dying from tetanus in the Kriv Stenders period gothic western "Dark Frontier" aka "Lucky Country".