Who is Brenton Thwaites?
Brenton Thwaites is an Australian actor. He played Luke Gallagher on the Fox8 teen drama series SLiDE (2011) and Stu Henderson on the Australian soap opera hit Home and Away (1988). His films include Blue Lagoon: The Awakening (2012), Oculus (2013), Maleficent (2014), and The Giver (2014). He starred in Gods of Egypt (2016) and will headline Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (2017), with Johnny Depp.
Trivia
- He is the first actor to wear Dick Grayson's famous Nightwing suit.
- He is the fifth actor to play the DC Comics character Dick Grayson after Douglas Croft, Johnny Duncan, Burt Ward and Chris O'Donnell and the first one to play him as Nightwing instead of Batman's sidekick Robin.
- He is the first non-American actor to play Dick Grayson/Robin.
- He is the first actor to play Dick Grayson/Robin in a live-action adaptation since Chris O'Donnell in Batman & Robin (1997).
- He is the first actor to play Dick Grayson/Robin in a non-Batman adaptation in a non-animated Role. Scott Menville holds the title for first animated Robin in an animated one.