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Manu Bennett : ウィキペディア英語版 | Manu Bennett
Manu Bennett (born 10 October 1969), also known as Jon Bennett, is an Australian-New Zealand actor. He is known for his portrayal as the Gallic gladiator Crixus in the Starz television series ''Spartacus''. He has also appeared as Azog the Defiler in Peter Jackson's three-part film adaptation based on ''The Hobbit'' by J. R. R. Tolkien, as supervillain Slade Wilson/Deathstroke in The CW TV series ''Arrow'' and as Allanon in the upcoming MTV series ''The Shannara Chronicles'', based on the ''Shannara'' novel series by Terry Brooks. == Early life == Born in New Zealand, Bennett's mother was an Australian bikini model, his father a New Zealand singer. The family moved to Australia when Bennett was a few months old. On his father's side, Bennett is of Māori (specifically Te Arawa and Ngāti Kahungunu) and Irish descent. His mother is of Scottish descent. He was raised mostly between Sydney and Newcastle in Australia, where he attended Merewether High School. In 1986, Bennett returned to New Zealand to attend Te Aute College, where he played for the 1st XV. Upon returning to Australia, Bennett was chosen in the New South Wales Schoolboys Rugby Union Team. Interested in modern dancing, classical ballet and piano, Bennett quit rugby to attend university to study dance and drama, then traveled to Los Angeles on a scholarship to attend the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. In an interview, Bennett talked about the car accident that killed his mother and brother and put him in a two-week coma. He cites that because of his girlfriend, who was a ballet dancer, he got into acting and found it to be the medium to which direct his emotions saying, "Acting was my route to survival."
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