# David Hoflin

David Hoflin (/ˈdɑːvɪd/; born 25 February 1979) is a Swedish-born Australian actor. He played Jason Bates in Ocean Girl between 1994 and 1998, and Oliver Barnes in Neighbours between 2007 and 2008.

## Career

He has appeared in TV shows such as Ocean Girl, The Flying Doctors, Head Start, A Country Practice, McLeod's Daughters, Supernatural, State Coroner, Crossbones, and The Lost World.
Hoflin was ten when he played his first role alongside Meryl Streep and Sam Neill in Evil Angels (released as A Cry in the Dark outside of Australia and New Zealand), a film about the case where a dingo stole baby Azaria Chamberlain from her tent at Uluru.
In the Australian medical drama All Saints, he played the character Kieran who had become heavily intoxicated with alcohol at a rave and subsequently passed out and neglected his younger sister, who was later raped by his friend Lewis.
In Ocean Girl, he played one of the lead male characters. The romantic chemistry between his character and that of Marzena Godecki's character, Neri is one of the central themes of the series.
Hoflin joined Neighbours in 2007 as Oliver Barnes. He received the job without auditioning after Christian Clark quit with immediate effect. He filmed his last scenes on 6 May 2008, the same day as fellow cast member Daniel O'Connor. Hoflin returned to Neighbours in April 2011 for a two-week guest stint.
Hoflin joined the cast of Alcatraz in 2012. He plays Thomas "Tommy" Madsen, a supposedly deceased, former Alcatraz inmate who disappeared in 1963. He is Rebecca Madsen's grandfather. In 2013 he was also seen on Touch and on Season 8, Episode 20 of Criminal Minds. In 2014 he appears in Crossbones. In 2015 he was a guest star in Supernatural. Hoflin currently plays Daniel in the Amazon Prime Video series The Peripheral.

## Personal life

Hoflin was born in Stockholm, Sweden
Hoflin began a relationship with his Neighbours co-star Natalie Blair in 2008. The pair currently live together in Los Angeles. They married on 4 January 2013 in Warburton, Victoria. Blair and Hoflin welcomed their first child, a son, on 29 July 2016.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1988 | Evil Angels (aka A Cry in the Dark) | Aidan (8 years) | Feature film |
| 1990 | Breakaway (aka Escape from Madness) | Geoffrey | Feature film |
| 2003 | Swimming Upstream | Harold Fingleton Jr. | Feature film |
| 2003 | The Cadet | Sam | Short film |
| 2005 | Stranded | Cam | Feature film |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1991 | The Flying Doctors | James Fraser | TV series, episode: "A Little Miracle" |
| 1992 | Good Vibrations | Donovan | TV miniseries |
| 1994 | Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left | Bindy | TV series, episode: "Qwrk Lands on His Feet" |
| 1994 | Law of the Land | Joe Rankin | TV series, episode: "The Last Run" |
| 1994–97 | Ocean Girl | Jason Bates | TV series |
| 1998 | State Coroner | Andy Riordan | TV series, episode: "Watershed" |
| 2000 | Flipper | Robie | T V series, episode: "The Inquiry" |
| 2000 | The Lost World | Gideon | TV series, episode: "The Chosen One" |
| 2000 | Eugénie Sandler P.I. | Peter Mitchell | TV series, episodes: "1.3", "1.4" |
| 2001 | Head Start | Patrick Gormley | TV series |
| 2002 | All Saints | Keiran Sharkey | TV series, episode: "M For Memory" |
| 2004 | Blue Heelers | Scott Drummond | TV series, episode: "Running Scared" |
| 2004 | McLeod's Daughters | Paul Kendall | TV series, 2 episodes: "Every Breath You Take", "My Brother's Keeper" |
| 2007–08 | Neighbours | Oliver Barnes | TV series |
| 2010 | Big Love | First Son | TV series, episode: "Blood Atonement" |
| 2010 | NCIS: Los Angeles | Former Navy Lt. Lance Talbot | TV series, episode: "Disorder" |
| 2011 | Love Begins | Jake Weller | TV film |
| 2011 | Neighbours | Oliver Barnes | TV series, episodes: "1.6116", "1.6117" |
| 2011 | RCVR | Lohman | TV series, episode: "Little Green Men" |
| 2012 | Alcatraz | Tommy Madsen | Recurring role |
| 2012 | The Beauty Inside | Alex #9 | TV series, episode: "Hello My Name Is Alex" |
| 2012 | Major Crimes | Special Agent Goodwin | TV series, episode: "Long Shot" |
| 2012 | NCIS | Randall J. Kersey | TV series, episode: "Shell Shock: Parts 1 & 2" |
| 2013 | Criminal Minds | Chad Dumont | TV series, episode: "Alchemy" |
| 2013 | Touch | William Norburg | TV series |
| 2014 | Crossbones | Charlie Rider | TV series |
| 2015 | Hawaii Five-0 | Frank Simpson | TV series, episode: "Nanahu" |
| 2015 | Supernatural | Eldon Styne | TV series, 2,episodes: "Dark Dynasty", "The Prisoner" |
| 2015 | American Crime | Mark Skokie | TV series |
| 2016 | Mad Dogs | Johan | TV series, 2 episodes: "Xtabai", "Needles" |
| 2016 | NCIS: New Orleans | Daniel Nolan | TV series, episode: "If It Bleeds, It Leads" |
| 2016 | Once Upon a Time | Zeus | TV series, episode: "Last Rites" |
| 2017 | Z: The Beginning of Everything | F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| 2017 | Supergirl | Rick Malverne | TV series, episode: "Alex" |
| 2018 | Bosch | Detective Doug Rooker | TV series |
| 2018 | God Friended Me | Charles Cole | TV series, episode: "17 Years" |
| 2022 | The Peripheral | Daniel | TV series |