Byron Coll

Byron Coll is a New Zealand film, theatre and television actor. He has appeared in television series such as BBC's The Luminaries, NBC's La Brea, Cowboy Bebop on Netflix, and New Zealand feature films such as Nude Tuesday, Muru and Shadow in the Cloud. 
==Early Life==
Coll was born in Christchurch. He discovered acting at high school and subsequently undertook a Bachelor of Performing Arts at Toi Whakaari: New Zealand Drama School. He graduated in 2007.
==Career==
Coll made his feature film debut in Gaylene Preston's Home By Christmas in 2010.
In 2013, he starred as petty criminal Lindsay in Louis Sutherland and Mark Albiston's feature film debut, Shopping. The film screened at Sundance Film Festival and won Best Film at the 2013 Rialto Channel New Zealand Film Awards. In the same year, he appeared in Jane Campion's television series Top of the Lake.
From 2013-2017, Coll was most well-known to New Zealand audiences as Tim, the All Blacks superfan in a series of popular Mastercard commercials.
In 2014, Coll played the WWI conscientious objector Mark Briggs in the New Zealand telemovie Field Punishment No.1 He also starred in Matthew J. Saville's award-winning short film Dive.
In 2020, he played Charlie Frost in the BBC television series The Luminaries – an adaptation of Eleanor Catton's novel of the same name – alongside Eva Green as Lydia Wells and Marton Csokas as Francis Carver. The same year, he played Scottish RAF crew member Terence Taggart in Roseanne Liang's action horror Shadow in the Cloud alongside Chloë Grace Moretz. In 2021, Coll played Mark Manley in the television series Cowboy Bebop on Netflix.
In 2022, he played Finnius in New Zealand comedy film Nude Tuesday, written by Jackie van Beek and Armağan Ballantyne and directed by Ballantyne. He also appeared as Jarrod in Muru, a New Zealand action-drama film about the 2007 New Zealand police raids of the Ngāi Tūhoe community of Rūātoki. In the same year he also appeared in NBC science fiction drama series La Brea, as Professor Franklin Marsh.
Coll is a regular cast member on sketch comedy series from Viva La Dirt League, the New Zealand professional sketch comedy YouTubers with 5.11 million subscribers as of May 2023. He features in series such as Bored, D&D Logic and Epic NPC Man.
Coll will appear in New Zealand feature films that are yet to be released, including One Winter, Christine Jeff's A Mistake, and Rachel House's debut feature The Mountain. He also will appear in the Apple TV series Time Bandits, executive produced by Taika Waititi.
Coll is also a fine art photographer and was one of Capture Magazine's Top 20 Emerging Photographers in Australasia in the Landscape category.
==Filmography==
†	Denotes works that have not yet been released
===Film===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
2010	Home By Christmas 	Hoppy 	Feature film
2013	Shopping 	Lindsay 	Feature film
2013	Jack the Giant Slayer	Soldier 	Feature film
2014	Dive 	George 	Short film
2019	Daffodils 	Stuart 	Feature film
2019	Guns Akimbo 	Skizm Goon 	Feature film
2020	This Town 	Tony 	Feature film
2020	Shadow in the Cloud 	Terence Taggart	Feature film
2022	Nude Tuesday 	Finnius 	Feature film
2022	Muru 	Jarrod 	Feature film
TBA 	The Mountain † 	Hugh 	Feature film
TBA 	One Winter † 	Coach Bullivant	Feature film
TBA 	A Mistake † 	Jason Latham 	Feature film
===Television===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
2009	Skyrunners 	Mr Hiddlebaum 	TV Movie
2010	Tangiwai: A Love Story 	Stan Avery 	TV Movie
2013	Woodville 	Sid 	Web series
2014	Bored 	Byron 	Web series
2014	Field Punishment No.1 	Mark Briggs 	TV Movie
2016	Terry Teo 	Sgt. Phipps 	TV series
2017	Power Ranger Ninja Steel 	Redbot 	TV series
2018	Power Rangers Super Ninja Steel	Clint 	TV series
2019	Educators 	Sex Ed Teacher 	TV series
2019	Wellington Paranormal 	Unhelpful Fisherman 	TV series
2020	The Luminaries 	Charlie Frost 	TV series
2020	Inside 	Gary 	TV series
2021	D&D Logic 	Wizard 	Web series
2021	Cowboy Bebop 	Mark Manley 	TV series
2021	Last at 11 	Manny Sullivan 	TV series
2022	The Brokenwood Mysteries 	Pablo Piccante 	TV series
2022	La Brea 	Franklin Marsh 	TV series
TBA 	Time Bandits † 	Loudest Voice Neanderthal	TV series
Category:People from Christchurch
Category:New Zealand people
Category:Film actors
Category:Stage actors
Category:Television actors