Benedict Wall

Benedict Wall (born 17 June) is a New Zealand film, theatre and television actor. From 2011, Wall played Owen Sutherland in the New Zealand soap opera Shortland Street. He has also appeared in Outrageous Fortune, Underbelly: Badness, Breaker Morant: The Retrial and Pirates of the Airwaves. Wall co-wrote and directed the short film Best Mates. In 2016, he took over the role of Duncan Stewart in the Australian soap opera Home and Away. He also appeared in the Network Ten miniseries Brock.

Early and personal life Wall was born in Auckland and grew up in Wellington.

Wall has been in a relationship with actress Jessica Grace Smith since 2010. The couple live in Sydney. Wall and Smith got engaged in November 2019, and they married in New Zealand on 8 February 2020. In July 2021, they announced they were expecting their first child.

Career Wall played Ben on Outrageous Fortune in 2007. In 2011, Wall received an audition for the medical soap opera Shortland Street and he was cast in the recurring role of ED consultant Owen Sutherland. He also made a guest appearance in Underbelly: Badness.

Wall portrayed Breaker Morant in Breaker Morant: The Retrial, a television documentary filmed in Charters Towers. He starred as pirate radio host Rick Grant in the 2014 docudrama Pirates of the Airwaves, which tells the story of the founding of Radio Hauraki. The following year, he appeared in James Raue's low budget feature film Psychoanalysis. He was also cast in the Australian feature film The Pretend One, alongside Geraldine Hakewill and David Field. The film was shot in Queensland and released in 2016.

Wall and fellow actor Tai Hara co-wrote the black comedy film Best Mates. Wall also directed and acted in the short, alongside Hara and Jessica Grace Smith. Best Mates received a nomination for Best Live Action Short Film at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

In 2016, Wall took over the role of Duncan Stewart in Home and Away. The character had not been part of the show for ten years. Wall had auditioned for Home and Away several times before he was cast as Duncan. He received a recall for the part of Martin Ashford, Wall plays the role of Jones in 2020 television drama Operation Buffalo, a friend of Major Leo Carmichael played by Ewen Leslie.

Filmography Year Title Role Notes 2007 The Amazing Extraordinary Friends Damon Episode: "Captain X-posed" 2007 Reckless Behavior: Caught on Tape Cliff 2007 Outrageous Fortune Ben Episode: "What Did You Enact?" 2008 Jinx Sister Faceless Lover 2009 John Safran's Race Relations Jeremy Weinstein 2011 Shortland Street Owen Sutherland 2012 Ten Thousand Days Darby Short film 2012 Underbelly: Badness Ben Dokic 2013 Breaker Morant: The Retrial Breaker Morant 2014 Pirates of the Airwaves Rick Grant 2015 Psychoanalysis Paul Symmonds 2015 Ready for This Officer Waters Episode: "A Wonderful Day" 2016 Best Mates Dom Also co-writer and director 2016 Brock Tony Roberts 2016 Home and Away Duncan Stewart 2016 The Pretend One Guy 2017 James Patterson's Murder is Forever Andrew 2020 The Flood Kelly Mckay 2020 Operation Buffalo Jones 2020 Shadow in the Cloud Tommy Dorn 2022 No ExitRon Hill