David Hoflin

David Hoflin 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.

Early life Hoflin was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He and his family moved to Australia when he was four years old.

After appearing in 1990 film Breakaway, 1992 miniseries Good Vibrations and drama series Law of the Land, Hoflin landed his breakthrough role in 1994, playing older brother Jason, one of the lead male characters in children's fantasy series Ocean Girl, over its four year run. The romantic chemistry between his character and that of Marzena Godecki's character, Neri, is one of the central themes of the series. The show was syndicated around the world including on the Disney channel in the US.

Further early credits included shows such as The Flying Doctors, A Country Practice, State Coroner, and The Lost World.

In 2001, he played one of the main characters, Patrick Gormley, in the teen drama Head Start. Patrick was described as "blunt, conservative and sceptical of anything new", and he was also protective of his sister Clare, played by Nadia Townsend. Hoflin filmed his last scenes on 6 May 2008, the same day as fellow cast member Daniel O'Connor, but reprised his role in April 2011, for a two-week guest stint.

Hoflin joined the cast of American series Alcatraz in 2012, playing Thomas 'Tommy' Madsen, a supposedly deceased, former Alcatraz inmate who disappeared in 1963, who was also Rebecca Madsen's grandfather. In 2013, he was seen in drama series Touch with Kiefer Sutherland and in a season 8 episode of police procedural series Criminal Minds. The following year, he appeared in action-adventure drama series Crossbones, before guesting in Supernatural in 2015.

In 2015, Hoflin played F. Scott Fitzgerald, American author of The Greatest Gatsby, opposite Christina Ricci in Amazon Prime series Z: The Beginning of Everything.

In 2020, Hoflin featured as Officer Lowe in psychological thriller feature Fatale, with Hilary Swank and Michael Ealy. He then played Buck Johnson in 2021 black comedy film Decrypted, before landing the role of Daniel in the Amazon Prime series The Peripheral, starring alongside Chloë Grace Moretz.

Personal life Hoflin began a relationship with his Neighbours co-star Natalie Blair in 2008, while working on the series together. They married on 4 January 2013 in Warburton, Victoria.

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 Sam Short film 2005 Stranded Cam Feature film

Television Year Title Role Notes 1991 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 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" 2004Blue Heelers Scott Drummond TV series, episode: "Running Scared" 2004McLeod'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 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