Steve Mouzakis

Steve Mouzakis is an Australian actor who studied at the Victorian College of the Arts after earlier university work in arts and engineering, graduating with the Irene Mitchell Award for his Pericles in a George Ogilvie production. Stage work in Christos Tsiolkas' Viewing Blue Poles took him from Melbourne's Fitzroy Gallery to the Belvoir St. Theatre in Sydney, and his first television part was Paolo in The Secret Life of Us. Jonathan Liebesman then cast him in the horror film Darkness Falls (2003). Smaller films, including the shorts Mona Lisa and 296 Smith Street, brought him to Spike Jonze's attention for Where the Wild Things Are (2009). His television credits include Very Small Business, The Slap, Killing Time and Blue Heelers; film work includes Big Mamma's Boy and I, Frankenstein (2014). He played Steven Ray in The Suicide Theory, Van Gogh in the 2017 return of Prison Break and Paul in The Stranger (2022).