Nicholas Cooper

Nicholas G Cooper was born in Queensland Australia As the son from a long line of bricklayers Nicholas played rugby football in Sydney for a while During his time with the National Rugby League NRL his first minor piece of work in acting was for a romance promotional Although the agency kept his name on their books it ultimately did not yield any future results Afterwards he moved to Brisbane where he revealed to a friends girlfriend his desire to pursue acting The girlfriend who was a model introduced him to her agency where he was recommended to audition for several acting schools After completing his training in Brisbane he worked in Sydney for two years only auditioning 3 times for work in commercials He set up a production company back in Queensland doing street theatre to support himself as well as to create original work Later on Nicholass production company was approached with the project of making a new Star Trek exhibit in Valencia Spain The project showed the process that went behind bringing the Star Trek series to life and he described this as his first solid breakthrough and a great experience Its first exhibit showing later called for Nicholas and his company to bring it to Film Park in Babelsberg Germany Nicholass screenwork first started in 2005 and has balanced out across a range of film shorts featurelength films and television appearances His more notable feature film appearances include the television horrorthriller feature Malibu Shark Attack 2009 TV in which he played a survivor of a catastrophic tsunami that floods the entire Malibu beach area infesting it with prehistoric goblin sharks The year after Nicholas played a minor nobleman Duke Henry in the fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Beast 2010 He also made episodic appearances on the 2011 SciFi adventure series Terra Nova TV Nicholas still keeps busy with family and his production company