Education
Sunderland graduated from Toi Whakaari in 1997.Career
Sunderland starred as Uncle Rory in Daniel Borgman's debut feature ''The Weight of Elephants''. He was nominated for a Best Actor Award in the 2006 NZ Screen Awards for ''Nature's Way'', which screened In Competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006. His other feature film roles include ''A Song of Good,'' ''Christmas,'' ''Stringer'' ''Woodenhead'' '' Existence'', and '' The Devil's Rock''. Sunderland made his directorial and screenwriting debut with the short film ''Tuffy'', which deals with estrangement between a father and son, in small town New Zealand. In 2013, Sunderland played in the stage adaption of Kate Grenville’s Booker Prize-shortlisted '' The Secret River'' with the Sydney Theatre Company, which toured throughout Australia. He also appeared in '' Shortland Street'' as White Dragon, in a storyline concluding the three-year Kieran Mitchell story arc. In 2016, Sunderland played the role of a drunken man resisting alien abduction in the music video for "Bergschrund" by DJ Shadow and Nils Frahm. Sunderland played the chemist, Joseph Pritchard in the 2020 miniseries '' The Luminaries''.Filmography
Film
Television
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