Duane Evans Jr.

Duane Wichman-Evans Jr. is a New Zealand film and television actor. He is best known for portraying Michael Hampton-Rees, a recurring character in the TVNZ 2 prime-time soap opera and medical drama series Shortland Street (2015–2017). Evans also starred as Rotxo, a secondary character in the epic science fiction films Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) and Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025). He portrayed Royden in the 2020 action comedy feature film The Legend of Baron To'a, and Pahirua in the 2023 historical drama feature film The Convert. Evans starred as Rhino in the Netflix fantasy drama series Sweet Tooth (2021), as Michael, one of the main characters in the TVNZ+ young adult comedy miniseries Duckrockers (2022), and as Dacus, a recurring character in the Starz historical drama series Spartacus: House of Ashur.