ONE of the drawcards at the Gold Coast Supanova Pop Culture Expo, Manu Bennett cut his teeth as an actor on the Gold Coast back in 1993 as one of the stars of locally filmed TV soap Paradise Beach ...

Fans know Manu Bennett on TV as Crixus in “Spartacus” and Deathstroke from “Arrow”, as well as Azog the Defiler in “The Hobbit” films.