Alex O'Loughlin

Alex OLoughlin is an Australian actor writer and director who plays Lieutenant Commander Steve McGarrett on CBS remake of the TV series Hawaii Five0 He had starring roles in the films Oyster Farmer 2004 and The Backup Plan 2010 as well as on such television series as Moonlight 2008 and Three Rivers 2009 OLoughlin was born on 24 August 1976 in Canberra Australia of Irish and Scottish descentHis father is a physics and astronomy teacher in Sydney and his mother is a nurse OLoughlin suffered from obsessivecompulsive disorder when he was a child He enrolled at the National Institute of Dramatic Art NIDA in Sydney in 1999 and graduated in June 2002 after completing a threeyear fulltime Bachelor of Dramatic Art program OLoughlin began working in short films and fringe theatre as a teenager in Sydney One of his first acting jobs was an extra in a commercial playing a Marine After graduating from NIDA National Institute of Dramatic Arts he began his career in Australian television and film productions Some of his TV credits include roles in BlackJack Sweet Science Love Bytes and White Collar Blue