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If actors and actresses from down under are famous for eventual migrations to Hollywood, actor Brian Sergent breaks the mold. From the mid-'80s onward, the New Zealand native contributed to a number of the best-known productions from his country's indigenous film industry. He enjoyed a series of ongoing collaborations with gross-out king-turned-Hollywood wunderkind Peter Jackson, on the director's Meet the Feebles (1989), Dead Alive (1992), and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001). Sergent also portrayed Jonah in Taika Waititi's deadpan romantic comedy Eagle vs. Shark (2007).