Nathaniel Lees

Nathaniel Lees is an New Zealand actor of Samoan descent, best known for roles in The Matrix and The Lord of the Rings The Two Towers and for starring as Chiron the centaur a role he played on Young Hercules.

Lees was born in Auckland, New Zealand. He was brought up in an environment where Samoan was commonly spoken, so he grew up thinking of himself as being Samoan. He got his first acting job because of being brown, as the theatre required brown people running around on stage killing Captain Cook. Part of the audition was him walking through the door, and upon doing so, he had the job.

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