Hunter Page-Lochard rolls with the punches in Kid Snow
In the midst of a successful streak of contemporary television roles, the actor joins a cast a fellow rising Aussie stars for director Paul Goldman’s ’70s-set drama
Growing up in a family of acclaimed dancers, Hunter Page-Lochard saw firsthand how moving the body could move the soul. Enmeshed in theatre arts from childhood, he discovered that the quicker he could master choreography or learn how to behave as naturally as a character would, the better he could manifest the essence of that character. “As actors, you’re always looking for something interesting to do and for something that you want to do that’s impactful,” he says. “It’s something more than background noise. You grow as a person.”
With that in mind, Page-Lochard has battled flames in the 2021 series Fires and hit the surf in 2022’s Barons. In February 2024, he won the AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama for his powerful portrayal of Indigenous rights activist Lynus Preston in season two of The Newsreader. In each instance, he says the physical demands of the role have informed him as an actor. “You take the elements from everything,” he explains. “Fires is probably a really good example. It’s not so much that I left that going, ‘Oh, I know how to firefight now.’ But it’s like you understood what a certain demographic goes through, what that workforce…
