Steve Mouzakis

Bio

Steve is an award-winning film, television and theatre actor known for his performances in Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are, as well as Van Gogh in Prison break, Detective Zach DeLuca in the hit Netflix series Clickbait, Why Are you Like This, Late Night with the Devil, and  more recently starring with Joel Edgerton in The Stranger.

Theatre credits include POV (Rising Festival), The Removalists, A Streetcar Named Desire, What If, If Only, The Lifespan of a Fact, Golden Shield, Death and the Maiden and The Cherry Orchard all for Melbourne Theatre Company; Melancholia for Malthouse Theatre, and Cafe Rebetika for Victorian Arts Centre.  Steve also starred in the Australian premiere production of Viewing Blue Poles, performed at Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney.

Other screen credits include television series NCIS Sydney, Irreverent, Why Are you Like This, Clickbait and a main cast role in US series Prison Break.  Additional film credits include Inside, Sugar Mountain, I Frankenstein, Darkness Falls, as well as My First Summer, Acute Misfortune, Scare Campaign, Downriver, The Suicide Theory and Big Mamma’s Boy.  Additional television credits include Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries, Wentworth, Jack Irish, Fat Tony & Co, The Slap, Killing Time and The Secret Life of Us in an ongoing role, to name just a few.

Awards include: St Kilda Film Festival – Recipient Best Actor Award – HIRAETH (2025); Green Room Awards – Recipient Best Male Performer – THE CHERRY ORCHARD (2014); St Kilda Film Festival – Recipient Best Actor Award – JOEY (2013); MIFF (Melbourne International Film Festival):  Recipient Best Actor in a short film | Special Citation – 296 SMITH ST (2008).