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| NAME: Kevin Tod Smith NICKNAME: Smithy DATE OF BIRTH: March 16, 1963 PLACE OF BIRTH: Auckland, New Zealand SPOUSE: Suzanne (1984-present) two children, Oscar (born in 1991) and Tyrone (born 1993) TRIVIA: He was in a band named "Say Yes to Apes" from 1983-1986, playing guitar and singing lead. The band made 3 albums Also plays Iphicles, the half-brother of Hercules in Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. |
| Born in Auckland, where he spent his early childhood, Kevin moved with his family to the small rural town of Timaru in New Zealand's South Island when he was 11. During high school, he began playing in rock-and-roll bands, but never aspired to a career as an actor. He had a passion for rugby and his dream was to play for the All Blacks, New Zealand's world-famous rugby team. At 17, Kevin moved to Christchurch and worked at various jobs to pay the rent before enrolling in Canterbury University at the age of 20. He married his childhood sweetheart, Sue, and stumbled into acting literally by accident when he suffered a concussion playing college rugby in 1987. He was forced to sit on the sidelines for nearly three weeks and during that period, Sue saw a casting call ad for the touring company of Are You Lonesome Tonight, the musical tribute to Elvis Presley, and signed Kevin up for an audition. He landed the part of one of the bodyguards and was understudy to the lead. Smith went on to perform in the Mercury Theatre productions of Let's Do It, Rose Tattoo, Ladies Night and Fallen Angels before starring as another bad boy in the primetime drama Marlin Bay. His role on the show lasted two seasons and earned him a 1995 New Zealand Film and Television Award for Best Supporting Actor. Since then, he has recurred as Ares in more than two dozen episodes of Hercules and Xena. He has also made several appearances in Hercules as the demigod's mortal half-brother, Iphicles. Kevin has also played in a number of alternative rock bands in New Zealand and he is currently one of the lead singers of The Wide Lapels, a local band which has inspired rave reviews and a devoted following for its camp renderings of the worst songs of the '70s -- songs like "Take a Letter", "Maria", "Tell Laura I Love Her" and "Billy, Don't be a Hero" - which qualify for the group's repertoire on the basis of having bad lyrics that don't get better with time. X:WP playing Ares in: "Reckoning, The" (episode # 1.6) "Ties That Bind" (episode # 1.20) "Ten Little Warlords" (episode # 2.8) "Xena Scrolls, The" (episode # 2.10) "Furies, The" (episode # 3.1) "Deliverer, The" (episode # 3.4) "Quill Is Mightier..., The" (episode # 3.10) "Bitter Suite, The" (episode # 3.12) "Forget Me Not" (episode # 3.17) "Sacrifice: Part 1" (episode # 3.21) "Sacrifice: Part 2" (episode # 3.22) "Deja Vu All Over Again" (episode # 4.22) "Chakram" (episode # 5.2) "Succession" (episode # 5.3) "Seeds of Faith" (episode # 5.9) "God Fearing Child" (episode # 5.12) "Eternal Bonds" (episode # 5.13) "Amphipolis Under Siege" (episode # 5.14) "Looking Death in the Eye" (episode # 5.19) "Livia" (episode # 5.20) "Eve" (episode # 5.21) "Motherhood" (episode # 5.22) "Coming Home" (episode # 6.1) "Old Ares Had a Farm" (episode # 6.10) "God You Know, The" (episode # 6.12) "You Are There" (episode # 6.13) "Path of Venegeance" (episode # 6.14) |