Biografia

25 febbraio 1979 · Stoccolma, Svezia

1,83 m

David announced his engagement to his former 'Neighbours' co-star, Natalie Hoflin. They started dating while working on the soap, before moving to Los Angeles in 2008. They married in Warburton on 4 January 2013.

Name is pronounced "Daarvid" not "Dayvid".

[on Z: L'Inizio di Tutto (2015)] If someone came up to me and said, "Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald?" I would say he was a famous American novelist who wrote The Great Gatsby. Beyond that thought, I wouldn't really know much about him. We studied him at school in Australia, but to be honest, when I was reading it at 15 or 16 years old, I wasn't really that interested in The Great Gatsby. It kind of went over my head, but funnily enough, I remember it, and I don't really remember a lot from that time period.

[on playing F. Scott Fitzgerald in Z: L'Inizio di Tutto (2015)] I read his book This Side of Paradise, which is what propelled him into fame. So I read that as quickly as I could, because the main character in This Side of Paradise was heavily based on what F. Scott thought of himself. Rather than read up on what other people described F. Scott as, I wanted to see if I could get an idea of who he thought he was. I read some short stories as well, but I haven't, on purpose, read anything further, because I didn't want to pre-empt anything that happened later on. This first season only deals with the first few years of their relationship, so I didn't want to get into his other novels. I certainly didn't want to read Gatsby. I didn't want to read his life moving forward, because I wanted to be in that moment in time.

[on Z: L'Inizio di Tutto (2015)] I don't think a lot of people would look at any performance of anyone playing F. Scott and say, "That's not him; those weren't his mannerisms." It was a time before there was a lot of video footage of him, so really, interpretation-wise, there wasn't a lot of responsibility to get the way he walked right. That's up to interpretation. But he is an iconic figure and, of course, you want to do the character justice, but it's more for me about trying to understand his inner psyche, and how he viewed himself, how he viewed life, and, more importantly, how he viewed Zelda, 'cause she was such an inspiration to him - she was the main catalyst of his success.