Frederick Du Rietz

Frederick Banks Du Rietz started his career having won the Hugo Weaving award for his stage performance of The Tribulations of Abacus Christy. While studying at the Academy of Film, Theatre, and Television in Sydney, Frederick appeared on ABC's Friday on My Mind. Shortly after, Frederick starred alongside Anna Torv, Danielle Cormack, and Jackie Weaver in the Netflix thriller Secret City, for which he was nominated for Best New Talent by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA). Later in the year, Du Rietz starred in the coming-of-age film Bilched, alongside Hal Cumpston, Jeremy Simms, and Rhys Muldoon, which won three awards at the Chelsea Film Festival in NYC. One of which went to Frederick for Best Supporting Actor. Fred later appeared on television sets across Australia when he was introduced as Jeremy in the Channel 9 hospital drama Amazing Grace, starring Kate Jenkinson, Sigrid Thornton, and Alex Dimitriades.