Diarmid Heidenreich (born 1975) is an Australian film and television actor. Heidenreich graduated from
Waverley College
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, location = 131 Birrell Street
, city = Waverley, New South Wales
, country = Australia
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in Sydney's east, in 1993 before going on to become a well-known actor.
Television career
Heidenreich began his television career in 1993, appearing in ''
G. P.
''G.P.'' is an Australian television series produced by Roadshow, Coote & Carroll for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the series was broadcast for 8 seasons between 1989 and 1996.
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'' as a guest role. Over the next few years, he had guest roles in several drama series, including ''
Echo Point
''Echo Point'' is an Australian television soap opera produced by Endemol Australia, Southern Star Group for Network Ten on 1 June 1995 until 1 December 1995.
The series was devised as an attempt by the Ten Network to rival the opposition soap ...
'' (1995) and ''
Big Sky'' (1997). Heidenreich was also the host of the children's game show ''
Challenger'' until he left the show and Adrian de Vito & Zoe Sheridan co-hosted the show together.
From 1993 to 1996 and again since 2019, Heidenreich starred in a series of television commercials for
Pizza Hut
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, as 'Dougie the Pizza Delivery Guy', which he still is commonly known as. Heidenreich had a leading role in ''
Water Rats'' in 2000 and 2001 as Senior Constable Matthew Quinn. In 2003, he had a 4 episode guest role in ''
McLeod's Daughters
''McLeod's Daughters'' is an Australian drama television series created by Posie Graeme-Evans and Caroline Stanton for the Nine Network, which aired from 8 August 2001, to 31 January 2009, lasting eight seasons. It stars Lisa Chappell and Bri ...
''. His most recent appearance has been in the Carlton Draught 'Slo Motion' ads.
In 2009, Heidenreich starred in ''
The Cut'', and had a guest role in ''
Packed to the Rafters
''Packed to the Rafters'' was an Australian family-oriented comedy drama television program which premiered on the Seven Network on Tuesday 26 August 2008 at 8:30 pm. The show continued on Tuesdays in this timeslot for its entire run. The d ...
''. In 2010 he starred in the TV crime drama ''
Underbelly: The Golden Mile''.
In 2015, he guest-starred in ''
Home and Away'', as inmate
Trevor Gunson
'' Home and Away'' is an Australian television soap opera. It was first broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. The following is a list of characters that appeared in 2015, by order of first appearance. All characters were introduced ...
, nemesis of fellow prisoner
Darryl Braxton.
Personal life
Heidenreich was arrested and served
periodic detention
Periodic detention or weekend detention is a type of custodial sentence under which the offender is held in prison between Friday and Sunday evenings each week, but is at liberty at other times. Promoted by prison reformers as an alternative to i ...
for an incident involving a car crash and drug use, leaving his girlfriend in hospital in 1996.
He married journalist Genevieve Quigley in 2003. The couple has two children: daughter Ivory born in 2005, and son Jasper born in 2007.
References
External links
Australian Television*
Australian male actors
Australian people of German descent
Living people
1975 births
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