Native New Zealander Rene Naufahu began working steadily on the small screen in his home country on programs such as Tales of the South Seas, Street Legal, Water Rats, and many others. He reached the biggest audience of his career to that point after being cast as the Zion Gate Operator in the two sequels to The Matrix. Naufahu portrayed Erasmus, a man with a drinking problem, in the drama Naming Number Two.