New Zealand-born Michael Dorman scored his first big break in 2002 when he was cast in the Australian series The Secret Life of Us. He would stick with the show until 2005 before going on to appear in a number of other Australian projects, like the 2008 horror film Acolytes and 2009's Prime Mover. In 2010, Dorman made the transition to American cinema, with a role in the vampire movie Daybreakers.