Tom Hern


Thomas Hern is a New Zealand actor and award-winning independent film producer.
He is known for producing NZ feature films The Dark Horse, Everything We Loved, and Pork Pie. Hern also produced the action-comedy Guns Akimbo, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Samara Weaving, and is in post-production on Shadow in the Cloud.
As an actor Hern has played Ram, the young paraplegic, polygamist villain in cult sci-fi series The Tribe and the comic-relief character Devin Del Valle in the 2004 television show Power Rangers Dino Thunder. Between 2006 and 2007, Hern also appeared in South Pacific Pictures-produced New Zealand television series Shortland Street as Baxter Cormack. Hern also appeared in Revelations, Interrogation, Maddigan's Quest, as well as in many supporting and presenting roles. His filmography includes various TV and radio commercials and voiceovers.
Thomas Hern was born in Christchurch, New Zealand and has two older brothers and an older sister. He is also known by the nickname Herndog.
Hern continues to work on musical side-projects, Theodore High, with Latham Gaines and rock band The Drop D's.

Recent work

Hern is a co-founder and managing director of along with James Napier and Tim and Sasha Wood.
As lead Producer of The Dark Horse, Hern won the Moa-award for "Best Film" at the 2014 New Zealand Film Awards. In 2015, Hern was recognised as a Future Leader of the industry by Screen International and sat on the International Jury for the Berlin Film Festival. In 2016, Hern won the pitching prize at the MIFF 37 Degrees South market in Melbourne.
Hern produced Guns Akimbo, alongside Felipe Marino and Joe Neurauter. The film had its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival 2019.
Hern also produced the short film, Lambs. Lambs premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival and screened in competition at the Clermont Ferrand, Sydney, Melbourne and New Zealand International film festivals. Hern and Four Knights' released 2 feature films in 2014; The Dark Horse, starring Cliff Curtis and James Rolleston and directed by James Napier Robertson, and Everything We Loved, an arthouse drama by Max Currie.
In 2008/09, Hern produced his debut feature film, I'm Not Harry Jenson, with longtime friend James Napier who also starred in The Tribe and Power Rangers Dino Thunder. The film was released throughout New Zealand in 2010, by Rialto Entertainment, to strong reviews and was represented for international sales by Media Luna New Films in Germany I'm Not Harry Jenson also played at the Shanghai International Film Festival.
Hern is currently in post production on Shadow In the Cloud; a feature film starring Chloe Grace Moretz, and directed by fellow New Zealander, Roseanne Liang and is developing a drama series about the Polynesian Panthers, as well as a number of other film and television projects with long time collaborator, James Napier Robertson.

Filmography

As actor

As producer