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Randall Keats

The Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff – it’s one of the hardest gigs in the house. Hardened by fifteen years of cut-throat politics, Randall knows the location of enough skeletons to keep him safe for the rest of his career. He's just not sure he can stomach it for that long.

About Aden Young

Aden Young has acquired an impressive list of film, theatre and television credits since his screen debut as a 17th Century French missionary in Bruce Beresford's Black Robe. He followed up this performance with the action thriller Sniper. His early credits also include Love In Limbo, Shotgun Wedding and Broken Highway, which screened in official competition at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.

Other notable performances include River Street, the acclaimed Cosi, in which he played an impish and egotistical theatre director, Hotel De Love, Lucky Country, Bruce Beresford’s Mao’s Last Dancer Cousin Bette, starring opposite Jessica Lange and Elizabeth Shue, Collision Course, The War Bride with Anna Friel and Brenda Fricker, and Mark Lee’s directorial feature debut The Bet.

In 2009 Aden appeared in the acclaimed First World War drama Beneath Hill 60 and Julie Bertucelli's The Tree opposite Charlotte Gainsbourg, which was honoured as the closing night film of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival. His more recent film appearances were Cooktales, The Killer Elite alongside Robert De Niro, I, Frankenstein playing the title character and Frontera. Recently Aden played the lead in Academy Award winner Ray McKinnon's US series Rectify which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival to favourable reviews. Aden recently completed filming of the third season of ABC’s Rake.

Behind the camera, Aden has written and directed the award winning shorts The Order and The Rose Of Ba Ziz starring Hugo Weaving.