Luke Baines is an English-born, Australian actor, model and musician.

Biography

Early life
Born in Hyde, Greater Manchester, in the United Kingdom, Baines grew up in the beach-side suburb of Cronulla, Sydney in Australia. He began acting lessons when he was five years old.

Baines attended The McDonald College of Performing Arts in North Strathfield, New South Wales where he studied drama, music and dance.


Career
In 2004, Baines appeared in Home & Away, playing a transfer student from Yabbie Creek High. In the same year, he also appeared alongside his former classmate Bojana Novakovic in Channel 10’s The Cooks.

For six months in 2008, Baines auditioned for the West End production of Spring Awakening the musical. In November of that year, he performed in the workshop at the Lyric Hammersmith in the role of Hanschen.

Baines is currently living in Los Angeles working as an actor and model. In 2012 he appeared in editorial campaigns for American Eagle, American Rag, Roark Collective and Chambers.

He appeared in the features, Gold Circle Films' The Possession of Michael King, and Disney's Saving Mr. Banks.

In 2013, Baines starred in Richard Zelniker's As Night Comes (originally titled Mischief Night). The film follows troubled 17-year-old Sean Holloway (Myko Olivier) who falls in with a group of teenage outcasts called 'The Misfits,' whose charismatic and deeply dysfunctional leader, Ricky Gladstone (Baines), takes him under his wing.

Baines also appears in Mark Webber and Teresa Palmer's The Ever After. The independent feature stars Palmer, Weber, Melissa Leo, Phoebe Tonkin and Tahyna Tozzi. It was filmed in Los Angeles and New York between July and August 2013.

In 2015, Luke appeared in Wes Craven's The Girl In The Photographs, which premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival in the Midnight Madness category.