Biography
Elz Carrad is a New Zealand actor. He played Tom in the 2023 series After the Party, for which he won Best Supporting Actor at the 2024 New Zealand Television Awards.
Carrad's other screen work includes the lead role of Caz Davis in the 2020 film and web series Rūrangi, for which he received a 2021 New Zealand Television Awards nomination for Best Actor; appearances in Creamerie (2021–2023); and the role of Curtis Cooper in The Brokenwood Mysteries (2014–). He has also appeared as a guest judge on Drag Race Down Under (2021).
Based in Auckland, Carrad is of Te Whakatōhea and Te Aitanga-A-Mahaki descent and is a trained vocalist who has worked as a backup singer.
