---
name: "Nick Blake"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/nick-blake"
fi1m_id: "nick-blake"
imdb_id: "nm1693223"
tmdb_id: 240024
wikidata_id: "Q23061652"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 January 2000"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 67
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-25T09:56:43.725336+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Nick Blake

## Identity

Nick Blake

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/nick-blake
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** nick-blake
- **IMDb ID:** nm1693223
- **TMDB ID:** 240024
- **Wikidata ID:** Q23061652
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23061652, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1693223/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/240024

Actor. Born 1 January 2000 in New Zealand.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 January 2000, New Zealand
- **Active:** 2009–present
- **Average Fi1m score:** 67, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 81 (1), 2010s 60 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 67 to 70 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Action 2, Adventure 2, Fantasy 2, Science Fiction 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $2,125m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23061652, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1693223/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/240024

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*District 9*](https://film.one/film/district-9.md) (81)

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## Biography

Nick Blake is a New Zealand actor. He is credited as Francois Moraneu in the CIV Engineer Team in *District 9* (2009).

He has appeared in several films directed or produced by Peter Jackson, including as Percy in *The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug* (2013) and *The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies* (2014). Other film roles include the Waving Aviator in *Mortal Engines* (2018), a taxi driver in *Black Sheep* (2006) and Tobias Popanovich in *The Rule of Jenny Pen* (2024). On television he has played Jakob in *The Brokenwood Mysteries* (2018) and appeared in *Shortland Street* (2024).

*Sources: imdb.com, co.nz.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies* (2014), Fi1m 54, as Percy — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies.md)
- *The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug* (2013), Fi1m 65, as Percy — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug.md)
- *District 9* (2009), Fi1m 81, as Francois Moraneu - CIV Engineer Team — [page](https://film.one/film/district-9.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Pike River* (2025), as Justice Pankhurst
- *The Rule of Jenny Pen* (2025), as Tobias Popanovich
- *The Viewing* (2024), Producer
- *Mortal Engines* (2018), as Waving Aviator
- *Kiwi* (2018), as Snowy Lupton
- *James Patterson's Murder is Forever* (2018), series, as Dr. Roger Brumback
- *Chronesthesia* (2016), as Richard
- *Belief: The Possession of Janet Moses* (2015), as Pakeha Dave
- *The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies* (2014), as Percy — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hobbit-the-battle-of-the-five-armies.md)
- *The Brokenwood Mysteries* (2014), series, as Jakob
- *The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug* (2013), as Percy — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hobbit-the-desolation-of-smaug.md)
- *Broken Glass* (2012), as The Glassmaker
- *Stolen* (2010), as Terence Traynor
- *Home by Christmas* (2010), as Les Harker
- *District 9* (2009), as Francois Moraneu - CIV Engineer Team — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/district-9.md)
- *The Six Dollar Fifty Man* (2009), as Mr. Hannah
- *Legend of the Seeker* (2008), series, as Speaker
- *Eel Girl* (2008), as Senior Scientist
- *The Hollow Men* (2008), as Narrator (voice)
- *Black Sheep* (2006), as Taxi Driver
- *Ike: Countdown to D-Day* (2004), as Air Chef Marshall Tedder
- *The Mouth and the Truth* (1991), as Masochist
- *Blue Cow*, as Ewan
- *The Hollow Men*, as Narrator

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