Baz Black

Baz Black is an Award Winning Actor/Writer/Director from Ireland. He trained at Bow Street Acting Academy. His early acting carer started in theatre at a young age, Baz played Danny Zuko in Grease, then during his teenage years his unique heavily tattooed look saw him appearing in many music videos and promotional campaigns. Baz had a very successful modelling career and was signed to Frasers (Dublin) and Asha Tank (London) During this time he was on numerous front cover magazines, billboards, TV commercials and the face of full clothing ranges. This led to once again pursue his love for acting and he appeared in numerous Short Films and TV shows as he built his career up. Baz's look does get him cast as the 'bad guy' which he says he relishes but he also wanted to show another side to his acting abilities so he founded his production company 'Sure Look Productions' and wrote, directed and starred in his Short Film 'Reflection' which won many awards including 'Best European Short' and The Albert Pyun Award for 'Best Director' His second Short Film 'Merrow' based on Irish Mythology once again received many awards including 'The Overall Spirit of the Festival Award' He is now in pre-production for his debut feature film called 'Dublin Crust' which has been described as 'Trainspotting meets 'The Commitments' and has an illegitimate love child with 'The Full Monty' Baz is an advocate for mental health and body positivity and has appeared on numerous TV talk shows, Radio and Podcasts to speak on this topic, a short film he wrote and directed called 'Office Workers Shocking Transformation' went viral with over 100 million views. In this video Baz can be seen with his tattoos completely covered up with make up. He then removes the make up to reveal his tattoos in the shock ending with the message of the video being 'Be whoever makes you happy' As well as acting Baz is an accomplished drummer and plays in three bands. He wrote best selling book 'Ink Princess' which is soon to be made into a movie. He is a professional Body Piercer for over 18 years and has owned numerous tattoo and piercing studios. He has toured doing stand up comedy. Practices the martial arts Jiu Jitsu since the age of 15 and was on the European Team.