Nic Westaway

Nicholas "Nic" Westaway (born 20 January 1989) is an Australian actor and singer.

Westaway was born in 1989 and grew up in Margaret River, a town in the South West of Western Australia and Townsville with two brothers. He was creative from a young age and spent most of his childhood involved in such activities as playing music including the guitar and the piano. Westaway also took an interest in sport, participating in various games such as basketball, volleyball and surfing. Although, it was acting in which he chose as a suitable career.

Westaway made the choice to become an actor during his high school years when he got involved in drama classes and joined the social theatre group. One of his notable performances on stage was in high school, in which he received a part in Cloudstreet, a play based on the novel by Tim Winton. His older brother also performed in Cloudstreet.

At the age of 19, Westaway moved to Perth, having deferred a sports science degree at the University of Western Australia, he decided to choose acting as a career when he auditioned for the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. The following year, he was accepted by the academy, in which he spent three years before graduating.

In late 2011, he moved to Sydney and successfully auditioned for the role of character Kyle Braxton on the Seven Network soap opera Home and Away. Westaway first appeared on 8 August 2012 during the show's 25th season, as Kyle. At the time it was unknown who Kyle was but was later revealed that he was the brother of Darryl "Brax" (Steve Peacocke), Heath (Dan Ewing) and Casey Braxton (Lincoln Younes), when Casey kills their father and Kyle takes revenge by kidnapping and torturing Casey. He is later forgiven and welcomed into the Braxton family. On 21 April 2016 Westaway quit Home and Away after almost four years.

In addition to his role on Home and Away, Westaway has appeared in three short films prior to this. Running: A Western Australia Short, Happy Haven and Bonsai. He starred in the "Always" music video of his Home and Away co-star Samantha Jade as her love interest. In 2017, Westaway will be starring in science fiction film, Neurogenesis with two of his Home and Away co-stars, Marlo Kelly and Darcey Wilson, respectively.