Dustin Clare

Dustin Clare is an Australian actor. He is best known for his starring role as Gannicus in the Starz series Spartacus: Gods of the Arena, Spartacus: Vengeance and Spartacus: War of the Damned, and as Riley Ward on the series McLeod's Daughters.

Dustin Clare is from Australia. Born at Grafton, he grew up in both Ballina, NSW and Maclean, NSW. Dustin studied at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts in Perth, he graduated in 2004.

He served as a 2012 ambassador for the Warrambeen Film Festival.

He is an ambassador for the White Ribbon Foundation.

From 2006-2007 Dustin starred as Riley Ward in 48 episodes of the series McLeod's Daughters.

In 2009 he played Sydney hitman and gangland figure Christopher Dale Flannery in Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities and also as Sean in the Showtime Network (Australia) series Satisfaction.

Dustin's global fame occurred when he starred as Gannicus, the champion gladiator of the House of Batiatus, in Spartacus: Gods of the Arena. This is the prequel to the series Spartacus: Blood and Sand. He returned to his role as Gannicus in the two sequel seasons to Spartacus: Blood and Sand entitled Spartacus: Vengeance and Spartacus: War of the Damned.