An accomplished actor, Graeme Blundell's credits include Medivac, Love Of Lionel's Life, Joh's Jury and Vietnam on television, Looking Alibrandi, The Year My Voice Broke, and Don's Party on film, and Navigating, Away and The Real Thing with the Sydney Theatre Company. Blundell is also an experienced director, founder of theatre companies and contributing writer for periodicals and newspapers.

When Casting Director Robin Gurland told the first assistant director of Blundell's casting, she said "He broke into this huge grin of excitement. Graeme was an icon of 70's Australian TV and he'd grown up watching Graeme."