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Max Pirkis

Full / Real Name: Max William R. Pirkis
Born: 06 January 1989 (36 years old)
Gender: Male

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Max Pirkis is an English actor best known for his role as Gaius Octavian in the period drama television series Rome, from 2005-2007.

Born in 1989, Pirkis performed in several school plays before winning his first role in a motion picture, as the ultra kind and friendly Midshipman Lord Blakeney in the blockbuster Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) starring Russell Crowe.

Max currently lives in London with his mother (a publisher), father (a stockbroker) and little sister, enjoys cricket and football, plays violin and saxophone and has two dogs.


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Gaius Octavian

Gaius Octavian


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