Daniel Amalm
Amaln in 2011
Born16 February 1979
Brisbane, Australia
Occupation(s)Actor and musician

Daniel Amalm (born 16 February 1979) is an Australian actor and musician, best known for his role in serial Home and Away as foster kid Jack Wilson

Early life

Amalm was born in Brisbane, Queensland on 16 February 1979, his mother is Maltese and his father is Swedish. Amalm's father introduced him to guitar from an early age. Amalm's first performances were as a busker in Brisbane's Queen Street Mall with his brother where they were spotted by George Benson's tour manager and invited to Benson's sound check. The Amalm brothers jammed with George Benson and after the jam Benson donated his own money towards a new guitar that the brothers had been saving for. With that guitar Daniel Amalm won a scholarship to study guitar at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music.[1] and was trained in classical guitar under Julian Byzantine. Amalm performed as one of the guitarists in "An Angel Moves Too Fast To See" written by Rhys Chatham for 100 electric guitars for the Brisbane Biennial on 4–5 June 1993. Amalm was runner up in the 9th Australian Classical Spanish Guitar Competition.[2]

Career

Daniel's first television role of Jack Wilson in television soap opera Home and Away in 1994 and he was nominated for the Logie Award Most Popular New Talent in 1995.

In 1996, Amalm left Home and Away and recorded a single, 'Classical Gas', which was a top 21 hit on the ARIA Charts and No.5 on the Dance Charts; followed by 'Honey Dip Girl', which was voted No. 1 on Network Ten's Video Hits for 5 consecutive weeks. In 2000, he returned to Home and Away for a guest appearance and also appeared in TVserialk's All Saints and Tripping Over.

Daniel has worked as a music teacher in classical, flamenco and rock guitar. He has performed the live circuit with various Latin/Rock covers & originals bands and wrote with Alternative/Metal band OP25. Daniel's Brother Jacob plays drums in OP25. The band contributed to the original motion picture soundtrack of 'Two Fists One Heart' with a song called 'Like No Other'.[2]

Daniel appeared in the Nine Network drama series Underbelly in 2008 as Melbourne underworld figure, Dino Dibra. He also starred in the Australian film Two Fists, One Heart[3] which was released 19 March 2009 and Cedar Boys released July 2009.

In 2009, Amalm began a regular role in drama series Rescue: Special Ops as Jordan Zwitkowski on the Nine Network and co-hosted FOX8's adaptation of the boxing reality series The Contender.

Daniel released an ambient classical guitar album in 2019 titled Guitared and a flamenco album in 2020 titled Kaldera.

Filmography

Year Title Role Notes
2022 Pieces of Her (TV series) Lean Man 2 episodes
2019 Mr Inbetween Sam 1 episode
2018 Black Comedy (TV series) Guest Cast 1 episode
2017 Pulse Shawn 1 episode
2009-11 Rescue: Special Ops Jordan Zwitkowski 48 episodes
2009 Cedar Boys Cassar
2008 Two Fists, One Heart Anthony Argo
2008 Underbelly (TV series) Dino Dibra 3 episodes
2006 Tripping Over Brad 1 episode
2006 All Saints (TV series) Moe 1 episode
2006 Moyuru Toki: The Excellent Company Mexican
2001 Cybergirl Marco 1 episode
1994-1996, 2000 Home and Away Jack Wilson 328 episodes
1996 Whipping Boy Youth #1 TV Movie

Discography

Albums

List of albums, with selected details
Title Details
Daniel Amalm
  • Released: 1996
  • Format: CD
  • Label: AMC, EMI Music Australia (4771102)

Singles

List of singles, with selected chart positions
Title Year Peak chart positions Album
AUS
[4]
"Classical Gas" 1996 31 Daniel Amalm
"Any Way You Want It!" —
"Honey Dip" 1997 81

References

  1. ↑ "Famous Queensland Conservatorium of Music Alumni". ranker.com. 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
  2. 1 2 http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=117827259 Archived 21 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine My Space
  3. ↑ "Home". 2fists1heartmovie.com.
  4. ↑ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 13.
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