# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robbie-magasiva
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:48:37.695Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robbie-magasiva"
name: "Robbie Magasiva"
slug: "robbie-magasiva"
description: "Robbie Joseph Magasiva is a Samoan-New Zealand actor who has starred in several films and as a member of the Naked Samoans comedy troupe. He has also appeared on television and in theatre, and was the co-presenter of New Zealand's Tagata Pasifika with famed athlete, Beatrice Faumuina. Magasiva is also known for his role on Shortland Street as Dr. Maxwell Avia, which he played from June 2009 to July 2012, and for his role as Will Jackson on the prison drama series, Wentworth. Magasiva is the only male actor to appear in all eight seasons; he appeared in all 100 episodes of the show."
tagline: "New Zealand actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robbie_Magasiva.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "New Zealand"
  isoCode: "NZ"
category:
  name: "Comedians"
  slug: "comedians"
profileType:
  name: "Comedian"
  slug: "comedian"
birthDate: "1972-05-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.61
  momentum:             0.9921001629440681
  historical:           5.826506666666667
  currentAttention:     1.729559748427673
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0535741/"
    handle:    "nm0535741"
sources:
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Magasiva"
    title: "Robbie Magasiva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Magasiva"
    title: "Robbie Magasiva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Magasiva"
    title: "Robbie Magasiva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Magasiva"
    title: "Robbie Magasiva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbie_Magasiva"
    title: "Robbie Magasiva"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q635915"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/76834"
    title: "Robbie Magasiva"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump