Alex O Loughlin

In 1997, Alex O’Loughlin fathered a son, Saxon, with his girlfriend. Later on he broke up with her. His next relationship was with Holly Valance, an Australian singer and actress, however, the couple’s relationship did not progress despite many years together and they separated in February 2009.

Alex got romantically involved with Malia Jones, an American model and surfer, who gave birth to his son, Lion, in 2012. Malia and Alex got married in Hawaii on April 18, 2014.

In 2012, Alex missed several episodes of ‘Hawaii Five-0’ as he was in rehab for treatment for dependency on of pain medication that he had been prescribed earlier for a shoulder injury.

Alex O'Loughlin was born as Alexander O'Lachlan on August 24, 1976, in Canberra, Australia. Of Irish and Scottish descent, his father is a physics and astronomy teacher in Sydney and his mother a nurse. Alex has a younger sister, Jennifer.

Since his parents divorced when Alex was just two years old and lived in separate cities; his childhood was spent shuttling between Sydney, where his father worked and Canberra with his mother. As a small child, he suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder.

He was interested in acting from an early age. In 1999, he joined the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), Australia’s leading institute for education and training in the performing arts from where notables like Mel Gibson and Cate Blanchett have graduated.

He graduated from NIDA in 2002 with a Bachelor’s Degree in Dramatic Art

Even as a teenager, Alex O'Loughlin started working in numerous short films as well as in fringe theater. Among his very first acting roles as an extra was that of a Marine.

He commenced his acting career in real earnest after he graduated from NIDA. He acting in various Australian film and television productions. His television credits include ‘Sweet Science’, ‘BlackJack’, ‘White Collar Blue’, and ‘Love Bytes’.

Alex got his first break in films when he was given the lead role in the 2004 Australian romantic comedy film ‘Oyster Farmer’ opposite Diana Glenn, an established Australian television actor. Alex played the role of a criminal who steals money from a bank van to pay for the treatment of his ill sister and becomes an oyster farmer to avoid getting caught. The film, directed by Anna Reeves, was much talked about due to rumors that Alex was in the contention for being chosen as the next James Bond.

His next film, ‘Man-Thing’, an Australian-American horror film featuring the ‘Marvel Comics’ swamp creature of the same name was released in 2005. Even though the comic series was very successful, the film, released in a few international markets and shown on the ‘Sci-Fi’ channel, bombed. It made just $1 million and received bad reviews.

In 2005, he also acted in another film, ‘Feed’, an Australian crime-horror film that explored themes of submission, dominance, love, and power against a background of a police investigation of feederism, a sexual fetish. Alex also co-produced and wrote the script of the film.

‘Hawaii Five-0’, an action police drama film set in Hawaii. The immensely successful TV series premiered in 2010 and entered its 9th season in 2018.