Do we like Lani Tupu?
Our score: 6 out of 10. Nothing harmful or dodgy turned up, but the record is thin, so we can't say much more than that.
Lani Tupu is the actor many sci-fi fans know from Farscape, where he played two roles at once. On screen he was Peacekeeper Captain Bialar Crais, a first-season villain who later turns into an ally. Off screen he voiced Pilot, one of the show's two puppets, who flew the ship Moya and spoke for it to the crew.
After Farscape he mostly stuck to Australian TV and film. Digital Spy's catch-up piece lists The Code, The Cut and The King is Dead!, plus what it calls the obligatory brief role in Home and Away. It's a working actor's career, not a tabloid one.
The harm check came up clean, but quiet. Searches on what he's said or done about LGBTQ+ people, women, migrants, vaccines and the climate turned up nothing either way, and no campaigning or culture-war posting. His recent stage work is a Shakespeare comedy and an SBS drama, not a run of films with anyone pushing harm.
On the good-person side, we found no court cases, lawsuits, accusations or complaints against him in the reporting we could read. That's an absence of bad news rather than proof of good, and we found no coverage of him doing charity work or mentoring either.
His latest listed work was The Comedy of Errors, an open-air production at the University of Wollongong's Kooloobong Oval, running 11 to 22 February. BroadwayWorld's announcement named him in the cast and noted his role in SBS's The Jury: Death on the Staircase. Nothing new has turned up on him since.
So where does that leave us? A long, steady career, no red flags, and not a lot of detail. We'd happily watch him, and we'd back him, but we can't call him a hero on this evidence.