His family moved to South Africa when Kirkwood was young. The son of a poet and an art teacher, he was exposed to literature and the arts from an early age and fell in love with acting in his school years. He studied drama at high school and at Johannesburg's Wits University, and started working in theatre immediately thereafter. He made an award-winning debut at Johannesburg's Market Theatre as Billy the Kid and followed that up by award-nominated performances in other theatre productions in both Johannesburg and Cape Town, and winning another award as Biff Loman in Miller's Death of a Salesman. He had two children, Willow and Phoenix with former Calvin Klein model Josie Borain. He lives in Cape Town and works primarily in film and television, but still finds time for theatre and also works as a voice-artist. He is a fitness fanatic and spends much of his free time trail running, cycling and competing in ultra distance races.
Dracula 3000
(Orlock)
The Three Investigators and The Secret Of Skeleton Island
(Tom Farraday)
Invictus
(Presidential Guard)
Dredd
(Judge Lex)
Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend
(Rusa)
Death Race: Inferno
(Dr. Klein)
Felix
(Jeff Junior)
Collision
(Johan Greser)
Dead Easy
(Lloyd)
The Bone Snatcher
(Paul)
The Challenger Disaster
(Avionics Engineer)
Seal Team Eight: Behind Enemy Lines
(Lt.Parker)
Elesin Oba: The King's Horseman
(Resident)
The Salvation
(Man With Beard)
Natale in Sudafrica
(Direttore hotel)
In My Country
(Boetie)
Tiger House
(Sveta)
Endgame
(Anthony Sampson)
Son of God
(King David)
Mercenary for Justice
(Kruger)
Mia and the White Lion
(John Owen)
Coronation Street: Out of Africa
(Ed Teal)
Red Water
(Brett van Ryan)
The Mauritanian
(Sergeant Sands)
Berserker: Hell's Warrior
(Norseman)
Mein Soldat
(Duncan)
House Party: Tonight's the Night
(Keniston Scott)
The Triangle
Outcasts
(Rudi)
Black Sails
(Captain Bryson)
Inconceivable
(James Bishop)
Banshee
(Colonel Douglas Stowe)
ONE PIECE
(Axe-Hand Morgan)
The Catch
(Theo Tasker)
The Triangle
(Bill Granger)
King Solomon's Mines
(Sergei)
White Lies
(Andrew McKenzie)
Baby Farm
Warrior
(Walter Buckley)
Charlie Jade
(Ren Porter)
Churchill at War
(Franklin Delano Roosevelt)