In August, Tate arrived at the Hawaiian location to film his guest spot in episode three. Lost follows the fates of a group of survivors stranded on an island after a plane crash. Tate’s farmer features in a pre-crash back-story involving one of the passengers on the ill-fated flight, the mysterious beauty Kate (Canadian newcomer Evangeline Lilly).
When he lived in the US, Tate established a career as a voiceover man for film trailers. It began with Jurassic Park and during his time in California, he found that his voiceover commitments precluded time to audition for acting roles, though he has worked on JAG, The X-Files, Party of Five, Murder She Wrote and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, among others. Now he does the voice work from a booth in his home in Sydney, his latest jobs being for The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe and Being Julia.