Early Life and Career
Hood was born in Johannesburg. He was educated at St. Stithians College (where he was elected Head Prefect in 1980) and the University of the Witwatersrand, where he studied law, and at the film school of the University of California, Los Angeles, in the United States.
He first came to the South African public's attention when he starred in the SABC TV production The Game, a drama series focusing on the game of rugby union.
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