Born Sydney, Australia, to an Iraqi Muslim father from Babylon, who was a violinist turned restaurateur and his Danish mother, a doctor of economics. Don attended high school in the Netherlands and later completed a degree in Dramatic Arts, at the University of Western Sydney Nepean.
He is best known for his role as Detective Theo Rahme on the critically acclaimed police drama ''White Collar Blue''. He later moved to Los Angeles to complete shooting for the film ''Winning the Peace'', in which he won Best Actor at Method Fest Independent Film Festival in 2005.
In 2006 he returned to Australia to work on the film ''Lucky Miles'' which went on to win the audience award for Best Film at the Sydney Film Festival and complete the mini-series of ''East West 101'' for SBS television, in which he played the lead role of Zane Malik.
Miss Iraq 2009, Aure Arnulf with Lebanese singer Elissa Here's one of Aure enjoying some Arabian hookah The gorgoues Aure Arnulf, native of Baghdad will be representing her home country Iraq in the Miss Earth 2009 beauty pageant.