Chris Bloomfield, former Gold Coast bikie swaps life of crime for Hollywood
Aussie Chris Bloomfield was a Hells Angels bikie jailed over violent crimes, now he’s landing roles in Hollywood alongside Chris Hemsworth.
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An infamous former Gold Coast bikie has told how he reinvented himself to become a rising film star working alongside Chris Hemsworth in the latest Mad Max blockbuster.
Chris Bloomfield was a Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle gang enforcer who was sentenced to four years’ jail over a violent extortion and threats to shoot a family, as well as being at the centre of a Snapchat video scandal involving former NRL star Jarryd Hayne.
But after taking acting classes and practising in his jail cell, the man now known as CJ Bloomfield is landing roles in Hollywood productions including Mad Max film Furiosa – the most expensive movie ever made in Australia – and Mortal Kombat 2.
The former Gold Coast Titans U20s player has revealed in podcasts and social media posts how he dramatically turned his life around after becoming a bikie criminal following a violent upbringing.
Bloomfield, now 33, was facing a potential life sentence under tough gang laws after being arrested in 2014 by officers from the bikie-busting Taskforce Maxima over a violent standover racket.
A sentencing hearing in Brisbane Supreme Court in 2018 heard how he and fellow Hells Angels bikie Rhys Mirkin had waged war on two men over a $16,000 drug debt.
During the bikies’ reign of terror, one man received a knife wound while the other victim’s BMW was taken for four weeks. Bloomfield sent one of them a chilling text threatening to kill his family, which resulted in a charge of threatening to murder.
“U wanna go to the cops I know where your f– ken family lives and ill shoot every single one of those mother f– kers till I find you!!!” it said.
Crown prosecutor David Meredith said there was “no question” the pair were Hells Angels at the time, but more serious charges under anti-bikie legislation were dropped because it could not be proven they were acting for the club.
Bloomfield and Mirkin both pleaded guilty to assault and extortion, with Bloomfield sentenced to four years and three months behind bars.
The former bikie also made headlines in 2016 when he appeared alongside Hayne in an infamous Snapchat video in which Hayne appeared to give him a wad of cash and said: “Cash, money, fam”.
Then-Titans star Hayne was cleared by the NRL integrity unit but warned not to associate with criminals. Hayne denied any wrong doing.
Bloomfield, who was released from jail on parole in 2019, has told how he practised acting in his cell after he resolved to change his life.
“Sitting in a maximum-security prison in solitary confinement, after beating a life sentence … I painted a picture so vividly in my mind of what the healed version of myself looked and felt like, and what it looked and felt like to be a Hollywood actor,” he wrote on social media. “Some things needed to change and I changed them. I stopped playing victim and making excuses forwhy I was such a f– ken physically, mentally and emotionally abusive idiot.”
He said he faced the choice of being a drug dealer, making $500,000 a week but running the risk of having to “remove” a debtor’s ear, getting caught and being jailed for life or “getting your ass shot and killed”.
“Or, I can play a drug kingpin in a Hollywood movie, get flown first-class/private to locations worldwide and I’ll make 10s of millions in residuals at the box office and my mother will actually be proud of me,” he wrote. “Yeah, f– k all that gangsters– t!”
The now-lean and ripped bikie plays the character Big Jilly in Furiosa, which stars Hemsworth and Anya Taylor-Joy and also featured another former convicted criminal-turned-actor in Nathan Jones, once dubbed The Colossus of Boggo Road.
Bloomfield signed to LA-based talent agency Industry Entertainment last year and has his own growing listing on industry bible IMDb. He will also feature in Warner Bros’ Queensland-made Mortal Kombat 2, out next year.
He is now preparing for his “biggest role” as he prepares to become a first-time father, to a daughter due next month. Bloomfield said he hoped his transformation would be an inspiration to other young Polynesian “kings”.
“You reach that point in your life where the only thing left for you to do is look in the mirror and say “hey d– khead, it’s not everybody else, you clown, it’s you mfka!” he wrote in one social media post.
“I had to do that. And f– k it hurt. But through the pressure of all that s– t I had to endure, the diamond you see today was formed.”
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