Niall Matter (born October 20th, 1980) is a Canadian actor. He portrays Evan Cross in Primeval: New World. Before he began his acting career, he worked on the oil rigs in Northern Alberta for eight years. At the age of 25, he was involved in an rigging accident which almost resulted in an amputation of his right leg. After six months of rehabilitation and learning how to walk, he was about to go back to his home in Vancouver. He is probably best known to TV viewers as Zane Donovan, the rebel genius on Eureka.