A prolific Australian performer, Shane's career spans almost 20 years in film, theatre and television. A graduate of the Victorian College of the Arts, Shane has received several industry awards, including: a Penguin Award for Best Actor in 1984, a Green Room Award for Outstanding Performance on the Fringe in 1995 and a 1998 AFI Showtime Award nomination for Best Actor in a Television Drama. Shane's previous theatre work includes: The Doll Trilogy, Backbeat, Harp in the South, And the Big Men Fly, Fool for Love, Byzantine Flowers, The Keepers, The Old Man Comes, Rolling Home, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, The Metis Shore, Zero, The Cat and the Buried, The Snake Pit, Gary's House, Shifting Heart and Wonder Ward.

Also a regular guest on the small screen, Shane has appeared in countless Australian television series, including: Prisoner, Carson's Law, Cop Shop, The Keepers, A Country Practice, Emerging, Prime Time, Matthew's Passion, Harp in the South, Army Wives, Sons and Daughters, Poor Man's Orange, The Flying Doctors, Life by Law, No Hard Feelings, General Practice, Phoenix, Police Rescue, Heart of the Country, Fire, The Federals, The Man from Snowy River, Good Guys, Bad Guys, Raw FM, Moby Dick, Halifax f.p., Blue Heelers, Wildside and most recently Stingers.