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List Of Indigenous Australian Performing Artists
This is a list of Indigenous Australian performing artists. Circus * Con Colleano – tightrope walker Comedy * Mark Bin Bakar – actor and comedian Dance * Stephen Page * Frances Rings Film, television and theatre * Kylie Belling – actor * Shareena Clanton – actor * Ernie Dingo – actor and television presenter * Steve Dodd – actor * Karla Grant – presenter * Stan Grant – television presenter * David Gulpilil – actor * Leila Gurruwiwi – television presenter, producer * Grant Hansen – television presenter * Tom E. Lewis – actor, musician * Rachael Maza – actor and director * Gilbert McAdam – television presenter * Deborah Mailman – actor * Madeleine Madden – actor * Aaron Pedersen – actor * Hunter Page-Lochard – actor, writer, director, television presenter, dancer * Leah Purcell – actor * Rhoda Roberts – actress, director and arts executive * Everlyn Sampi – actor * Justine Saunders – actor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Con Colleano
Con Colleano (born Cornelius Sullivan; 26 December 1899 – 13 November 1973) was an Australian tightrope walker. He was the first person to successfully attempt a forward somersault on a tightrope and became one of the most celebrated and highly paid circus performers of his time. He was known as "The Wizard of the Wire" or "The Toreador of the Wire". Early life He was born Cornelius Sullivan in Lismore, New South Wales on 26 December 1899, the son of Cornelius Sullivan (1874-1952), and Julia Vittorine Sullivan (1878-1953), née Robinson, a woman of partial Bundjalung descent, whose father was an Afro-Caribbean man from St Thomas in the Danish West Indies. Colleano was the third of 10 children. His father (reportedly a freed convict) made a precarious living from sideshow "take-on-all-comers" boxing and gambling. Around 1907, when Colleano was seven years old, the family settled in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales, then a newly established opal mining field and a fertile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madeleine Madden
Madeleine Madden (born 29 January 1997) is an Australian actress. She is best known for playing Egwene al'Vere in the Amazon Prime series ''The Wheel of Time''. Early life Madden grew up around Redfern, a Sydney inner city suburb, and attended Rose Bay Secondary College. The daughter of Lee Madden (Gadigal and Bundjalung) and art curator and writer Hetti Perkins, Madden grew up in a political family; she is the great-granddaughter of Arrernte elder Hetty Perkins and the granddaughter of activist and soccer player Charles Perkins. Her aunt is director Rachel Perkins. She has two older sisters and two younger half-sisters, including actor Miah Madden. Their father died in a car accident in 2003. Career In 2010, at age 13, Madden became the first teenager in Australia to deliver an address to the nation, when she delivered a two-minute speech on the future of Indigenous Australians. It was broadcast to 6 million viewers on every free-to-air television network in Australia. Tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon Walters
Brandon Walters (born January 1996) is an Indigenous Australian actor known for his performance as Nullah in the 2008 film ''Australia''. Early life Born in Broome, Western Australia, Walters was diagnosed with leukaemia at the age of 6, but overcame the cancer after spending a year in a Perth hospital in 2003. Career ''Australia'' director Baz Luhrmann had been searching for a young aboriginal boy to fill the role of "Nullah" for over 12 months when one of the film's casting directors saw Walters with his father at a Broome swimming pool in 2007; he also responded to an Australia-wide radio callout for auditions. He later received a letter from Luhrmann saying that he was "very, very interested" in him. Walters, who had never before left Western Australia, and a group of other boys who had auditioned for the role were flown to Sydney to attend acting workshops at Fox Studios Australia. He and his family went camping with Luhrmann at Broome's Eighty Mile Beach, which was whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Walley
Richard Barry Walley (born 1953) OAM is a Nyungar man, one of Australia's leading Aboriginal performers, musicians and writers, who has been a campaigner for the Indigenous cause. Walley is also a visual artist. Life and career Walley, born in 1953 in Meekatharra, north of Perth, Western Australia, spent much of his childhood at Pinjarra, south of Perth. He began his work in social justice for Indigenous Australians in the Perth region, Nyungar country, at a young age. By 23 he was chairing Western Australia's Aboriginal Advisory Board, while also involved in the formation or operation of the Aboriginal Housing Board, Aboriginal Medical Service, Aboriginal Legal Service, Aboriginal Alcoholism Committee, Aboriginal Sports Foundation and the New Era Aboriginal Fellowship. He is known for helping to develop the modern Australian welcome to country ritual, when in 1976 he and Ernie Dingo and created a ceremony to welcome a group of Māori people, Māori artists who were partic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Tudawali
Robert Tudawali (1929 – 26 July 1967), also known as Bobby Wilson and Bob Wilson, was an Australian actor and Indigenous activist. He is known for his leading role in the 1955 Australian film ''Jedda'', which made him the first Indigenous Australian film star, and also his position as Vice-President of the Northern Territory Council for Aboriginal Rights. The Tudawali Indigenous Film and Television Awards (Tudawali Awards) continue to recognise outstanding achievements of Indigenous people in the Australian film industry. Early life Tudawali was born and raised on Melville Island in the Northern Territory to Tiwi parents. Although he had only a basic education in Kahlin Compound and Half Caste Home in Darwin, Tudawali gained a rich English vocabulary. He was a leading Australian rules footballer as a youth, and he alternated several times between Aboriginal and white society. He used the name Bobby Wilson in Darwin when he travelled there by canoe in the late 1930s, us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Tovey
Noel Christian Tovey (born 25 December 1934) is an Australian dancer, actor, mentor, director and choreographer. He was the artistic director for the indigenous welcoming ceremony at the Sydney 2000 Olympics. Early life Born in Melbourne, the son of an Aboriginal/ New Zealand mother and father of Scottish-African descent, Tovey endured sexual abuse, neglect and poverty throughout his childhood and adolescence. Career Despite this hardship he went on to become successful in the theatre in both Australia and London, including appearing in the world premiere of ''Oh! Calcutta!''. He taught at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and co-founded the London Theatre for Children before returning to Australia in 1990. He played the lead role in ''Skipping on Stars'' based on the life of indigenous tightwire walker Con Colleano, performed to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Flying Fruit Fly Circus. In 2004, Hodder Headline Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miranda Tapsell
Miranda Tapsell (born 11 December 1987) is an Aboriginal Australian actress of both stage and screen, best known for her role as Cynthia in the Wayne Blair film '' The Sapphires'' and her 2015 performance as Martha Tennant in the Nine Network drama series '' Love Child''. In 2016, she portrayed Fatima in the Stan series '' Wolf Creek''. Early life Tapsell was born in Darwin, Northern Territory, on 11 December 1987 to Tony and Barbara Tapsell. When she was five the family moved to Jabiru in West Arnhem Land, where she grew up around Kakadu National Park. In 2004, when she was 16, Tapsell won the Bell Shakespeare Company regional performance scholarship. After finishing school she moved to Sydney to study at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) from where she graduated in 2008. Career Tapsell has been active both on stage and screen, starting with her 2008 performance in Dallas Winmar's play ''Yibiyung'' at the Belvoir Theatre, where she had the title role. In June 2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Coles Smith
Mark Coles Smith (born 1989) is an Indigenous Australian actor originally from Broome in Western Australia. He is known for his roles in '' Last Cab to Darwin'' (2015), '' Picnic at Hanging Rock'' (2018) and '' Occupation: Rainfall'' (2020), as well as the Canadian series ''Hard Rock Medical'' (2013-18). Early life Coles Smith was born in Broome around 1989, and made his debut in the Network Ten children's TV show '' Ocean Star'' at the age of 14 after being taken to an open audition by his aunt. In 2007, Coles Smith received the VCA Wilin Centre for Indigenous Arts' Yvonne Cohen Award, and graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) at Edith Cowan University (ECU) was established in 1980 to provide performing arts tuition. WAAPA (commonly pronounced "whopp-a") operates as a part of ECU, located at the ECU campus in ... in Aboriginal Theatre. Filmography Personal life Since 2015, Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Sen
Ivan Sen (born 1972) is an Indigenous Australian filmmaker. He is a director, screenwriter and cinematographer, as well as an editor, composer and sound designer. He is co-founder and director of Bunya Productions. Early life Ivan Sen was born in 1972 in Nambour, Queensland, the second child of Donella and Duro Sen. His mother Donella belongs to the Gamilaraay, Gamilaroi nation of Northern New South Wales, and Duro was born in Croatia to a German father and Hungarian mother. Before moving to Tamworth, New South Wales four years after Sen was born, in his mother's efforts to escape domestic violence, the family would regularly visit her birthplace, Toomelah. The Aboriginal Australian, Aboriginal community there was the last destination of three forced relocations of the Gamilaroi. Founded in 1937 by the New South Wales government, Toomelah turned from Aboriginal reserve , reserve into mission station, mission, but is also called a station, and has a history of precarious conditi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Justine Saunders
Justine Florence Saunders, (20 February 1953 – 15 April 2007) was an Australian stage, television and film actress. She was a member of the Woppaburra, an Australian Aboriginal people, from the Kanomie clan of Great Keppel Island in Queensland. On the small screen she appeared in numerous series, mini-series and telemovies. Screen roles Saunders having started her career in theatre, made her screen debut in the television serial ''Rush'' in 1974, but first came to prominence as a cast member of soap opera ''Number 96'' in 1976, as Rhonda Jackson. a character defending the rights of indigenous Australians. Subsequently, in 1986 she became best known for her role as social worker Pamela Madigan in the serial ''Prisoner'' Other television credits include: '' Skyways'', ''Women of the Sun'' (1981), '' Farscape'', ''Blue Heelers'', and ''MDA''. Her film work includes ''The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith'' and ''The Fringe Dwellers''. Order of Australia Medal In 1991, Saunders was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everlyn Sampi
Everlyn Lee Marie Sampi (born 6 October 1988) is an Australian actress. She is of Bardi Australian Aboriginal and Scottish descent. Sampi starred in the 2002 film ''Rabbit-Proof Fence'', as child of the stolen generation Molly Craig. The film itself is based on the true novel ''Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence'' written by Craig's daughter Doris Pilkington Garimara. Sampi won the 4th Annual Lexus Inside Film Awards for Best Actress on 6 November 2002 for her role in the film. Sampi appeared in the 2007 Australian drama '' The Circuit'' as the character Leonie. Sampi now lives in Broome, Western Australia Broome, also known as Rubibi by the Yawuru people, is a coastal pearling and tourist town in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, north of Perth. In the the population was recorded as 14,660. It is the largest town in the Kimberley reg .... External links Official Site* 1988 births Australian child actresses Australian people of Scottish descent Australi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhoda Roberts
Rhoda Ann Roberts (born 1959) is an Australian actress, director and arts executive. Born in Canterbury Hospital in Sydney in 1959, Bundjalung woman Roberts grew up and completed Year 10 in Lismore, then moved back to Sydney where she qualified as a nurse in 1979. Roberts co-starred with Rachael Maza and Lydia Miller in Belvoir Street Theatre's 1993 production of Louis Nowra's play ''Radiance''. She was employed as presenter of ''Vox Populi'', an SBS Television program, in 1990, becoming the first Indigenous Australian to present a prime time current affairs program. In 1995 she founded the Festival of Dreaming and was its director until 2009. Roberts has been Head of Indigenous Programming at the Sydney Opera House since 2012. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours The 2016 Queen's Birthday Honours are appointments by some of the 16 Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and hon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
