List of Indigenous Australian performing artists
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Circus

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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 hi ...
– tightrope walker


Comedy

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Mark Bin Bakar Mark Bin Bakar is an Indigenous Australian musician, comedian and radio announcer, writer, director/producer as well as an indigenous rights campaigner based in Broome, in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. He is best known for his r ...
– actor and comedian


Dance

* Stephen Page *
Frances Rings Frances Rings is an Aboriginal Australian dancer, choreographer and former television presenter. She was born in Adelaide, South Australia, and is a Kokatha woman. She is the associate artistic director for the Bangarra Dance Theatre and will ta ...


Film, television and theatre

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Kylie Belling Kylie Belling is an Australian stage, film and television actress and voice artist, who has also worked in other occupations. she works as Senior Manager, First Peoples, for ''Creative Victoria''. Biography Belling was born in Melbourne and ...
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Shareena Clanton Shareena Clanton (born 1990) is an Australian film, television and theatre actress. She is known for her role as Doreen Anderson on the television drama series ''Wentworth'' (2013–2017). Personal life Clanton was born in Perth, Western Austr ...
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Ernie Dingo Ernie is a masculine given name, frequently a short form (hypocorism) of Ernest, Ernald, Ernesto, or Verner. It may refer to: People * Ernie Accorsi (born 1941), American football executive * Ernie Adams (disambiguation) * Ernie Afaganis (born ...
– actor and television presenter * Steve Dodd – actor *
Karla Grant Karla Grant is an Australian presenter, producer and journalist for the Special Broadcasting Service, SBS's national Indigenous current affairs program ''Living Black'', focusing on issues concerning Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal and Torres ...
– presenter * Stan Grant – television presenter * David Gulpilil – actor *
Leila Gurruwiwi Leila Gurruwiwi (born 1988) is an Australian media commentator and television show producer. She is a panel member on ''The Marngrook Footy Show'' and co-producer of an up-coming reality TV show with the working title ''Dance Off'', currently bein ...
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Grant Hansen Grant Hansen is an Australian Indigenous musician and broadcaster who has worked as a host of the Marngrook footy show, broadcast on National Indigenous TV network as well as Channel 31, Foxtel, ABC and SBS . He has worked as a radio announcer / ...
– television presenter * Tom E. Lewis – actor, musician *
Rachael Maza Rachael Zoa Maza is an Indigenous Australian television and film actress and stage director. Early life and education Maza is of Dutch, Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal Australian heritage, the daughter of Bob Maza, also an actor. She is ...
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Gilbert McAdam Gilbert McAdam (born 30 March 1967 in Alice Springs) is an Indigenous Australian former Australian rules football player and one of three McAdam brothers to play in the Australian Football League (AFL). Playing career Early career McAdam grew ...
– television presenter * Deborah Mailman – actor * Madeleine Madden – actor * Aaron Pedersen – actor *
Hunter Page-Lochard Hunter Djali Yumunu Page-Lochard is an Australian stage and screen actor of both Aboriginal Australian and African-American descent. He is known for his roles in the films '' The Sapphires'' (2012), '' Around the Block'' (2013) and ''The Djarn D ...
– actor, writer, director, television presenter, dancer * Leah Purcell – actor *
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 qua ...
– actress, director and arts executive *
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 fi ...
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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 Queensl ...
– actor * Ivan Sen – filmmaker *
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), a ...
– actor, musician * Miranda Tapsell – actor, television presenter *
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 ...
– actor * Robert Tudawali – actor * Richard Walley – actor, musician * Brandon Walters – actor * Sam Watson – novelist and filmmaker * Burnum Burnum – actor


Indigenous performing arts training institutes

* Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts *
Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre (AIDT) was the first dance company used to train Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students on their dancing career, and grew into a performance group. Originating in the National Aboriginal and Islander Ski ...
* NAISDA (National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Development Association) Dance College


Indigenous performing arts companies

* Bangarra Dance Theatre


See also

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List of Indigenous Australian musicians This is a list of Indigenous Australian musicians. Solo artists * Trevor Adamson – country/gospel singer * Danzal Baker (Baker Boy) – rapper, singer *Auriel Andrew – country musician *Christine Anu (Torres Strait Islander) – singer-s ...
* List of Indigenous Australian writers * List of Indigenous Australian visual artists


References

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