List of Indigenous Australian performing artists
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Film, television and theatre
- Kylie BellingKylie BellingKylie Belling is an Australian actress.She is best known for her television work. She played Sarah West in Prisoner and was also an original cast member of The Flying Doctors as Sharon Herbert.-External links:*...
-- actor - Bonar ColleanoBonar ColleanoBonar Colleano was an American-born British stage and motion-picture performer.-Early life:Colleano was born Bonar Sullivan in New York City. Following childhood experiences with the Ringling Brothers Circus and in his family's famous circus, he entered films in 1944...
-- US actor nephew of Con Colleano - Ernie DingoErnie DingoErnie Dingo AM is an Indigenous Australian actor and television presenter originating from the Yamatji people of the Murchison region of Western Australia.-Background:...
-- actor and television presenter - Steve DoddSteve DoddSteve Dodd , is an Indigenous Australian actor, notable for playing indigenous characters across seven decades of Australian film. After beginning his working life as a stockman and rodeo rider, Dodd was given his first film roles by prominent Australian actor Chips Rafferty...
- actor - Stan Grant (journalist) television presenter
- David GulpililDavid GulpililDavid Gulpilil Ridjimiraril Dalaithngu , is an Indigenous Australian traditional dancer and actor. His first starring role was Walkabout....
-- actor - Sonny Dallas Law-- actor
- Tom E. LewisTom E. LewisTom E. Lewis is a Murrungun man , who is an actor and musician. His first major role was the title role in the 1978 Fred Schepisi film The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith.-Early life:He was born and grew up at Ngukurr in South Eastern Arnhem Land...
-- actor, musician - Deborah MailmanDeborah MailmanDeborah Mailman , is an Australian television and film actress. She was the first Aboriginal actress to win the Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role...
-- actor - Leah PurcellLeah PurcellLeah Purcell is an Australian actor, director and writer.-Biography:She is a film, television and theatre actor, singer, director and playwright. She is the youngest of seven children of Aboriginal and white Australian descent. Her father was a butcher and a boxing trainer...
-- actor - Everlyn SampiEverlyn SampiEverlyn Leemarie Sampi is an Australian Aboriginal actress who was featured in the movie Rabbit-Proof Fence...
-- actor - Justine SaundersJustine SaundersJustine Florence Saunders, OAM was an Australian stage, film and television actress. She was a member of the Woppaburra indigenous people, from the Kanomie clan of Keppel Island in Queensland. She was born next to a railway track. At the age of 11, she was removed from her mother Heather, and...
-- actor - Caitlin StaseyCaitlin StaseyCaitlin Jean Stasey is an Australian actress from Melbourne, who is best known for her previous role as Rachel Kinski in Neighbours. Previously she played Francesca Thomas in The Sleepover Club...
-- actor - Ivan SenIvan SenIvan Sen is an Australian filmmaker. Throughout the late 1990s Sen worked on numerous short films, before making his feature film debut with Beneath Clouds in 2002. He studied filmmaking at the Australian Film Television and Radio School, where he produced his first short films, working with the...
-- filmmaker - Noel ToveyNoel ToveyNoel Tovey is an Australian dancer, actor, mentor, director and choreographer. he was the artistic director for the indigenous welcoming ceremony of the Sydney 2000 Olympics....
-- actor - Robert Tudawali -- actor
- Richard WalleyRichard WalleyDr Richard Walley OAM is a Nyoongar man, one of Australia's leading Aboriginal performers, musicians and writers, who has been a campaigner for the Indigenous cause.-Biography:...
-- actor, musician - Brandon WaltersBrandon WaltersBrandon Walters is an Indigenous Australian child actor known for his performance as Nullah in the 2008 film Australia.-Life and career:...
-- actor - Sam Watson -- novelist and filmmaker