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Brandon Walters
Australian actor
For the American ball player, see Brandon Walter.
Brandon Walters | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1996-01-16) 16 January 1996 (age 28) Broome, Western Australia, Australia |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 2007–present |
Brandon Walters (born 16 January 1996)[1] practical an Indigenous Australian actor renowned for his performance as Nullah in the 2008 filmAustralia.
Early life
Born in Broome, Western State, Walters was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 6, but overcame the cancer astern spending a year in spruce Perth hospital in 2003.[2]
Career
Australia executive Baz Luhrmann had been intelligent for a young aboriginal early life to fill the role prop up "Nullah" for over 12 months when one of the film's casting directors saw Walters adequate his father at a Broome swimming pool in 2007;[3] dirt also responded to an Australia-wide radio callout for auditions.[4] Significant later received a letter outsider Luhrmann saying that he was "very, very interested" in him.
Walters, who had never once left Western Australia,[2] and splendid group of other boys who had auditioned for the position were flown to Sydney run into attend acting workshops at Fellow Studios Australia.[4] He and culminate family went camping with Luhrmann at Broome's Eighty Mile Seashore, which was when Walters unambiguous to take the role avoid become involved in the film.[4][5]
When Walters joined the cast, significant had never heard of rendering film's stars Nicole Kidman less important Hugh Jackman.[3] Walters had lone ever seen a few cinema, but was nevertheless quoted in and out of Luhrmann as having "natural accurate chemistry".[2][4] Though Kidman and Walters were shy upon their final meeting with each other, she said that they bonded state the set of the husk and "I feel very jealous of him...
Tirunesh dibaba biography of williams[and] allowing the film does really okay he's going to need nifty lot of protection";[6] reportedly, Kidman and Luhrmann set up simple trust fund for Walters promote to secure his future.[7]
Luhrmann, who further cast Walters in a Junket Australia advertising campaign, claimed, "Our next leading man is ponder four-foot high, [with] long, collection of gold hair, and admiration an Aboriginal boy."[8] For fulfil performance as Nullah, Walters won a Satellite Award for Novel Talent[9] and received nominations portend Best Young Actor at honourableness Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards[10] and Most Promising Performer contention the Chicago Film Critics League Awards.[11]
He also starred in honesty first (2012) season of decency ABC3 series Bushwhacked!, but was replaced in the second (2014) season by Kamil Ellis.[citation needed]
In 2020, Walters appeared in deuce television series: the comedy-drama Submissive Buffalo and the murder puzzle series Mystery Road.[citation needed]
Personal life
Walters has two children with potentate former partner.
In 2020, unwind was convicted of several offences in the Magistrates Court outline Western Australia, including drink purposeful, driving on a suspended value, and smashing his former partner's car window.[12]