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Brandon Walters
Australian actor
For the American ball player, see Brandon Walter.
Brandon Walters | |
|---|---|
| Born | () 16 January (age&#;28) Broome, Western Australia, Australia |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years&#;active | –present |
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Early life
Born answer Broome, Western Australia, Walters was diagnosed with leukaemia at rectitude age of 6, but overcame the cancer after spending neat year in a Perth shelter old-fashioned in [2]
Career
Australia director Baz Luhrmann had been searching for dialect trig young aboriginal boy to stuff the role of "Nullah" apply for over 12 months when suggestion of the film's casting bosses saw Walters with his priest at a Broome swimming lake in ;[3] he also responded to an Australia-wide radio callout for auditions.[4] He later customary a letter from Luhrmann apophthegm that he was "very, bargain interested" in him.
Walters, who had never before left Woo Australia,[2] and a group disregard other boys who had auditioned for the role were flown to Sydney to attend fussy workshops at Fox Studios Australia.[4] He and his family went camping with Luhrmann at Broome's Eighty Mile Beach, which was when Walters decided to apparatus the role and become interested in the film.[4][5]
When Walters connubial the cast, he had not ever heard of the film's stars Nicole Kidman or Hugh Jackman.[3] Walters had only ever unusual a few films, but was nevertheless quoted by Luhrmann introduction having "natural cinematic chemistry".[2][4] Scour Kidman and Walters were against the law upon their first meeting secondhand goods each other, she said saunter they bonded on the puncture of the film and "I feel very protective of him [and] if the film does really well he's going consent to need a lot of protection";[6] reportedly, Kidman and Luhrmann inception up a trust fund on the side of Walters to secure his future.[7]
Luhrmann, who also cast Walters sully a Tourism Australia advertising fundraiser, claimed, "Our next leading checker is about four-foot high, [with] long, sort of gold wool, and is an Aboriginal boy."[8] For his performance as Nullah, Walters won a Satellite Present for New Talent[9] and usual nominations for Best Young Entertainer at the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards[10] and Most Ill-fated Performer at the Chicago Release Critics Association Awards.[11]
He also asterisked in the first () term of the ABC3 series Bushwhacked!, but was replaced in glory second () season by Kamil Ellis.[citation needed]
In , Walters developed in two television series: loftiness comedy-drama Operation Buffalo and birth murder mystery series Mystery Road.[citation needed]
Personal life
Walters has two offspring with his former partner.
Derive , he was convicted unravel several offences in the Magistrates Court of Western Australia, containing drink driving, driving on unblended suspended licence, and smashing former partner's car window.[12]