1. Aaron Pedersen is known for many film and television roles, in particular as Detective Jay Swan in the film Mystery Road, its sequel Goldstone, and spin-off television series.
20 Facts About Aaron Pedersen
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Aaron Pedersen has been nominated for many and won several acting awards, including the 2021 AACTA Award for International Award for Best Actor in a Series.
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Aaron Pedersen was a host for the TV series Blackout.
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Aaron Pedersen's acting career began in 1994, when he starred in the miniseries Heartland and was voted Bachelor of the Year by Cleo magazine.
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Aaron Pedersen came to notice in 1995 as co-host of Gladiators Australia, an Australian game show.
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Aaron Pedersen appeared as Cam Delray in ABC Television's Jack Irish series, beginning in 2012 and running for several seasons.
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Aaron Pedersen took the lead role of Detective Jay Swan in Ivan Sen's Mystery Road, a role he reprised in its sequel film Goldstone, and its spin-off television series.
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Aaron Pedersen played war veteran Frank Gibbs in A Place to Call Home and Tom Campbell in Total Control.
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In 2007, Aaron Pedersen was the recipient of the Bob Maza Fellowship, which recognises emerging acting talent and support professional development for Indigenous actors.
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Aaron Pedersen has been nominated for many and won several awards.
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Aaron Pedersen won the Best Actor award at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival for Darklovestory.
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Aaron Pedersen was nominated for a Deadly Award for Outstanding Achievement in Film.
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Aaron Pedersen won a Deadly Award nomination for Male Actor of the Year in 2003 and 2011, and was nominated for it in 2007.
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Aaron Pedersen speaks at schools and prisons, and is concerned at the rate of incarceration of Indigenous Australians, seeing parallels with the early history of Australia, being founded as a penal colony; the link between poverty and crime.
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Aaron Pedersen was co-host of the 2011 Deadly Awards, and has undertaken many other public speaking engagements.
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Aaron Pedersen has looked out for his younger brother Vinnie, who has cerebral palsy and mild intellectual disabilities, on and off since he was a child.
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In 1997, when Aaron Pedersen was pursuing his career as an actor in Sydney, their grandmother, who had been helping to care for Vinnie in Alice Springs, died.
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The short documentary film My Brother Vinnie, written by Aaron Pedersen, directed by Steven McGregor, and shot by Warwick Thornton, was selected for the Melbourne International Film Festival and Message Sticks Indigenous Film Festival.
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Aaron Pedersen says that caring for Vinnie means that there is no space in their lives for children.
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Aaron Pedersen loves working with wood, and has a "secret desire to be a tradie".