33 Facts About Meyne Wyatt

Meyne Wyatt was born on 1989 and is an Aboriginal Australian actor, known for his stage, film, and television roles.

From 2014 to 2016, Wyatt played the ongoing role of Nate Kinski in Neighbours.

Meyne Wyatt was born in Kalgoorlie in 1989, to Sue, a painter and children's book illustrator, and Brian, who worked for the National Native Title Council.

Meyne Wyatt's father was a Yamatji man, while his mother is from the Wongatha group, and Wyatt is the youngest of four siblings.

Meyne Wyatt attended Hale School in Perth from the age of 13.

Meyne Wyatt auditioned for full-time places at WAAPA and the National Institute of Dramatic Art, and was accepted into both.

Meyne Wyatt decided to attend NIDA and graduated in 2010.

Meyne Wyatt won the Best Newcomer accolade at the 2011 Sydney Theatre Awards for his performance as an Aboriginal teenager in Lachlan Philpott's production of Silent Disco.

In 2012, Meyne Wyatt was cast in the supporting role of Jimmy Middleton in the musical comedy film The Sapphires.

Meyne Wyatt made his debut with the Bell Shakespeare company, in a production of The School for Wives.

In early 2013, Meyne Wyatt starred in the lead role of Ralph Meyers's production of Peter Pan at the New Victory Theater.

In that same year, Meyne Wyatt filmed a supporting role in The Broken Shore, a television miniseries based on Peter Temple's 2005 novel of the same name.

Meyne Wyatt appeared in the film adaptation of Tim Winton's short story collection The Turning.

Meyne Wyatt played Frank Leaper, a footballer "who walks away at a key moment of his career", in the segment titled Family, which was directed by Shaun Gladwell.

Meyne Wyatt appeared in the second season of Redfern Now as a father whose newborn baby goes missing.

Meyne Wyatt was initially cast in the first season of the drama, but had to drop out due to a scheduling conflict.

In 2014 Meyne Wyatt joined the cast of feature film Strangerland, alongside Nicole Kidman and Joseph Fiennes.

On 20 July 2014, it was announced that Meyne Wyatt had joined the cast of long-running soap opera Neighbours as Nate Kinski.

Meyne Wyatt is the first Indigenous actor to join the main cast since the show began in 1985.

Executive producer Jason Herbison stated the decision to cast an Indigenous actor was "unintentional" and that Meyne Wyatt had been the best actor for the role.

Meyne Wyatt relocated to Melbourne for filming and made his screen debut as Nate on 18 August 2014.

Meyne Wyatt began appearing in the six-part sketch-comedy show Black Comedy in November 2014.

Meyne Wyatt took a break from Neighbours to appear in a Sydney Theatre Company production of King Lear, alongside Geoffrey Rush from November 2015 to January 2016.

The director, Neil Armfield, briefly considered re-casting the role of Edmund, as he was concerned that Meyne Wyatt would find it hard to play a man who plots to murder his father.

Meyne Wyatt left Neighbours in early 2016 and his character's last scenes aired in June that year.

In 2017, Meyne Wyatt appeared in the American series The Leftovers, which was filmed in Australia.

In 2021 Meyne Wyatt joined Shareena Clanton, Sachin Joab and Remi Hii in bringing to light racism on the set of Neighbours.

Meyne Wyatt reported several instances of racism, including "the 'c' word", and hearing multiple instances of homophobia.

Meyne Wyatt starred in the 2021 ABC television comedy series Preppers.

On 17 April 2025, Meyne Wyatt was named as part of the extended cast for series two of Return to Paradise.

In June 2020, Meyne Wyatt delivered a powerful four-minute monologue from his play City of Gold, on a special episode on ABC Television's Q+A about Black Lives Matter and Aboriginal deaths in custody.

Meyne Wyatt co-authored a children's book, Maku, with Randa Abdel-Fattah, published in 2022.

Meyne Wyatt has featured as an actor in short films, feature films, telemovies, and television series, and has written for television.