Natasha Wanganeen was born on 20 June 1984 and is an Aboriginal Australian actress.
14 Facts About Natasha Wanganeen
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Natasha Wanganeen is known for her starring role in the 2002 feature film Rabbit-Proof Fence and numerous television roles.
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Natasha Wanganeen made her debut as co-writer and co-producer in a 2022 short film, an Indigenous sci-fi drama entitled Bunker: The Last Fleet, about an alien invasion of Australia.
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Natasha Wanganeen is a Ngarrindjeri, Narungga, Kaurna and Noongar woman.
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Natasha Wanganeen appeared in Rabbit-Proof Fence, playing a dormitory boss at the age of 15, and the made-for-TV film Jessica directed by Peter Andrikidis and released in 2004.
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In June 2020, Natasha Wanganeen was writing a script for her own independent film, Battle of the Ancestors, set 60,000 years ago against a backdrop of Aboriginal mythology, including Dreamtime stories and characters she knows from here childhood years.
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Natasha Wanganeen is being supported by Screen Australia and the South Australian Film Corporation in this endeavour, and is in talks with local production companies who are interested in seeing it made.
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Natasha Wanganeen was on the jury for the Feature Fiction and Documentary awards at the 2020 Adelaide Film Festival.
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Natasha Wanganeen plays a government official in 2067, a sci-fi thriller feature film directed by Seth Larney released in 2020.
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Natasha Wanganeen plays Tjarra, an Aboriginal warrior in Australia 37 years in the future, and Kaurna elder Uncle Fred Agius plays the role of an elder.
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In 2018, Natasha Wanganeen advocated for greater cultural diversity in Australian screen culture, saying "There are not enough black faces on our screens and talking about it is a constructive conversation that we need to have".
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Natasha Wanganeen expressed her pleasure at the portrayal of Aboriginal people in Cargo as "living free and strong on the land".
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Natasha Wanganeen was one of the organisers of the Black Lives Matter protest in Adelaide on 6 June 2020, which focussed on racism and injustices against Indigenous Australians, in particular high rates of incarceration and Aboriginal deaths in custody.
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Natasha Wanganeen is related to Australian rules footballer Gavin Wanganeen, and actor and playwright Trevor Jamieson is a cousin.