Natasha Wanganeen

Acting

Natasha Wanganeen

Born 1984-06-20

Natasha Wanganeen (born 20 June 1984) is an Aboriginal Australian actress, screenwriter and producer. She is known for her debut starring role in 2002 feature film Rabbit-Proof Fence, aged 15. Started acting when Natasha's aunt said she should attend a local drama workshop for Indigenous youth at Port Adelaide. Wanganeen is a third cousin of famous Australian footballer Gavin Wanganeen and playwright Trevor Jamieson.

Acting credits

2067 poster
5.5

A lowly utility worker is called to the future by a mysterious radio signal, he must leave his dying wife to embark on a journey that will force him to face his deepest fears in an attempt to change the fabric of reality and save humankind from its greatest environmental crisis yet.

2067

2020

Rabbit-Proof Fence poster
7.0

In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domestic staff, and set off on a trek across the Outback.

Rabbit-Proof Fence

2002

Cargo poster
6.4

After being infected in the wake of a violent pandemic and with only 48 hours to live, a father struggles to find a new home for his baby daughter.

Cargo

2017

Storm Boy poster
7.1

Storm Boy lives a lonely life with his reclusive father on a desolate coastline, but when he forms a close bond with a pelican, Mr. Percival, his life takes a new and unexpected turn.

Storm Boy

2019

Limbo poster
6.1

Travis, a jaded detective, arrives in the remote outback town of Limbo to investigate the cold case murder of local Indigenous girl Charlotte Hayes 20 years ago. As truths about the murder begin to unfold, the detective gains a new insight into the unsolved case.

Limbo

2023

A Second Chance: Rivals! poster
6.9

As Maddy takes on coaching a team of young twelve-year-old gymnasts, she faces up to intense city versus country rivalry, racism, cyberbullying and her own self-doubt but eventually takes the challenge head on.

A Second Chance: Rivals!

2019

Konya poster
NR

A middle aged Aboriginal woman lives on her own in the community. Trapped in routine, Grace is determined to remain lonely and bored as punishment for her sins. With her days lost in the humdrum of a life alone and the mistakes of the past, Grace waits – for death or change, whichever comes first.

Konya

2018

Spithood poster
5.7

When a dangerous patient escapes confinement in a mental asylum and goes on a rampant killing spree, the night shift staff face their worst nightmare, as they fight for survival.

Spithood

2024

Freedom poster
NR

Upon completing his six years in jail, after taking the wrap for his brother Chris's crime, Rick finds his family in financial hardship and he is unable to acquire a job to help provide. In the hopes of finding financial freedom for their family, Rick is lured by Chris into a uniquely well devised and low risk method of bank robbing, and the boys quickly become successful career criminals. Their success is short lived as Rick is unaware that his older brother stole this full-proof method from another career criminal, who is now demanding full compensation, drawing the brothers into a high-stakes conflict for their freedom, family, the money, and redemption.

Freedom

2018

Waiyirri poster
NR

A missionary’s wife questions her needs to "save souls" after finding solace in her new friendship with a Ngarrindjeri woman.

Waiyirri

2024

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NR

Epic and provocative, The Shadow King reworks Shakespeare's timeless tragedy King Lear as a sprawling, blood-soaked tale of two Indigenous families in Australia's north. Weaving a parable that echoes our nation's history, this ambitious new production is truly unmissable theatre of a scale and significance to match the land on which it's made.

The Shadow King

2011

A Sunburnt Christmas poster
6.8

The lives of a struggling family are upended when a runaway criminal dressed as Santa Claus crashes onto their property. A wily teenager seizes the opportunity to save the farm—and bring her fractured family back together.

A Sunburnt Christmas

2020

The Survival of Kindness poster
7.1

In a cage on a trailer in the middle of the desert, BlackWoman is abandoned, left to die. But BlackWoman seems not ready. She escapes, journeying through pestilence and persecution, from desert to mountain and finally to city, on a quest for an unknown beginning. But the city is more uncertain even than the desert, and recaptured, BlackWoman must find another escape. Or does she?

The Survival of Kindness

2023

Killer Native poster
6.0

A bitingly wicked take on first contact between British settlers and Aboriginal people – and zombies.

Killer Native

2019

Bunker: The Last Fleet poster
7.0

The year is 2057. For six years the extraterrestrial invaders have occupied our world. The harvest of humankind has begun. When they arrived, everything was lost. The people, the land, the system… gone.

Bunker: The Last Fleet

Wild poster
NR

When Rosie Fields gets a call that her younger brother Tyson is at the police station, she knows the police are the least of his problems. Already irate at having to leave work, Rosie’s anger is pushed to its limit when she hears what Tyson is in trouble for. Can a cheeky smile and two cowering cops stand in the way of a sister pushed to breaking point?

Wild

2018

Behind the camera