Natasha Wanganeen

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Summary

Natasha Wanganeen is an Australian actor and emerging writer-director whose screen work includes Rabbit-Proof Fence, Cargo, Limbo and the sci-fi project Bunker. She has called for more Indigenous actors and Black faces on Australian screens and criticized the stereotyped roles historically offered to Indigenous performers. As a writer and director, she has said she wants to foreground First Nations strengths rather than focus only on trauma. Wanganeen has also hosted and spoken at Adelaide rallies addressing First Nations rights and deaths in custody, including a 2020 Black Lives Matter rally.