David Gulpilil AM (b. 1953), actor and dancer, was born near Maningrida in Arnhem Land, a man of the Mandalbingu people. He was sixteen when the British filmmaker Nicholas Roeg saw him performing a traditional dance and cast him in Walkabout (1971). Subsequently, he appeared in Storm Boy (1976), Mad Dog Morgan (1976), The Last Wave (1977) and Crocodile Dundee (1986); and in television productions such as The Timeless Land, Homicide and Rush. His performance in The Tracker (2002) saw him…
