Brandon Walters
Biography
Brandon Walters (born January 1996) is an Indigenous Australian actor known for his performance as Nullah in the 2008 film Australia.
Born in Broome, Western Australia, Walters was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 6 but overcame cancer after spending a year in a Perth hospital in 2003.
Australia director Baz Luhrmann had been searching for a young aboriginal boy to fill the role of "Nullah" for over 12 months when one of the film's casting directors saw Walters with his father at a Broome swimming pool in 2007; he also responded to an Australia-wide radio callout for auditions.
He later received a letter from Luhrmann saying that he was "very, very interested" in him.
Luhrmann, who also cast Walters in a Tourism Australia advertising campaign, claimed, “Our next leading man is about four-foot high, [with] long, sort of gold hair, and is an Aboriginal boy.”
For his performance as Nullah, Walters won a Satellite Award for New Talent and received nominations for Best Young Actor at the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards and Most Promising Performer at the Chicago Film Critics Association Awards.
He also starred in the first (2012) season of the ABC3 series Bushwhacked!, but was replaced in the second (2014) season by Kamil Ellis.
In 2020, Walters appeared in two television series: the comedy-drama Operation Buffalo and the murder mystery series Mystery Road.
