Natasha Wanganeen

Natasha Wanganeen

Born: June 20, 1984
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.

Movies for Natasha Wanganeen...

Waiyirri
Title: Waiyirri
Character: Lacardi
Released: February 2, 2024
Type: Movie
A missionary’s wife questions her needs to "save souls" after finding solace in her new friendship with a Ngarrindjeri woman.
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Limbo
Title: Limbo
Character: Emma
Released: May 18, 2023
Type: Movie
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.
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The Survival of Kindness
Title: The Survival of Kindness
Character: WailingWoman
Released: May 4, 2023
Type: Movie
In a cage on a trailer in the middle of the desert, BlackWoman (Mwajemi Hussein) 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?
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Title: The Tourist
Character: CCTV Gift Shop Employee
Released: January 1, 2022
Type: TV
When a man wakes up in the Australian outback with no memory, he must use the few clues he has to discover his identity before his past catches up with him.
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Title: Firebite
Character: Rona
Released: December 16, 2021
Type: TV
In a remote South-Australian desert mining town — a hive for the last vampire stronghold — two Indigenous Australian hunters embark on a quest to battle the last colony of vampires.
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Title: Aftertaste
Character: Line Cook
Released: February 3, 2021
Type: TV
The story of Easton West, an internationally-renowned yet volatile celebrity chef who has a spectacular fall from grace and returns to his hometown in the Adelaide Hills, Australia.
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2067
Title: 2067
Character: Government Offical
Released: October 1, 2020
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Upright
Character: Dodgy Looking Woman #2
Released: November 28, 2019
Type: TV
When family outcast Lucky Flynn learns that his mother is dying, he decides to drive to the other side of Australia to see her, packing nothing but an upright piano for the journey. But his plans are soon turned upside down when he meets the runaway teenager Meg, who’s dealing with some family demons of her own.
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A Second Chance: Rivals!
Title: A Second Chance: Rivals!
Character: Mary
Released: September 21, 2019
Type: Movie
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.
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Killer Native
Title: Killer Native
Character: Ghoul
Released: June 15, 2019
Type: Movie
A bitingly wicked take on first contact between British settlers and Aboriginal people – and zombies.
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Wild
Title: Wild
Character: Rosie Fields
Released: October 15, 2018
Type: Movie
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?
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Freedom
Title: Freedom
Character: Terry
Released: October 15, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Konya
Title: Konya
Character: Angelica
Released: October 13, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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Cargo
Title: Cargo
Character: Josie
Released: October 6, 2017
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: Through My Eyes
Character: Interpreter
Released: October 23, 2004
Type: TV
The true life story of Lindy Chamberlain and her recount of a dingo taking her baby
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Rabbit-Proof Fence
Title: Rabbit-Proof Fence
Character: Nina, Dormitory Boss
Released: February 4, 2002
Type: Movie
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.
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Bunker: The Last Fleet
Title: Bunker: The Last Fleet
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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.