Heath Bergersen

Heath Bergersen

Nascimento : 1976-03-08, Derby, Western Australia, Australia

História

Heath Bergersen is an Australian Indigenous actor who has worked in various Australian television series and movies. Bergersen was born in the remote township of Derby, near Broome in Western Australia, but was adopted and moved to the city of Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Western Australia, at a young age. At 16, Bergersen moved to Perth to pursue music and acting. He initially taught primary school children about Aboriginal art, culture, history and the technique of the didgeridoo. Bergersen followed his passions for music and performance by completing the Aboriginal Musical Theatre Training Course under Michael Leslie, the original choreographer of the acclaimed theatre musical Bran Nue Dae. Bergersen has appeared in the musical Bran Nu Dae, performed with the Warda Dance Group, and acted in various plays, including Wicked, No Prejudice and Runumuk. He has appeared in various television shows including Kids Co. and The Great Outdoors, performed didgeridoo for the Channel 7 Christmas Pageant, and appeared in the SBS TV documentaries Images of Us and Destination Dole. Bergersen has appeared in feature films including Rabbit Proof Fence, Mabo, Japanese Story, Secret River, and in the lead role of Jarli Cooper in ReFraction.

Perfil

Heath Bergersen
Heath Bergersen

Filmes

Mabo
Davy
Mabo tells the story of one of Australia's national heroes - Eddie Koiki Mabo, the Torres Strait Islander who left school at age 15, yet spearheaded the High Court challenge that overthrew the fiction of terra nullius.
Weewar
Dyung
In 1842 the Crown prosecuted Weewar, a Binjareb Nyungar warrior, for carrying out tribal payback by spearing Dyung of the Mooro Group. When Weewar heard that Dyung, a member of the tribe responsible for the death of his son, was moving through Binjareb Territory he was governed by one law – Traditional Aboriginal Law. Weewar’s trial became the test case in Western Australia which determined that British Law took precedence over traditional law. Dedicated to Theo Kearing a Binjareb Warrior.
Uma História Japonesa de Amor
Petrol Bloke
Sandy é geóloga, Hiromitsu um homem de negócios. Ela é australiana, ele japonês. Ela pós-feminista descomplexada, ele um japonês conservador no que diz respeito ao que considera ser o papel da mulher. Hiromitsu é um potencial cliente da empresa de Sandy, que se vê na necessidade de fazer relações públicas e passeá-lo pela Austrália. Hiromitsu quer conhecer uma mina de ferro abandonada e ambos avançam pelo deserto australiano até quase se perderem. A grandiosidade do espaço e o convívio forçado levam-nos a redescobrirem-se e a acabarem por não querer regressar. Uma história de amor forçado...
Geração Roubada
Jacky
Molly Craig (Everlyn Sampi) é uma jovem australiana de 14 anos que, em 1931, ao lado de sua irmã Daisy (Tianna Sansbury), de 10 anos, e sua prima Gracie (Laura Monaghan), de 8 anos, foge de um campo do governo britânico da Austrália, criado para treinar mulheres arborígenes para serem empregadas domésticas. Molly guia as meninas por quase três mil quilômetros através do interior do país, em busca da cerca que o divide e que a permitiria voltar para sua aldeia de origem, de onde foram tiradas dos braços de suas mães. Na jornada elas são perseguidas pelos homens do terrível governador A. O. Neville (Kenneth Branagh), o qual não admite que as meninas não estejam de acordo com o ditado pela sabedoria branca e cristã.