Actor
Clarence John Ryan
20 films
Clarence Ryan is an Australian actor. Clarence Ryan is the nephew of Trevor Jamieson, which they discovered while filming Lockie Leonard in 2007. He has been acting since he was 14.
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Ryan played the lead role in Wrong Kind of Black, was a co-lead in September and featured in a segment of We Are Still Here.
He played a lead in Lockie Leonard, as well as in KGB, an Australian comedy series following two rookie detectives through Perth, appeared in the second season of Cleverman and in the third series of Mystery Road.
Other featured roles include the film Blueback (film); the historical documentary Yagan, about the Noongar warrior Yagan; and the 2014 stage production of King Hit, which follows the life of Geoffrey Narkle, an Aboriginal man and a member of the Stolen Generations, and his boxing career during reflecting on culture, identity, and finding strength.
For his performance in September he was nominated for 2008 AFI Award for Best Young Actor and for his performance in Mystery Road: Origin he was nominated for the 2023 Logie Award Most Outstanding Supporting Actor.
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First watchFuriosa: A Mad Max Saga20247.4as Black ThumbAs the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus.View filmEssential films
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Filmography
20 films as actor- TBATwice Over
- 2025KangarooNick
- 2024The MoogaiRay Boy
- 2024He Ain't HeavyDaniel
- 2024Furiosa: A Mad Max SagaBlack Thumb
- 2023We Are Still HereKen
- 2022BluebackBriggs
- 2021Good NightMan
- 2021Moon Rock for MondayJohnny
- 2019Dark Place
- 2019Killer NativeBlackfella
- 2019Between Two LinesBurt
- 2018The Decadent and DepravedCoen/Aboriginal Hunter
- 2017OtherLifeByron Finbar
- 2017BlightCriminal
- 2017Dirt TinSam
- 2017Nobody's ChildBoxer
- 2016GhostYawang
- 2007SeptemberPaddy Parker
- 2006Lapislazuli - Im Auge des BärenBataa