Damon Gameau

Damon Gameau is an Australian actor and director who also produces, and he trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1999. Born in 1982 and raised in Adelaide, he appeared in the films The Tracker (2002) and Balibo (2009), playing reporter Greg Shackleton, a part that earned him an AFI Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He starred in the television miniseries Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities and appeared in the Irish drama Raw, and in 2007 he won Best Actor at the Sydney Underground Film Festival for Vermin. He won Tropfest in 2011 with the animation Animal Beatbox. His documentary That Sugar Film (2014) won Best Documentary at the 2016 Australian Film and Television Awards and became the highest-grossing Australian documentary across Australia and New Zealand. He followed it with 2040 (2019), which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival.