Ernie Dingo

Ernie Dingo is an Indigenous Australian actor, comedian, and television presenter from the Yamatji people of Western Australia. Born in that state and raised in Mullewa, he moved to Perth, where meeting Richard Walley led to a 1976 public Welcome to Country performance that helped launch his career. In the 1980s he began appearing in films, including the title role in the television biopic Tudawali and Bruce Beresford's The Fringe Dwellers. He gained wider exposure with a major supporting part in Crocodile Dundee II (1988) and a major role in Wim Wenders's Until the End of the World (1991). He also starred in Blackfellas and Dead Heart (1996), then returned to film in the Aboriginal musical Bran Nue Dae (2009). On television he joined Fast Forward in 1989 and hosted The Great Outdoors from 1993 to 2009. He won an AFI Award for A Waltz Through the Hills and in 1990 was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia.