Brandon Walters Video | Celebrity Interview and Paparazzi

Brandon Walters (born 1996) is an Indigenous Australian child actor known for his performance as Nullah in the 2008 film Australia. Walters was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of six, but overcame the cancer after spending a year in a Perth hospital in 2003. Australia director Baz Luhrmann had been searching for a young aboriginal boy to fill the role of "Nullah" for over twelve months when one of the film's casting directors saw Walters with his father at a Broome swimming pool in 2007; he also responded to an Australia-wide radio callout for auditions. He later received a letter from... MORE

Brandon Walters (born 1996) is an Indigenous Australian child actor known for his performance as Nullah in the 2008 film Australia. Walters was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of six, but overcame the cancer after spending a year in a Perth hospital in 2003. Australia director Baz Luhrmann had been searching for a young aboriginal boy to fill the role of "Nullah" for over twelve months when one of the film's casting directors saw Walters with his father at a Broome swimming pool in 2007; he also responded to an Australia-wide radio callout for auditions. He later received a letter from Luhrmann saying that he was "very, very interested" in him. Walters, who had never before left Western Australia, and a group of other boys who had auditioned for the role were flown to Sydney, New South Wales to attend acting workshops at Fox Studios Australia. He and his family went camping with Luhrmann at Broome's Eighty Mile Beach, which was when Walters decided to take the role and become involved in the film. When Walters joined the cast, he had never heard of Nicole Kidman or Hugh Jackman, the film's stars. Walters had only ever seen a few films, but was nevertheless quoted by Luhrmann as LESS