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Trevor Jamieson

Trevor Jamieson (born 7 March 1975) is an Aboriginal Australian stage and film actor, playwright, dancer, singer and didgeridoo player.

Trevor Jamieson was born on 7 March 1975 in Subiaco, Western Australia (WA).

He grew up in the Western Australian Goldfields region, mostly around Kalgoorlie, Esperance, and Norseman, but his people are mostly of the Central Desert, in particular Nullarbor and Maralinga. He has links to Pitjantjara (on his father's side), Kukatja, and other groups, including the Noongar peoples of south-western WA (on his mother's side). His mother was removed from his grandmother by missionaries soon after birth, so as a child he learnt more about his father's side. His father and his grandfather were policemen.

His aunt, Lynette Markle, is the niece of playwright Jack Davis, so he was exposed to drama at an early age, and enjoyed being in a play at school. Thinking about signing up as a constable at the end of 1992, Markle persuaded him to go for an audition, which led to the first step in his career - a role in the stage musical Bran Nue Dae, which toured nationally.

He is a cousin of South Australian actress Natasha Wanganeen and an uncle of actor Clarence Ryan, whom he met while filming Lockie Leonard, where they play father and son.

Jamieson is an actor, dancer, singer, playwright, and didgeridoo player.

Jamieson's first stage performance was in the touring producing of Bran Nue Dae in 1993. In 1994 he acted in Wild Cat Falling at the Downstairs Theatre at the Belvoir in Sydney. In 1996 he was in Corrugation Road, another musical by Jimmy Chi, this time set in a mental hospital.

He co-wrote The Career Highlights of the MAMU with Scott Rankin, staged in 2002. This was a dramatisation of the impact of the British nuclear testing at Maralinga, South Australia between 1956 and 1963 on the Indigenous Australians in the region, who were known as the Spinifex people. A video recording was made of the production performed by Black Swan Theatre Company at the Kampnagel theatre in Hamburg, Germany in August 2002. The play was directed by Andrew Ross of Black Swan, and performed at the 2002 Adelaide Festival and the Octagon Theatre at the University of Western Australia (UWA) in May–June 2002, before touring to Mandurah, Margaret River, and Esperance.

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