Wayne Blair
Wayne Blair (born 28 November 1971) is an Indigenous Australian writer, actor and director, seen most recently on both sides of the camera in Redfern Now. He is also the director of the highly successful feature film The Sapphires.
Early life
Blair was born in Taree to Julie and Bob Blair. He has two older sisters, Janet and Mandy. Though he was born in Taree, he describes himself as a Batjala Mununjali Wakkawakka man.
Bob Blair was a soldier, so the young Wayne moved around. While Blair was still young, his father was posted to Woodside in South Australia, then when Wayne was a teenager his family was sent to Rockhampton. In Rockhampton he excelled at cricket and rugby, then later became interested in acting and dancing at school. Blair had a job as a tour guide at Rockhampton's Dreamtime Cultural Centre, where he was also one of the dancers. He went on to do a marketing degree, though his elective subjects included Comic Drama and Australian Drama. He briefly went to Sydney to play rugby league for the Canterbury Bulldogs under-21s. After a failed audition for NIDA in 1992, he eventually did a three-year course at the Queensland University of Technology in acting.
Wayne Blair (cricketer)
Wayne Leslie Blair (born 11 May 1948 in Dunedin) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played first-class cricket for Otago from 1967 to 1991.
Blair made his first-class debut for Otago in 1967-68 as an opening batsman. He played all that season and all the next, reaching 50 only once, when he scored 83 in the last match of the 1968-69 season. He moved down the order in 1969-70, keeping wicket in one match and winning selection in a New Zealand Under-23 team against the touring Australians, when he top-scored in the second innings with 40. He returned to the opening position and produced a number of useful but not large scores up to the end of the 1973-74 season.
After a time out of first-class cricket he returned in 1977-78 and maintained his place. He made his first century in the match against Canterbury in 1980-81, batting at number four. After Canterbury declared at 409 for 5, Otago were dismissed for 224 (Blair top-scoring with 88) and, following on, 266 (Blair again top-scoring with 140). His other century came the following season, when he scored 132 out of a total of 274 against Wellington.
Blair, Wayne Filmography
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2015, role: director
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2014, role: actor , character name: Aaron Davis
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2014, role: director
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2014, role: writer
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2014, role: actor , character name: Thanks
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2013, role: actor , character name: Himself - Red Carpet Interview
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2013, role: actor , character name: Bobby Walshe
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2013, role: actor , character name: Max
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2012, role: director
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2012, role: actor , character name: Willis
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2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2011, role: actor
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2011, role: actor , character name: Bob
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2009, role: actor , character name: James Parker
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2009, role: writer
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2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2007, role: actor , character name: Koori Salesman
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2006, role: actor , character name: Det. Lacey
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2005, role: director
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2005, role: actor , character name: Wayne the Compare
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2005, role: writer
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2004, role: actor , character name: Det. Snr. Const. Lacey
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2002, role: director
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2002, role: writer
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2001, role: actor , character name: James
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1997, role: actor , character name: DJ Dan
Blair, Wayne Filmography
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2013, role: editor
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2011, role: editor
