Clarence John Ryan
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Known for: Acting
Also known as: Clarence Ryan, Κλάρενς Ράιαν
Biography
Clarence Ryan is an Australian actor. Clarence Ryan is the nephew of Trevor Jamieson, which they discovered while filming Lockie Leonard in 2007. He has been acting since he was 14. Ryan played the lead role in Wrong Kind of Black, was a co-lead in September and featured in a segment of We Are Still Here. He played a lead in Lockie Leonard, as well as in KGB, an Australian comedy series following two rookie detectives through Perth, appeared in the second season of Cleverman and in the third series of Mystery Road. Other featured roles include the film Blueback (film); the historical documentary Yagan, about the Noongar warrior Yagan; and the 2014 stage production of King Hit, which follows the life of Geoffrey Narkle, an Aboriginal man and a member of the Stolen Generations, and his boxing career during reflecting on culture, identity, and finding strength. For his performance in September he was nominated for 2008 AFI Award for Best Young Actor and for his performance in Mystery Road: Origin he was nominated for the 2023 Logie Award Most Outstanding Supporting Actor.
Movie Credits
September
2007-11-29
The friendship of two 15-year-old boys – one black, one white – begins to fall apart under the stres
Lapislazuli - Im Auge des Bären
2006-02-14
In the middle of the mountain wilderness of the Alps, a glowing meteorite strikes a glacier and brin
We Are Still Here
2023-02-02
In a sweeping tale that spans 1000 years and multiple generations – from the distant past to the 19t
The Moogai
2024-10-31
A young Aboriginal couple brings home their second baby. What should be a joyous time takes a sinist
Good Night
2021-10-23
A busy sound engineer (Clarence Ryan) accepts a last-minute recording job from a stranger (Caroline
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
2024-05-22
As the world falls, young Furiosa is snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers into the hands of
He Ain't Heavy
2024-10-17
A desperate woman kidnaps and enforces rehab on her violent brother in a last-ditch effort to save t
Blight
2017-06-08
Aided by a female Aboriginal tracker, a constable hunts a band of dangerous criminals on Australia's
OtherLife
2017-06-16
Ren Amari is the driven inventor of a revolutionary new drug. OtherLife expands the brain's sense of
The Decadent and Depraved
2018-07-04
In a remote and dark place in the outback of Western Australia, the wanted man Leon Murphey (Ben Mor
Ghost
2016-04-01
Based on a true story, Ghost is a re-imagining of convict William Buckley's first contact with the i
Between Two Lines
2019-06-09
When two First World War enemy soldiers become stranded in no man’s land, an unlikely bond is formed
Dark Place
2019-06-15
An Australian Indigenous horror anthology with five terrifically twisted tales by five Indigenous fi
Killer Native
2019-06-15
A bitingly wicked take on first contact between British settlers and Aboriginal people – and zombies
Nobody's Child
2017-01-01
Lolly has always searched for her father who abandoned her and her sister DeDe, believing that findi
Yagan
2013-10-13
When Lieutenant-Governor James Stirling established Western Australia's Swan River colony (later the
Moon Rock for Monday
2021-05-06
Set in Sydney, 1999, after an unlikely encounter at a train station, a young girl befriends a fugiti
Blueback
2022-12-29
Based on the best-selling novel by Tim Winton, Blueback is a timely tale about the ocean, a beautifu
Kangaroo
2025-08-21
Ex TV personality, Chris Masterman, becomes stranded in an Outback town outside Alice Springs. There
Dirt Tin
2017-02-23
Paul wants nothing more than to get into the hottest club in town, Dirt Tin, but Sam the bouncer jus