Sense and Serendipity DAVID WENHAM’S ELLIPSIS
‘For the last fifteen years, I have been a frustrated director in an actor’s body.’
When David Wenham made this declaration during a Q&A at the 2017 Melbourne International Film Festival, he had been acting for exactly thirty years. Starting out with bit parts in local television treasures like Sons and Daughters and A Country Practice, he soon became a familiar face for Australian audiences. Though he never made the permanent transition to Hollywood, he did have his fifteen minutes of international fame when he landed the role of Faramir in two of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films (2002’s The Two Towers and 2003’s The Return of the King). And he’s not done yet. After three decades, Wenham’s career as an actor is still booming; in the past two years alone, he has added to his filmography Ivan Sen’s Goldstone (2016), Garth Davis’ Lion (2016) and three of the most talked-about series on Australian television – Top of the Lake: China Girl and the small-screen reboots of Wake in Fright and Romper Stomper. With no shortage of roles and his passion
