David Ngoombujarra | |
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Born |
David Bernard Starr 27 June 1967 Meekatharra, Western Australia |
Died | 17 July 2011 Fremantle, Western Australia |
(aged 44)
Occupation | Actor |
David Ngoombujarra (27 June 1967 – 17 July 2011) was an Indigenous Australian actor of the Yamatji people. Born David Bernard Starr in Meekatharra, Western Australia, his acting career spanned over two decades from the 1980s to the present; he won three Australian Film Institute Awards. On 17 July 2011 he was found in a park in Fremantle, and taken to Fremantle Hospital where he was pronounced dead.