Clarence Ryan

Clarence Ryan is an Australian actor.

Early life and family

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.

Career

Ryan was a co-lead in the 2007 film September and in the same year played a lead role in the TV series Lockie Leonard. He also starred in the 2012 historical documentary Yagan, about the Noongar warrior Yagan.

In 2014 he performed on stage in 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.

Ryan played the lead role in Wrong Kind of Black, released in 2018 as a web series and telemovie, created, written, and narrated by the Aboriginal author and storyteller, Boori Monty Pryor, on whose life it is based.

He appeared in the second season of Cleverman in 2017. In 2020 he starred in KGB, an Australian comedy series following two rookie detectives through Perth, and in 2022 he appeared in the third series of Mystery Road. On 23 November 2024, ABC had announced that a second season of Mystery Road: Origin was in production and Ryan would reprise his role as Sputty.

In 2022 he featured in a segment of We Are Still Here. and in 2023, in the film Blueback (film).

Ryan plays the mechanic Black Thumb in Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, released in March 2024, and in October 2024 plays an ambitious Indigenous cattle station owner in the Netflix series Territory.

Accolades

For his performance in September he was nominated for the 2008 AFI Award for Best Young Actor and for his performance in Mystery Road: Origin he was nominated for the 2023 Logie Award for Most Outstanding Supporting Actor.