From a small mining town in Australia to the American stage, Australian-born Cody Fern has taken many routes during his pursuit to strengthen and further his acting skills. Now, Fern is the 2014 recipient of Australians in Film’s sixth annual Heath Ledger Scholarship, an award aimed at financially and professionally supporting actors of Australian descent. On Thursday night, Fern accepted the award, which also includes a $10,000 denarni sklad, a two year scholarship at Los Angeles’ Stella Adler Academy of Acting and Theatre and mentorship from the father of the late actor Heath Ledger, at the fundraising dinner held at the SLS Hotel. Moving ahead, Fern said he looks forward to future roles he wants to pursue, outside passions and actors that have inspired him.
What does the scholarship mean to you?
It’s profoundly important as an actor and as an individual coming from Australia. To je ena stvar, da je treba podpreti v vaši karieri in še ena stvar, za svojimi vrstniki, da vas objem in pravijo, verjamemo v vas. Zdi se, kot občutka pripadnosti, in zlasti kot igralec, morate tiste trenutke v vašem življenju, ki vam pove, da gredo in loviš to noro sanje, ki ste jih imeli v svojem življenju.
Cody Fern, 25, premagati drugouvrščena Charlotte Best in os Whitehead za $20,000 nagrada.
Western Australian actor Cody Fern was named the Australians In Film Heath Ledger Zmagovalec štipendija 2014 at a celebratory dinner in Los Angeles on Thursday that was hosted by musician, igralec in režiser, Tim Minchin.
25-let stara, best known for his role as Albert in the Australian version of the National Theatre of Great Britain production of Vojni konj, je zagotovljen $20,000 nagrada pred hudo konkurenco iz drugega 19 mladi avstralski igralci, with Australian Idol alum and Home and Away star os Whitehead in Charlotte Best named as runners-up.
Fern pravi, da zaradi oddaje, je zdaj sposoben hitrem svoje načrte za selitev v Los Angeles, kje je že v pogovorih za več projektov.
“Vedno sem imel načrte, da pridejo v Los Angeles; Zdaj je to realnost in se bo zgodilo veliko prej,” Fern told Hollywood Reporter. “Tukaj je nekaj zanimivih projektov dogaja, to je videti svetla in nagrada zaradi česar je vse mogoče,” je dodal.
HE GREW up in a tiny Outback town and did not set foot on a stage until three years go.
Now, at 24, Cody Fern has been cast in the coveted lead role for the Australian run of international stage sensation Vojni konj.
It goes without saying that he’s thrilled to have landed a dream role, but despite his isolated upbringing, Fern’s path into it has been anything except accidental.
He has twice sold everything he owns, turned down a lucrative corporate career offer and followed his gut feeling into total uncertainty.
This year, he arrived in Sydney from Western Australia without a job, a home or a friend in sight to blindly pursue what he believes he was born to do: act.
“I’ve known since I was about six that I wanted to be an actor, but I grew up in a very small country town and it was just not something that was possible,” Fern says.