Publicity still of Shirley Ann Richards as Lorna Quidley, Lloyd Hughes as Daubenny Carshott and Elaine Hamill as Stella Raff examining a film strip.

Starstruck Movie Portraits

Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits

The NFSA and the National Portrait Gallery proudly present a star-studded exhibition.

Starstruck: Australian Movie Portraits explores striking portraits emerging from 100 years of Australian movies and draws extensively on items from the NFSA collection.

This curated collection of images from the exhibition includes photographs of Nicole Kidman, Toni Collette, Hugo Weaving, Geoffrey Rush, Abbie Cornish, Heath Ledger and Chips Rafferty.

Learn more about the exhibition at the Starstruck exhibition website.

WARNING: this collection contains names, images or voices of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Abbie Cornish as Candy and Heath Ledger as Dan smiling at each other and in an embrace.

Abbie Cornish and Heath Ledger in Candy

Photographer Hugh Hartshorne captured this still representing an early scene from Candy (Neil Armfield, Australia, 2006).

Publicity still of Lloyd Hughes as Daubenny Carshott and Elaine Hamill as Stella Raff examining a film strip.

Lovers and Luggers

The stars of Lovers and Luggers - Shirley Ann Richards, Lloyd Hughes and Elaine Hamill - exude glamour.

Nicole Kidman as Rae Ingram in Dead Calm holding a spear gun.

Nicole Kidman in Dead Calm

Nicole Kidman was only 20 years old when she was cast in the role of Rae Ingram in Phillip Noyce's psychological thriller Dead Calm (Australia, 1989).

Vera James

Coming across this portrait by prolific publicity stills photographers Witzel Studios from her time at Universal Studios 50 years earlier, Vera James remembered: 'They said to me … let's see if we

Geoffrey Rush as Basil Hunter on a ferry in Sydney.

Geoffrey Rush in The Eye of the Storm

Stills photographer Matt Nettheim captured this portrait while hanging out the window of the ferry in the rain.

Lewis Fitz-Gerald as Lieutenant George Ramsdale Witton in Breaker Morant.

Lewis Fitz-Gerald in Breaker Morant

Director Bruce Beresford's Breaker Morant (Australia, 1980) was a tense psychological drama of injustice and brutal pragmatism in which the British put a group of Australians on trial for

Judy Davis as Sybylla and Sam Neill as Harry embrace. He is touching her neck and she is touching his arm. They look at each other lovingly.

Judy Davis and Sam Neill in My Brilliant Career

'Judy Davis, is a young lioness …' observed The London Sunday Times.

Tianna Sansbury as Daisy, Laura Monaghan as Gracie and Everlyn Sampi as Molly walking hand in hand across a salt flat.

Rabbit-Proof Fence

This portrait featuring Tianna Sansbury as Daisy, Laura Monaghan as Gracie and Everlyn Sampi as Molly, poignantly conveys the physical and emotional journey in the film Rabbit-Proof Fence

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following clip may contain images and voices of deceased persons

Heath Ledger as Jimmy and Rose Byrne as Alex in a still from Two Hands. The shot is grainy and plays with focus. They are in an embrace while they lean on a wall. Ledger looks at the camera.

Heath Ledger and Rose Byrne in Two Hands

Directed by Gregor Jordan, Two Hands is a morality tale. Heath Ledger is Jimmy, a naïve 19-year-old who wants to make it big in Sydney’s infamous Kings Cross district.

A still of Chips Rafferty holding up his hair with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth.

Chips Rafferty in Forty Thousand Horsemen

Filmed partially in the Cronulla sandhills near Sydney during the Second World War, Forty Thousand Horsemen (Charles Chauvel, Australia, 1940) celebrates the Australian Light Horse of the

Toni Collette as Muriel trying on a wedding dress.

Toni Collette in Muriel's Wedding

Director PJ Hogan's award-winning comedy Muriel's Wedding (Australia, 1994) celebrates Muriel as a misfit and a daydreamer determined to escape her dysfunctional family.

Mark McManus as Will and Jeanie Drynan as Jacky kiss in a full close-up.

Mark McManus and Jeanie Drynan in 2000 Weeks

Mark McManus as Will and Jeanie Drynan as Jacky in a photograph by Mark Strizic and Robin Copping from Two Thousand Weeks (Tim Burstall, Australia, 1969).

Rose Byrne as Iris in The Tender Hook, looks out a window that is fogged over and covered in raindrops.

Rose Byrne in The Tender Hook

At the beginning of The Tender Hook (John Ogilvie, Australia, 2008), Iris's face can be seen through a car window, gazing out into a rainy night in 1920s Sydney.

Hugo Weaving as Sergeant Farrat in The Dressmaker. He is standing in uniform alongside a fence.

Hugo Weaving in The Dressmaker

Arriving in the dead of night at the remote wheat-belt town of Dungatar, Tilly Dunnage (Kate Winslet) stages a strange and defiant homecoming in The Dressmaker (Jocelyn Moorhouse, Australi

Publicity portrait featuring Jo Kennedy as Jackie Mullens wearing a tutu and crown with spiked hair.

Ross O'Donovan and Jo Kennedy in Starstruck

'Starstruck (Gillian Armstrong, Australia, 1982) is about being a kid with dreams', remarked Ross O'Donovan, who plays Angus, in an interview celebrating the NFSA's newly restored

My Brilliant Career star Judy Davis sits listening to director Gillian Armstrong as they sit on fold-up chairs on location at Michelago.

Sam Neill, Judy Davis and Gillian Armstrong

This serendipitous shot captured by photographer David Kynoch depicts the transitional stage where actors Sam Neill and Judy Davis are assuming their characters and director Gillian Armstrong is de

Charlotte Francis as Alma Lee after a morning swim.

Charlotte Francis in The Silence of Dean Maitland

'A quaint distinction of manner and a seductive voice … ' is how the Richmond River Herald described Charlotte Francis in 1936.

Noah Taylor as Danny trying to hypnotise Loene Carmen as Freya on Willy Hill.

Noah Taylor and Loene Carmen in The Year My Voice Broke

Stills photographer Robert McFarlane captured this image on the set of The Year My Voice Broke (John Duigan, Australia, 1987).

Paul Mercurio as Scott and Tara Morice as Fran. They are wearing their costumes for their Paso Doble dance performance.

Scott and Fran in Strictly Ballroom

This portrait was shot by stills photographer Philip Le Masurier during the climactic scene of Strictly Ballroom (Baz Luhrmann, Australia, 1992) set at the Pan Pacific Grand Prix dancing c

Greg Rowe as Storm Boy holds Mr Percival the pelican as they sit on a boat together. Greg looks very sad.

Greg Rowe and Mr Percival in Storm Boy

Greg Rowe was 11 years old when he was cast in the lead role of Mike, the title character in Storm Boy (Henri Safran, Australia, 1976).

Linda Kozlowski as Sue Charlton and Paul Hogan as Mick ‘Crocodile’ Dundee sitting by a waterhole. He is touching her face and they are staring at each other.

Linda Kozlowski and Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee

'Mick catches barramundi – Sue invites him to New York. Mick kisses Sue. Interruption by Wally's call', was the action filmed in this scene according to a Location Schedule held in the NFSA.

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