# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-ngoombujarra
# Generated: 2026-08-15T01:26:47.373Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-ngoombujarra"
name: "David Ngoombujarra"
slug: "david-ngoombujarra"
description: "David Ngoombujarra 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 late 1980s to 2010; 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."
tagline: "Australian actor"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1967-06-27"
deathDate: "2011-07-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.03
  momentum:             0.5150214592274679
  historical:           5.504322666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     40
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0628954/"
    handle:    "nm0628954"
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ngoombujarra"
    title: "David Ngoombujarra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%DA%A4%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A8%D9%88%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "ديڤيد نجومبوچارا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ngoombujarra"
    title: "David Ngoombujarra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ngoombujarra"
    title: "David Ngoombujarra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ngoombujarra"
    title: "David Ngoombujarra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%8D%B0%EC%9D%B4%EB%B9%97_%EC%9D%91%EA%B5%BC%EB%B6%80%EC%9E%90%EB%9D%BC"
    title: "데이빗 응굼부자라"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3018539"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump