- Alex Outhred
Alex Outhred (1977 - 2005) is an
Australian actor . He starred as a young pubescent boy going through a sexual awakening in the 1992 Australian film, "Hammers Over The Anvil ".His character has
polio , and following a long line of actors who won awards for playingdisabled people, he won awards for his performance. Outhred won theAustralian Film Institute Young Actors Award. His co-star,Russell Crowe , one-upped him several years later for playing aschizophrenic .Ann Turner , the director, praised Outhred's ability to feign admiration with regular smiles and distant dreamy looks.External links
* [http://www.beyond.com.au/pdfs/hammers.pdf Hammers Over the Anvil press kit] (PDF)
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