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Wesley Patten

Australian actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ109767286 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wesley Patten is an Indigenous Australian actor. He was nominated for the 2020 AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his role in H is for Happiness.

In 2019, Patten was named as part of the cast for ABC political drama Total Control in the role of Eddie Irving, Patten appeared in all three seasons of the series.

In 2022, Patten was named as part of the extended cast for Last King of the Cross.

Editorial summary

“Wesley Patten” enters the record as australian actor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wesley, Patten and Australian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 2019, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Wesley, Patten and Australian.
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Why this record matters

“Wesley Patten” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Wesley, Patten and Australian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q109767286. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020, 2019 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wesley Patten” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.