It was one of the most richly deserved and hardest earned awards at this year’s AACTA awards ceremony.
Michael Caton – best-known as Uncle Harry from the 1970s super-soap The Sullivans and, more recently, as Darryl Kerrigan from the classic 1997 Aussie comedy The Castle – took the Best Actor award for his moving performance as Rex, a cancer-stricken cab driver in Last Cab to Darwin.
The film tracks Rex’s cross-continent drive from Broken Hill to Darwin, where he hopes to take advantage of new euthanasia laws and end his life on his terms.
