Cameron Nugent (born 1974) is an Australian actor, director, writer and producer.
Early life
Nugent began his acting career at the age of 12, when an uncle approached him to appear in a commercial for National Nine News in 1986. Soon afterwards, he was approached by an acting agency.[2]
At the age of 22, Nugent was studying his final year of law, with the aim of working in copywriting and publishing and to only continue acting as a hobby.[2]
Years later, he studied at Deakin University, turning his focus towards television and film production, as the university's Varsity Week director, and writer and director of a number of short films. He founded the production company iCandy Productions, directing videos for Australian bands Kisschasy and Angelas Dish, receiving a YouTube Commendation for an Australian view record.[10]
His first feature was about animal cruelty in India, ATAAC: A Documentary. He then wrote, produced and directed the short films Smoking Will Kill You (selected for Cannes Film Festival), Magic and Spider Walk, among others.[10] He also directed an anti-racism commercial, for which he received an advertising nomination at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity in France.
Nugent met wife Skye during his mid-thirties in Prahran, Melbourne. Not long after they were married, Skye’s cancer resurfaced, spreading to her liver and she died five years later, in 2015. Nugent embarked on the “To Lorne with Love” charity run in 2023, running 153km from Prahran to Lorne in honour of his late wife[13] and raised over $200,000 for actor friend Samuel Johnson's charity Love Your Sister.[14]