Nathan Coenen

Nathan Jozeph Peter Coenen was born in Henley Beach, South Australia. His father, Joep Coenen, being a gold mining engineer, they traveled and lived in different towns across Australia, including Darwin and Norseman, until they finally settled in Perth, WA. Coenen attended Hollywood Primary School in Perth. His first experience of acting came in one of their school plays in year 2, "Jack and the Beanstalk", in which he played Jack. From then on out, Coenen sought many different creative outlets at the suggestion of the school drama teacher, which included talent quests for singing and dancing, as well as joining Perth community theatre company, Prompt Corner, where he met his first ever acting coach, Gerry Atkinson. Coenen continued to act in many amateur theatre productions with Prompt Corner, and his move into professional screen work came in 2004 with the short film, Little Man, directed by Julius Avery, which went on to have a successful run in the Festival circuits in Australia