Alex Tilman

Alex Tilman is an East Timorese actor. For his performance in Answered by Fire he was nominated for the 2007 Logie Award for Logie Award for Most Outstanding Newcomer. Tilman lived through some of the events depicted in that film, his father was a Fretilin resistance member who disappeared after being arrested in 1978. He later worked as an interpreter in the Serious Crimes Unit in Timor, including working with Australian police officer David Savage who was the inspiration for David Whenam's character in the film. Like many of the Timorese actors in the film Tilman had no prior acting experience.