Marta Dusseldorp

The actor on seeing the world – through the ages, through the eyes of refugees, and with child-like wonder.

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My fondest childhood memories are travelling as a family. I must have been about eight when we took a barge through Holland, Belgium and Germany. My sister and I slept in the nose of the barge, and Mum and Dad always had friends with us – it was all flares and fabulous people. That gave me a feeling of freedom, of having no fixed place or culture, of travelling to gather stories and be together.

Returning to Holland to see my grandfather’s home in Utrecht in my twenties was a really important moment in my life. I’d never really identified as being Australian – always a bit too big, a bit too loud – and suddenly I was seeing people who looked like me. I felt an incredible sense of belonging. Then just recently I filmed