Who Do You Think You Are?: Aug 25

This week on Who Do You Think You Are?, actor David Wenham is tracing an elusive paper trail of his father being adopted by the Wenham family in Sydney, but holding a birth name of Bateup.

Actor David Wenham rose to fame as ‘Diver Dan’ in the long-running TV series SeaChange. He has inhabited countless characters in a 30 year career spanning theatre, TV and film but the characters in David’s own bloodline remain largely unknown to him. David was very close to his father, now deceased, yet he knows remarkably little about his background. He does know that his father’s birth name was not Wenham but Bateup.

Delving into the mystery behind his father’s fostered childhood, David uncovers tales of horror and valour in the trenches of Gallipoli and the Somme, the double life of a homecoming hero, and a mother’s struggle to stay connected to her son.

7:30pm Tuesday on SBS.