promoting cultural exchange between Australia and Asia. He was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in June 2001, and in the same year was awarded the Centenary Medal. In 2003, he received the inaugural Dame Elisabeth Murdoch Cultural Leader of the year Award. He won the Dorothy Crawford Award for services to Australian writers. In 2007 Carrillo was named Victorian of the Year in recognition of his cultural and philanthropic service to Victoria. In the same year he was named Victorian Senior Australian of the Year. In 2008 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of The Australian Academy of the Humanities. In 2018 he was appointed an adjunct professor at the Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture, Western Sydney University. References Four Winds Festival: Artists Biography External links 1944 births Living people Australian male soap opera actors Australian people of Belarusian-Jewish descent Australian philanthropists Philanthropists from Melbourne Companions of the Order of Australia Officers of the Order of Australia Recipients of the Centenary Medal 20th-century Australian male actors Myer family