Miranda Tapsell
| Miranda Tapsell | |
|---|---|
|
|
| Born |
11 June 1987 Darwin, Northern Territory |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2008–present |
| Parent(s) | Tony and Barbara Tapsell |
Miranda Tapsell (born 11 June 1987) is an Indigenous Australian actress of both stage and screen, best known for her role as Cynthia in the Wayne Blair film, The Sapphires and her award-winning 2015 performance as Martha Tennant in the Channel 9 drama series, Love Child. 2016 played Fatima in the Stan series Wolf Creek.
Tapsell is a Larrakia woman.
Miranda was born in Darwin to Tony and Barbara Tapsell. When she was five the family moved to Jabiru in West Arnhem Land, where she grew up around Kakadu National Park. In 2004, when she was 16, Tapsell won the Bell Shakespeare Company regional performance scholarship. After finishing school she moved to Sydney to study at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) from where she graduated in 2008.
Tapsell has been active both on stage and screen, starting with her 2008 performance in Dallas Winmar's play, Yibiyung, at the Belvoir Theatre, where she had the title role. In June 2010 she performed in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Old Town Hall Ruins, Darwin. Later in that year she appeared as Ngala in Kamarra Bell-Wykes' Mother's Tongue at the Yirra Yaakin Theatre in Perth, a play about a young woman's connection to her Indigenous heritage. 2012 saw Tapsell as Bonita in the mini-series Mabo and then in the breakthrough role of Cynthia McRae, one of The Sapphires, Wayne Blair's film about a group of four Indigenous singers during the Vietnam War era. Tapsell topped the year off with her appearance as Teneka in the second episode of the ABC's Redfern Now.
...
Wikipedia