Miranda Tapsell

Miranda Tapsell is a Larrakia Aboriginal Australian actress who works across stage and screen. Born in Darwin, she won a Bell Shakespeare regional performance scholarship as a teenager and graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 2008, the same year she took the title role in Dallas Winmar's play Yibiyung at the Belvoir Theatre. Her breakthrough came as Cynthia McRae in Wayne Blair's The Sapphires (2012), about a group of Indigenous singers in the Vietnam War era, followed by the television series Love Child, for which she won two Logies in 2015 playing Martha Tennant. Other screen credits include Mabo, Redfern Now and Wolf Creek, and her stage work includes The Secret River, which brought a Helpmann Award nomination, and Black is the New White. She co-wrote and starred in Top End Wedding (2019) and created and co-wrote the sequel series Top End Bub in 2025.