Mirrah Foulkes

An Australian actor, writer and director, Mirrah Foulkes was raised on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Her screen work includes the features Dying Breed (2008), Animal Kingdom (2010), Sleeping Beauty (2011) and The Turning (2013), and television roles such as Jo Mathieson in All Saints, Simone in Top of the Lake and lawyer Ellie Clayton in Hawaii Five-0. She has also written and directed short films. Dumpy Goes to the Big Smoke (2012) won her Best Director at the Sydney Film Festival and brought two AACTA nominations, while Florence Has Left the Building (2015), starring Jacki Weaver, took the AACTA Award for best short fiction in 2015. Her short Trespass received an international premiere in Toronto in 2016. She co-wrote the short Eugene and is the only woman in the film-making collective Blue-Tongue Films. Her acting earned a Logie nomination for Best New Female Talent and an AACTA supporting actress nomination for The Turning.