Sara West

Australian actress, director and screenwriter Sara West has built a career across film and television. After growing up near the Murray River in South Australia, she trained at Flinders Drama Centre in Adelaide. Her first TV role was Clarice Daley in the 2014 ABC1 drama ANZAC Girls, followed by the Seven Network series Winter. Playing Liza Minnelli in Peter Allen: Not the Boy Next Door brought her a Logie Award nomination for Most Outstanding Newcomer. She took leading roles in Bad Girl (2016) as Amy Anderson and Awoken (2019) as Karla, a medical student, and her performance in Don't Tell earned an AACTA Award nomination. On television she has played Brooke in Troppo and Cara Varga-Murphy in Neighbours. West also writes and directs, winning awards at the South Australian Screen Awards in 2014 and 2018.