Tara Morice

Tara Morice is an Australian actress, singer and dancer who began performing on stage as a teenager. Born in Hobart, Tasmania, she made her stage debut at the city's Theatre Royal in The Diary of Anne Frank at 16 and trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1987. She first played Fran in Baz Luhrmann's Strictly Ballroom as a stage production in 1988, then took the part in the film Strictly Ballroom (1992), earning BAFTA and Australian Film Institute nominations. Her other films include Candy (2006), Oranges and Sunshine (2010) and Dance Academy: The Movie (2017), along with Moulin Rouge! and Hotel Sorrento, and she has worked widely in Australian theater. On television she played Miss Raine in Dance Academy, and she wrote and directed her documentary My Biggest Fan, broadcast in 2008.