Ursula Yovich

The Aboriginal Australian actress and singer Ursula Yovich has worked across stage, film and television. Born in Darwin in 1977, she started singing as a child, took formal lessons from the age of 13 and joined a youth theater group before she went to Perth and studied at the Aboriginal Centre for the Performing Arts, graduating in 1996. Her stage credits number more than fifty productions, among them Capricornia, The Sapphires, Jerry Springer the Opera and Pecan Summer, Australia's first Aboriginal opera. With Alana Valentine she co-wrote Barbara and the Camp Dogs, a rock musical in which she also performed, and she wrote the cabaret Magpie Blues and The Man with the Iron Neck. Her films include Goldstone (2016) and Top End Wedding (2019), and on television she has appeared in Redfern Now, Mystery Road and Preppers. She also writes for and voices characters in the animated series Little J & Big Cuz.