Zahra Newman

Zahra Newman is an Australian actress who was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica, and grew up in Kingston before training at the Victorian College of the Arts, where she graduated in 2008. She played Nabalungi in The Book of Mormon and has acted with major theater companies in Melbourne and Sydney. Her roles include Rosalind for Bell Shakespeare in As You Like It, and for Melbourne Theatre Company she has appeared in plays such as Miss Julie, The Cherry Orchard and Clybourne Park, as well as The Mountaintop and Richard III. She also appeared in An Officer and a Gentleman when the musical was first staged in Australia. On screen she has been seen in Wentworth, Rush, Childhood's End and Neighbours. In 2012 she won a Green Room Award for Random, and in 2014 she received Helpmann Award nominations for The Mountaintop and The Government Inspector. In 2024 she played 23 parts in Dracula for Sydney Theatre Co.