1. Miranda Tapsell was born on 11 December 1987 and is a Larrakia Aboriginal Australian actress of both stage and screen, best known for her role as Cynthia in the Wayne Blair film The Sapphires and her 2015 performance as Martha Tennant in the Nine Network drama series Love Child.
In 2004, when she was 16, Miranda Tapsell won the Bell Shakespeare Company regional performance scholarship.
Miranda Tapsell sang as a student with the Jabiru Area School Choir.
Miranda Tapsell has been active both on stage and screen, starting with her 2008 performance in Dallas Winmar's play Yibiyung at the Belvoir Theatre, where she had the title role.
Miranda Tapsell topped the year off with her appearance as Teneka in the second episode of the ABC's Redfern Now.
Back in the theatre in 2013, Miranda Tapsell played a dual role in Andrew Bovell's The Secret River at the Sydney Theatre, a performance which earned her a nomination for the Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play.
In 2014 Miranda Tapsell took on the role of Elizabeth, a young Indigenous woman, for a short film called Vote Yes which looked at issues around the 1967 referendum on including Aboriginal peoples in the census.
Miranda Tapsell appeared in four episodes of the ABC sketch programme Black Comedy.
Also in 2014 Miranda Tapsell became a member of the cast of the Channel 9 drama series Love Child, set in the 1960s.
Miranda Tapsell's role is as an unmarried pregnant Indigenous woman, Martha Tennant, who ends up in a ward with several other unwed women in a fictitious hospital in Sydney's King's Cross at a time when it was taboo to be pregnant and not married.
Miranda Tapsell's performance was extremely well received, garnering two Logies in May 2015, Best New Talent and the Graham Kennedy Award For Most Outstanding Newcomer.
In 2017,2018 and again in 2019 Miranda Tapsell starred as Charlotte Gibson in the Sydney Theatre Company production from playwright Nakkiah Lui, Black is the New White.
Miranda Tapsell's role is a lawyer with a brilliant career who brings her non-Indigenous, unemployed experimental composer fiance home to meet her family at Christmas.
Miranda Tapsell wrote a contribution entitled "Nobody Puts Baby Spice in a Corner" for the 2018 biographical anthology Growing Up Aboriginal In Australia, edited by Anita Heiss and published by Black Inc.
In 2024, Miranda Tapsell was named to reprise the role of Lauren Ford for the television series Top End Bub, which is a spin off from the movie Top End Wedding.
Miranda Tapsell is a Larrakia woman and lives in Melbourne with her husband, James Colley.