Ursula Yovich

An award-winning actor, playwright, singer, songwriter, and storyteller, Ursula Yovich received an AACTA nomination in 2019 for Best Supporting Actor for her role in the feature film Top End Wedding and in 2020 won the Film Critic’s Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor for the same role. In 2022, Ursula appeared in Netflix’s Irreverent and Foxtel’s The Twelve. Other film highlights include Baz Luhrmann’s Australia, Goldstone, and Jindabyne. Television credits include: The Code, Devil’s Dust, Redfern Now, The Gods of Wheat Street, Rake, and Wanted. Ursula also features as the voice of ‘Levi’ in the NITV/SBS children’s animated TV series, Little J & Big Cuz, on which she is also a writer.

In 2019, Ursula received a Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Musical for her lead performance in Barbara and the Camp Dogs (she was also the co-writer) and in 2015 she was awarded the prestigious Sidney Myer Performing Arts Individual Award as well as the Balnaves Foundation’s Indigenous Playwright’s Award. She previously won the Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Play in 2007 for her performance in Capricornia. Ursula has been performing in her solo cabaret show, An Evening with Ursula Yovich, which debuted at Ensemble Theatre and was shown at The Sydney Festival.

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