Miranda Tapsell
Miranda Tapsell was born in Darwin, Australia. She is a First Nations woman of the Larrakia tribe. Tapsell is best known for her role in The Sapphires – the story of four Indigenous Australian women who travelled to Vietnam in the sixties to perform for United States troops – and her role in the drama series Love Child, which deals with the subject of historical forced adoptions of Indigenous Australian children. In 2015 Tapsell won a Logie award for her performance in Love Child, and, in her acceptance speech, called for more people of colour to appear on television.