Professional stage, TV, film actor and theatre director

Olga Tamara actor

Professional stage, TV, film actor and theatre director

Olga Tamara actor

- Meryl Streep -

QUOTE

"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."

About Olga

Olga Tamara entered the world of acting after she resigned as a dancer from the Australian Ballet Company in 1976. Having travelled the world and dancing with the likes of Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, she resigned to concentrate on her love of acting. Olga’s first role in Glenview High won her an ABC TV Penguin award for “Best New Talent” in 1978.

She continued to appear in numerous television series carving out a successful acting career in regular roles in long running television series Cop Shop and Holiday Island and guest roles in Chopper Squad, Young Doctors and many more. Olga also appeared in lead roles in Wild Ass Of A Man alongside Max Gilles and the stage Musical Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,The Shifting Heart,Waiting for Rupert Murdock and Morning Sacrifice to name a few.

In the 80's she took acting and voice lessons at Hays Gordon, The Ensemble and continues to work on her craft doing scene workshops with Kim Farrant as well as numerous other workshops and short course. In the past two years Olga has landed 4 lead roles in short films and recently won Best Production as Director of the short play "Sweethearts" in the 2021 S+S short play festival.
Olga is looking forward to performing in the play Unreasonable Situation and Rosa and Leo in September 2022 and had been invited as Guest Artist to perform with the Australian Balelt Company as Nurse in Romeo and Juliet.