Tasma Walton
Tasma Walton is a proud Boonwurrung woman from the saltwater country of Melbourne and surrounding coastlines. As an award-winning actor, she has garnered recognition for her role of Mary Swan in the highly regarded Mystery Road television and film franchise. She has appeared in numerous other TV productions, including The Twelve, Rake, Cleverman, Deadloch and The Secret Life of Us; for her role of Dash McKinley in Blue Heelers she received a Best New Talent Logie Award.
Tasma’s films include Mystery Road, Sweet As, How to Please a Woman, Kid Snow and Fistful of Flies, for which she won the Sochi Film Festival Award for Best Actress. Her work across both film and television has seen her nominated for multiple AACTA Awards.
Tasma’s first novel, Heartless, was nominated for an ABIA Award for General Fiction, and the first book in her children’s series Nerra: Deep Time Traveller was longlisted for the DANZ Children's Book Award. Her latest novel is I Am Nannertgarrook.