Miah Grace Madden is an Australian actress and presenter.

Early life and education

Miah Grace Madden is from Rose Bay, a suburb east of

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. She is the daughter of Lee Madden, who was a

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man with some Bundjalung heritage, and Belinda Kirkpatrick. Her father died in a car accident in 2003 when Miah was two and her mother was pregnant with her sister Ruby. She is the younger half-sister of

Madeleine Madden Madeleine Madden (born 29 January 1997) is an Australian actress. She is best known for playing Egwene al'Vere in the Amazon Prime series ''The Wheel of Time''. Early life Madden grew up around Redfern, a Sydney inner city suburb, and attended ...

. She attended

St Catherine's School, Waverley St Catherine's School (commonly referred to as ''St Cath's'') is a private Anglican Junior and Senior day and boarding school, located in Waverley, an eastern suburb of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Established in 1856 as a school for t ...

Career

Madden began her career playing a younger version of

Jessica Mauboy Jessica Hilda Mauboy (born 4 August 1989) is an Australian singer, songwriter and actress. Born and raised in Darwin, Northern Territory, she rose to fame in 2006 on the fourth season of ''Australian Idol'', where she was runner-up and subseq ...

's character in the 2012 film '' The Sapphires''. She reprised a young Mauboy again in her " Never Be the Same" music video. She landed her first major television role as Athena Freeburn in the ABC TV drama ''

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''. Madden played April Tucker in the 2017 film ''

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''. She appeared in the 2018

NITV National Indigenous Television (NITV) is an Australian free-to-air television channel that broadcasts programming produced and presented largely by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It includes the half-hourly nightly ''NITV News'' ...

series '' Little J & Big Cuz''. In 2019 and 2020, Madden starred in two children's science fiction series: the

ABC Me ABC Me (stylised as ABC ME) is an Australian English language children's free-to-air television channel owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It was officially launched by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on 4 December 2009 as ABC3. Hist ...

series '' The Unlisted'' as Kymara and the

9Go! 9Go! is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel, which was launched by the Nine Network on 9 August 2009, replacing Nine Guide. It is a youthful channel that offers a mix of comedy, reality, general entertainment, movies, anim ...

series '' The Gamers 2037'' as Kite. She hosted the third season of the

Nickelodeon Australia Nickelodeon is an Australian children's pay television channel operated by a joint venture of Foxtel Networks and Paramount Networks UK & Australia. Being a version of the namesake television channel in the United States, the channel broadcas ...

series ''Crash the Bash'' and had a recurring role in the ABC Me comedy-drama '' Mustangs FC''. As of 2021, Madden stars as Maddie in the

10 Shake 10 Shake is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel owned by Network 10. It launched on 27 September 2020 at 6am. The channel includes a mix of shows for people aged forty and under. It broadcasts programming for children fro ...

teen series ''

Dive Club ''Dive Club'' is an Australian teen drama television show, which premiered on 10 Shake from 29 May 2021 as a movie-length special. The series was distributed worldwide on Netflix on 3 September 2021. It follows a feisty group of teen divers who ...

'' and has joined the cast of the Nickelodeon fantasy ''

The Bureau of Magical Things ''The Bureau of Magical Things'' is an Australian drama television series created by Jonathan M. Shiff and developed by Jonathan M. Shiff and Mark Shirrefs that premiered in Australia on Eleven on 8 July 2018, and aired through 2 November 201 ...

'' as Tayla Devlin for its second season.

Filmography

Film

Television

Music videos

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Madden, Miah 2001 births Living people 21st-century Australian actresses Actresses from Sydney Australian child actresses Indigenous Australian actresses People from the Eastern Suburbs (Sydney)