Bella MacDiarmid

Bella is an actor, known for The Screaming Silent (2020), the award winning short film Manos Arribas (awarded Best Comedy at #TOFF, Grand Jury Prize at IFF) and Armadillo. She has performed in many theatre productions including performing in New York in one of seven planet plays, Earth: A Play About People. In this she worked in collaboration with scientists, actors, dancers and musicians to devise a personal exploration and narrative about overpopulation. She toured in-school productions of MacBeth, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Nights Dream and Julius Ceasar around NSW, Victoria and South Australia. In Sydney she performed in outdoor summer seasons of MacBeth and Taming of the Shrew.

Bella has also acted in television commercials and radio plays.

She was educated at the National Academy of Dramatic Art (NIDA) from 2009 - 2011 where she received the Marcia McCallum scholarship and the Tim Freedman student bursary.