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Top end girl / Miranda Tapsell.

Top end girl / Miranda Tapsell.
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TF1290960 B TAP
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Record Number 20285
ISBN 9780733642432 (paperback)
Location B TAP
Author Tapsell, Miranda (author.).
Title Top end girl / Miranda Tapsell.
Published Sydney, N.S.W. : Hachette Australia, 2020.
©2020.
Collation 305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, colour portraits ; 24 cm.
Content types text
still image
Carrier type volume
Contents Note If you leave me now... You'll miss it all -- Not a sugar plum -- No plan B -- Into the fire -- Shine bright ligh a... Sapphire -- Making things change -- Top End Wedding -- You've got (a) tweet -- Pan Gyfarfu Miranda A Gwilym (not it's not a typo, it's Welsh) -- The proposal... not the Sandra Bullock version -- Respecting 65,000 years -- Thanks, Ms Jackson -- Going home -- It's a wrap -- No rest for the wicked -- Going to get married -- Lightning does strike twice -- Where dreams are made... -- Akways a Top End girl -- P.S.
Summary Note Ever since I was thirteen years old, all I wanted to do was perform. It was an unusual dream for a kid from the Northern Territory to have ... what I wanted for my life was a world away from what people knew and loved about the Top End . Even though I've moved south to become an actor, the Territory has never left me. It's the place I go to when I want to feel whole again. From Kakadu to Cannes, Miranda Tapsell is one of Australia's favourite actors. A proud Larrikia woman, she built a stellar career on stage, and shot to fame in The Sapphires and then in Love Child and Doctor, Doctor. Growing up, Miranda often looked for faces like hers on our screens. There weren't many. And too often there was a negative narrative around Indigenous lives, and Aboriginal women especially. Now an award-winning actor, she decided to change things herself. Combining her love of romantic comedies with her love of Darwin, the Tiwi Islands and the Top End, Miranda wrote, produced and stared in the box office hit Top End Wedding. But who the hell co-writes, produces and acts in a film about a wedding in the same year they're having their own? Miranda Tapsell does! In this engaging and thought-provoking memoir, TOP END GIRL, Miranda shares the path she took to create a moving film about reconnection to family and culture at the same time as she was planning her own wedding. And, like all good story-tellers, she holds a mirror up to the society we live in to show the prejudice that too often surfaces. Miranda knows that the key to change is to understand and through the power of storytelling she is changing attitudes and expectations to unite us all.
“A deadly memoir about being bold, black and brave in work, life and love. … Miranda Tapsell was born in Darwin and her people are the Larrakia. … She wrote, produced and starred in the box office hit Top end wedding [DVD available for loan from library] and has her own podcast on BuzzFeed, Pretty for an Aboriginal, with Nakkiah Lui, which rocks the traditional perceptions of Indigenous Australia and challenges rigid mindsets of what women of colour can and cannot do. Top end girl is her literary debut.” – Publisher.
Personal Name Tapsell, Miranda
Subject Biography: general
Motion picture actors and actresses -- Australia -- Biography
Aboriginal Australians -- Social conditions
Australian
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