Ursula Yovich


Ursula Yovich is an Australian actress and singer.

Career

She has appeared in more than 20 theatre and musical theatre productions, including Capricornia, Mother Courage and her Children, The Sapphires, Natural Life, Nailed, The Sunshine Club, Jerry Springer the Opera, Nathaniel Storm, and The Adventures of Snugglepot & Cuddlepie and Little Ragged Blossom and in the films Jindabyne, Australia and Goldstone. She was the subject of an episode of the SBS documentary series Blaktrax.

Personal life

Grew up in Darwin, Northern Territory Australia. Her father, Slobodan Jovic, was a Serbian immigrant who anglicised his name to Stan Yovich. Her mother from North West Arnhemland near the Blythe River. The closest community being Maningrida. She is married to Stewart O'Connell, a lawyer. The couple has one daughter.

Awards and nominations

In 2019 Ursula Yovich has recently been nominated for the Nick Enright Prize for Playwrighting for her original rock musical comedy, Barbara and the Camp Dogs, co-written with playwright Alana Valentine. The play had its premier performance at Belvoir St. Theatre in Sydney in 2017, and in the 2017 Sydney Theatre Awards, Yovich was nominated for Best New Australian Work, Best Original score and Best Female Actor. The work also received a Music Theatre AWGIE nomination.
In 2016 Ursula was awarded the Sidney Myer individual award as a recognition of her outstanding body of work in theatre. She also received the Balnaves Foundations Indigenous playwrights award later in the same year.
Yovich has won three Helpmann Awards, for Best Female Actor in a Play in 2007 for her performance in Capricornia and for Best Female Actor in a Musical and Best Original Score in 2019 for Barbara and the Camp Dogs. She has also been nominated multiple times for lead and supporting roles in plays and musicals, and as Best Cabaret Performer in 2010 for Magpie Blues.

Filmography

Film

Television

Discography