Luca Sardelis is a Greek and Cypriot Australian actor, emerging writer, and filmmaker with a background in award-winning television and a growing presence in Australian independent cinema.
She is best known for her lead roles in The Hunting (SBS), Nowhere Boys (ABC), Diabolic (2025), and Deadlock (ABC), and has also appeared in A Perfect Pairing (2024), The Tourist (HBO Max), and season three of RFDS (Channel 7).
Her screen work has featured in BAFTA- and Academy Award-qualifying festivals, including SXSW for I’m The Most Racist Person I Know and Flickerfest for Spite and Cordelia, and Daughter of the Sea. She continues to expand her practice with upcoming roles in independent features River, Love, Tea and Epiphany, Ruby Ruby, and Haven’t You Heard? Everyone Hates Me.
Sardelis undertook Shakespearean and Jacobean theatre training at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA). Here, she performed the roles of Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Isabella in The White Devil and also acquired basic combat skills with an emphasis on rapier and dagger.
Behind the screen, Sardelis is in post production, producing the Carclew and Mercury supported film, Beasties. In 2024, Sardelis wrote The Fish Rots from the Head, a ten-minute monologue commissioned for CRAM Collective’s production Edges. 2026, has seen Sardelis receive production funding from The Mercury to bring this project to fruition. In 2023, she was awarded her first grant from Carclew to write and direct her debut short film Nothing Gold Can Stay in collaboration with We Made A Thing Productions. In 2024, she also wrote, produced, and performed in the video art installation Aurora for the Household Gallery.