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). In 2021 she received a Casting Guild of Australia Rising Star award.

Her indie screen work has featured in BAFTA- and Academy Award-qualifying festivals, including SXSW for I’m The Most Racist Person I Know, Cannes for feature film, River and Flickerfest for Spite and Cordelia, Daughter of the Sea. She continues to expand her practice with upcoming roles in independent features 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 embodied many classic roles including Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Isabella in The White Devil. She also acquired basic combat skills with an emphasis on rapier and dagger training.

Behind the screen, Sardelis is currently producing the short film, Beasties. In 2024 she wrote The Fish Rots from the Head, for CRAM Collective’s production Edges and has since adapted it for screen; this is currently in post production. In 2023, she was awarded her first grant to write and direct her debut short film Nothing Gold Can Stay. She also wrote, produced, and performed in the video art installation Aurora for the Household Gallery.