While selling phones, Pang began his career incidentally after walking into a casting agency who were looking for a performer to do a Chinese accent for a voice over, Pang booked the role dubbing as Jackie Chan's brother in New Police Story 4.[8] This started his acting career.

Shortly afterwards he began studying at TAFTA in Melbourne, and completed the Full Time Program.

Deniz Akdeniz is an Australian of Turkish descent. His family are from Izmir, Turkey.

He is best known for playing the iconic Disney Prince "Aladdin" in the ABC series 'Once Upon A Time' with Jennifer Morrison, Josh Dallas and Robert Carlyle.

His film credits include 'The Water Diviner' directed by Russell Crowe along with 'I, Frankenstein' opposite Aaron Eckhart. Akdeniz had a breakout performance in the Australian box office success 'Tomorrow, When the War Began' directed by Stuart Beattie.

He has also starred in hit series such as CW's 'Jane the Virgin' and CBS's 'Code Black'.

Deniz completed the Full Time Program at TAFTA in Melbourne.

Ella Newton is best known for her role as the Lead ‘Fern Harrow’ in the TV Series Harrow.

Ella’s other Screen Credits include: Seachange, Neighbours, Playing for Keeps and Newton’s Law.

Ella is a graduate of our Full Time 22 Week Program in Melbourne, and has completed many of our Short Courses.

Saskia teaches TAFTA's Teen classes in Sydney, her acting credits include Neighbours, City Homicide, A Few Less Men.

She is based in both America and Australia working as an actress, entrepreneur and acting coach, and has a thorough understanding of screen acting and techniques required to have a successful career in the film business.

As one of the Australian Women's Weekly - Women of The Future winners in 2017, Saskia is an excellent role model to young actors.

Teressa Liane debuted on television in 2011 as Rhiannon Bates in Neighbours.

She went on to star as siphoner and vampire hybrid "Mary Louise" on "The Vampire Diaries" of The CW; "Angelica" on Into the Badlands and Adrianne in the short film "Rorrim".

In 2019 Liane starred as Agrippina the Younger, Caligula’s younger sister in Series 3 “Caligula: The Mad Emperor” of the Netflix documentary drama Roman Empire (TV series).

Lauren attended primary school in Adelaide before settling with her family in Melbourne, her career truly skyrocketed after snaring a supporting role in The Conjuring 2.

She completed various Screen Acting Workshops and Courses at TAFTA

Her recent roles include:

Swimming for Gold

The Legend of the Five

The Arctic Apocalypse

American Psychos

Best known for her role as Xanthe Canning on Neighbours, she has been on Ramsay St since 2016, finishing her run on the show in 2019. She now has her sights set on Hollywood!

Lily completed our Film & TV Teens Course in Queensland!

Born in Melbourne, James Frecheville found a particular interest in drama and the arts at a young age and continued to excel in this field throughout his schooling life. James was involved with various youth theatre groups (mostly amateur theatre, including school productions) before having his first on set experience as an extra on the Australian television series City Homicide. 

After this experience, James completed the TAFTA 22 Week Full Time Program.

Born in Albany, Western Australia, Ethan Panizza was pursuing AFL Football at a professional level when he injured his hamstring, leaving him unable to play for eight weeks. During this time, Panizza took an acting course with John Orcsik, who singled out Panizza’s performance in the course, which resulted in him changing his career aspirations.

In 2014, he signed up to a twenty-week course at The Australian Film & Television Academy (TAFTA) in Sydney. Panizza had to decline to participate in the finals for Claremont Tigers in the WA Football League and take on the TAFTA course. Panizza was also selected for further acting training in Los Angeles

Osamah Sami is an award-winning actor, writer, poet, and comedian, born in war-torn Iran to Iraqi parents.

Osamah co-wrote and starred in the smash-hit Aussie film Ali's Wedding. His screenplay earned him an AACTA award, an Australian Writers Guild Award, an Australian Film Critics Association Award, and a Film Critics Circle of Australia Award for Best Screenplay. He also received AACTA Award, FCCA Award and AFCA Award nominations for Best Lead Actor.

Osamah completed our Teens program and Full Time Program at TAFTA