Bio
Elena Mandalis is an Australian actress and acting coach best known for her television roles as Sarah Tomic in Raw FM (1997-1998), as Jett in Thunderstone (1999) and as Anna Vargas in Rush, in 2011.
Elena came to prominence in 1994 after winning an AFI award for her performance in the Ana Kokkinos film Only the Brave. From this success Elena went on to act in many feature films and television series including Offspring, Rush, Tangle, Head On, Secret Life of Us, Last Man Standing, MDA and Thunderstone.
Elena has also been involved with the teaching and training of film makers at the VCA School of film and Television as well as constructing and teaching Intensive Acting for the Camera courses to both teenagers and adults.
She is currently the head teacher at Greentree Acting School, which teaches children to act.