Persia Blue (born Persia Blue Victoria Toll) is an Australian actress of both screen and stage. Blue graduated in performing arts from Ensemble Studios, Australia. Blue also studied Practical Aesthetics (PA) at Atlantic Acting School, New York City. After completing drama school her first audition was for ''

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'', she was successfully cast as the character of Zoe Nash. She also made a guest appearance on ABC’s ''

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'' series 2. Blue was cast as the character of Brandine in the second season of SBS’s television comedy ''

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'', which won the 2014 Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Light Entertainment Program. Blue was a member of the actors' company for the Hayes Gordon Repertory Theatre Company. She travelled NSW, Australia performing Shakespeare for the Theatre In Education (T.I.E) Tour. Blue has played leading roles in Sydney independent theatre including Operating Theatre's production of ''Graceland and Asleep on the Wind'' by Ellen Byron. Other theatre credits include

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’s ''The Jack Manning Trilogy : Charitable Intent'', for

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. Persia Blue won the Dame Joan Sutherland Fund's 2016 Cultural Exchange Grant for Emerging Australian Artists in the field of theatre. The DJSF Grant was for artistic development in New York.

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