Biography

Sheree da Costa is an actor/dancer with credits in film, TV and music theatre. She is an ex-Principal dancer with The Australian Ballet and former artist with Sydney Dance Co. Sheree joined the cast for Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes, Dir: Wes Ball, and also appears in The Deb, a feature film directed and produced by Rebel Wilson. Sheree made a guest appearance in hit Australian series Bump, Season 5 Episode 7, released on Stan TV, January 2025. Of special note is Dancing With My Mother in the role of The Dancer (2022) Dir: Richard de Carvalho, Prod: Carol Jovicic for Lunacraft Productions, Executive Prod: Sheree da Costa. Dancing With My Mother is a self-devised semi-biographical short film tribute to her late son Joseph, which successfully toured the film festival circuit in 2023 and 2024, gaining winner and selection laurels, including a win for Best Actress in an Indie Film at the Cannes World Film Festival and Best Actress at the Busan New Wave Short Film Festival.

Sheree is writing an in-depth and intimate book version of Dancing With My Mother. This will be a story of love, hope, talent, potential, humour and family, whilst also highlighting the subjects of addiction, depression, suicide and the nightmare of HPPD, or Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder. Most importantly, Dancing With My Mother showcases the eternal bond between mother and son, a bond that not even death can destroy.

- IMDb mini biography by: Sheree da Costa