Persia Blue

{{short description|Australian actress}}

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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 Home and Away, she was successfully cast as the character of Zoe Nash.{{cite web|title=Home and Away: Back to the bay Zoe Nash (2009) Persia Blue Toll Episode 4838 |url=http://www.backtothebay.net/characters/nash_zoe.shtml|website=backtothebay.net|accessdate=18 January 2015}} She also made a guest appearance on ABC’s Dance Academy series 2.{{cite web|last1=Dance Academy ep. 2.22. Win or Lose|title=Australian Television Information Archive|url=http://www.australiantelevision.net/dance-academy/series2a.html|accessdate=17 April 2012}} Blue was cast as the character of Brandine in the second season of SBS’s television comedy Housos, 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.{{cite web|last1=FBI 945FM|title=FBI Radio Review|work=FBi Radio |url=http://fbiradio.com/review-graceland-asleep-on-the-wind/|accessdate=18 June 2013|date=18 June 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.australianstage.com.au/201306146371/reviews/sydney/graceland-and-asleep-on-the-wind-%7C-operating-theatre.html|title=Graceland and Asleep on the Wind - Operating Theatre|publisher=australianstage.com.au}} Other theatre credits include David Williamson’s The Jack Manning Trilogy : Charitable Intent, for Ensemble Theatre.{{cite web|url=http://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/107334|title=AusStage|publisher=ausstage.edu.au}}

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.

{{Cite web|url=https://www.americanaustralian.org/scholarships/arts-fund/art-fund-past-scholars/|title = Art Fund Past Scholars}}