Michela Carattini is an award-winning, Latinx Australian actor and filmmaker, currently starring in the NETFLIX hit, CARMEN & BOLUDE, her debut feature as writer/director/producer, also nominated Best Independent Film at the 2026 AACTAs. Her numerous other screen and stage credits include the features RISEN, TRAUMWELT, BIRTHDAY ADJUSTMENT DISORDER and 54 DAYS, the TV series MALONEY and BITE CLUB, and starring roles in stage productions ANGELS IN AMERICA, GOODBYE CHARLIE, ALICE IN WONDERLAND THE ROCK MUSICAL, MACBETH, MARIA STUART and many more. She has been nominated for Best Actress and one of Best Ensemble Cast over 20 times in her career, winning ‘Most Outstanding Body of Work’ at Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema in Los Angeles in 2016. Michela is also one of the world's foremost intimacy coordinators, accredited by SAG-AFTRA as head trainer at Key Intimate Scenes, hired as the international consultant of the Austrian Film Institute in Vienna for their National Intimacy Standards and for the Swiss National Intimacy Guidelines, and recently featured in the NEW YORKER MAGAZINE as well as several international publications for her groundbreaking work in intimacy coordination.