Mia Morrissey was born on the Northern Beaches of Sydney to agent and producer parents. Educated at the International Grammar School, her love of the arts and language was nurtured from a young age with lessons in Jazz, contemporary and classical singing, Piano, Guitar, Bass Guitar, and learning to fluently speak French, Spanish and Maltese through family. Being no stranger to the entertainment industry, Mia Morrissey started working as an actor at the age of sixteen when she starred in the critically acclaimed short film Bat Eyes (by Killing Ground director Damien Power) which featured at Venice Film Festival. Shortly after, she landed a lead role in channels 7's children's musical series In Your Dreams, which shot in Australia and Germany for 2 seasons. In between seasons, Mia made her theatre debut in The Voices Project:Out Of Place with ATYP. Also and accomplished singer and songwriter, Mia co-wrote and performed two songs for In Your Dreams and was on season three of The Voice, being picked by Ricky Martin to be on his team. Since then, Mia was featured on channel 7's Molly and studied in New York for a summer at The Atlantic Acting School before moving to Perth to study acting full time at WAAPA for 3 years. Whilst at WAAPA some of Mia's titular roles included Titania/Hippolyta in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Stella in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. She also wrote and performed two original songs in the self devised piece Momentum directed and co-created by The Laramie Project's, Andy Paris. Since graduation WAAPA in 2018 she has appeared in ABC's, Harrow and Qui Nguyen's award winging play Alice in Slasherland at the Old Fitz.