Tuuli Narkle

Tuuli Narkle is an Australian actress. For her performance in Mystery Road: Origin she won the 2022 AACTA Award for Best Lead Actress in a Television Drama. She plays AFP Liaison Officer Constable Evie Cooper in the Network 10/Paramount+ series NCIS: Sydney.

Early life
Narkle was born in Western Australia and is of First Nations and Finnish descent, with familial ties to the York and Goldfields regions. She has one sibling, a sister.

She was accepted into the John Curtin College of the Arts and trained as a dancer at the Charlesworth Ballet Institute. She graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art in 2018.

Career
Narkle began her career on stage with an appearance as Ruby in Stolen and in 2019 appeared in Winyanboga Yurringa and in Nakkiah Lui's Black Is The New White. In 2021 Narkle played the part of Evonne Goolagong Cawley in the stage show Sunshine Super Girl and in 2022 played Helen in Emme Hoy's adaptation of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.

Narkle played a lead role in the ABC TV series All My Friends are Racist in 2021. and then played a younger version of Tasma Walton's character Mary Swan in Mystery Road: Origin, a prequel season of Mystery Road. 2023 saw her appear in Bad Behaviour. Narkle plays AFP Liaison Officer Constable Evie Cooper in the Network 10/Paramount+ series NCIS: Sydney.

Personal life
She stated that as a highschooler she was obsessed with the relationship between NCIS characters Gibbs and DiNozzo.