If you clicked in looking for a net worth figure, here’s the short answer: it doesn’t exist publicly, and this piece isn’t going to invent one. What does exist is a genuinely interesting career — a Brunei-born, Malaysian-Indian performer who spent sixteen-plus years training as a dancer before she ever auditioned for a TV role, and who landed her breakout part the same week she auditioned for five other shows.
Here’s what’s actually known about her.
A childhood spent moving, not memorizing lines
Siva was born in Brunei, and she’s described her upbringing as a “third culture kid” experience — the kind where you don’t belong neatly to one country, so you end up absorbing a bit of everywhere you’ve lived. Her family is Malaysian-Indian, and the constant in her early life wasn’t school plays, it was dance. She started at four years old, and she’s credited her mother — a Latin dancer — as the person who put movement in front of her before anything else did.
By the time most actors are doing their first school production, Siva already had over sixteen years of ballet behind her, plus a growing interest in physical and dance-theatre forms like butoh. That’s not a detail for color — it’s the actual foundation of everything she’s done since, including work most bios skip entirely: she still works as a movement coach and choreographer alongside acting.
Training that reads more like a checklist of “serious about this”
She earned her Bachelor’s in Performing Arts at Monash University in Melbourne — where the acting side of her career started to take shape, layered on top of a body of work that was already physical first. From there she kept going: the Stella Adler Academy of Acting in Los Angeles, further training through AAFTA, and work in Meisner technique.
Most actors specialize in one lane — classical text-based training, or physical/devised theatre, rarely both at this depth. Siva has both. Interview quotes circulating in her press coverage have her describing a pull toward physically demanding roles and an interest in horror or sci-fi work — though no single, dated, primary-source interview is cited here, so treat that as reported rather than independently verified.
The break: six auditions in one week, one of them stuck
Her first time in front of a camera was a short called Cynation: Dancing Devil, where — no surprise — she played a Blade Dancer. From there it was the usual slow build of Melbourne short films and stage work, including a run with Citizen Theatre on the sci-fi piece Mara Körper.
The real turn came with Good Cop/Bad Cop, the Australian drama series with Leighton Meester. Siva has said she auditioned for six different shows the same week she read for this one — and this is the one that landed, giving her the role of Sarika Ray. Around that same stretch, she also booked Ange in Single, Out, playing one of the show’s first lesbian characters, a role she’s talked about as carrying real weight beyond just the job.
She hasn’t stepped back from movement work to focus purely on acting, either — choreography, movement coaching, and some writing and producing credits all continue alongside it.
Everything she’s actually been credited in
| Year | Title | Role | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Cynation: Dancing Devil | Blade Dancer | Short film |
| 2018 | Love Automated | Alicia | Short film |
| 2018 | An Artist, Young | Phoenix | Short film |
| 2020 | Written in the Stars | Sara | Short film |
| 2021 | The Bistro | — | Short film |
| 2021 | Someone Else | Katie | Short film |
| 2021 | Bleed Australian | Tahlia | Short film |
| 2022–2025 | Single, Out | Ange | TV series |
| 2023 | Foe | VIP 3 | Feature film |
| 2023 | Dead Lesbians | Katherine | Short film |
| 2024 | Twin Flame | Kali | Short film |
| 2024 | Dashboard Dogs | Kya | TV series |
| 2025 | Good Cop/Bad Cop | Sarika Ray | TV series |
Her stage work in Melbourne runs deeper than this, but a lot of it isn’t catalogued anywhere public — theatre credits rarely get the documentation film and TV do, especially for independent companies.
What Good Cop/Bad Cop and Single, Out actually gave her
These two shows get named in every search for her, so it’s worth being specific about what each one is, not just that she’s “in” them.
Good Cop/Bad Cop is the Australian drama built around Leighton Meester’s lead role. Siva plays Sarika Ray — not the title character, but a part substantial enough to be the credit that shows up first whenever her name comes up now. Landing it wasn’t a slow climb; by her own account it happened the same week she read for five other projects.
Single, Out is the smaller but, in some ways, more personally significant credit. Siva played Ange, one of the show’s first lesbian characters — and given that she’s spoken openly about identifying as bisexual herself, that casting wasn’t just a job. Not every credit on an actor’s résumé carries the same weight to the actor themselves, and this is one she’s actually talked about.
Awards, recognition, and the 2026 outlook
There’s no public record of Shamita Siva receiving industry awards or nominations. That’s not unusual for an actor at her career stage — recurring and supporting roles on streaming dramas don’t typically generate awards buzz the way lead performances in prestige projects do.
As of the most recent information available, her most current credited work is Good Cop/Bad Cop (2025), alongside her earlier run on Single, Out. No new, independently verifiable project announcements for 2026 turned up in research for this profile. If she’s booked something new since, treat any claim of it as unconfirmed until it shows up on her official credits or a legitimate entertainment outlet reports it directly.
What she’s actually said about her own life
Siva has spoken about identifying as bisexual, and it’s part of why playing Ange meant something to her personally. Past that, she hasn’t gone into her personal life much — no confirmed relationship, no public details about a partner or family. If she hasn’t said it, it’s not in here.
The net worth question — answered once, honestly
There isn’t a verified figure, and there’s a reason for that: actors working in supporting and recurring roles on Australian TV, plus short films and stage work, generally aren’t the subject of financial reporting at all. It’s a real career, just not the kind that gets a Celebrity Net Worth page with an actual source behind it.
If you find a specific dollar figure attached to her name somewhere, be skeptical — a lot of “net worth” content for lesser-known performers is copy-paste template work, the same three paragraphs with a name swapped in.
Quick reference
- Name: Shamita Siva (credited in some places as Shamita Sivabalan)
- Born: Brunei
- Heritage: Malaysian-Indian
- Education: BA, Performing Arts, Monash University
- Further training: Stella Adler Academy of Acting, AAFTA, Meisner technique
- Known for: Sarika Ray in Good Cop/Bad Cop (2025), Ange in Single, Out (2022–2025)
- Background: 16+ years of dance training starting at age 4
- Net worth: No verified figure exists (see above)
A few things people ask, answered plainly
What’s she best known for?
Sarika Ray in Good Cop/Bad Cop and Ange in Single, Out — both Australian series, both landed around the same time.
Where’s she from?
Born in Brunei, Malaysian-Indian heritage, career mostly built in Australia.
Did she train formally, or is she self-taught?
Formally, and extensively — Monash for her degree, then Stella Adler and AAFTA on top of that.
Is dance actually part of her career, or just a fun fact?
It’s the foundation — sixteen-plus years of ballet before acting entered the picture, and she still works as a choreographer and movement coach today.
Has she won any awards? Is she in a relationship? How old or tall is she?
None of this is publicly disclosed. Any page giving you exact numbers here is guessing.
What’s her nationality?
Malaysian, born in Brunei, working out of Australia.
Between the training, the dance background, and the run of roles she’s landed since 2018, this reads like an actor still early in a longer arc — not someone whose story is finished being written. Worth keeping an eye on, especially if that horror or sci-fi role she’s mentioned wanting ever lands.
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Shahzad is the founder and lead writer at WorthRada. He writes about celebrity net worth, biographies, careers, income, and success stories, with a focus on providing clear, well-researched, and reliable information.
