Amali Golden

Amali Golden (née Ward) is an Australian singer-songwriter and actress. She came to prominence as a contestant on the second season of Australian Idol when she was 16 years old. She made it to the top 12, before being eliminated in tenth place. Post-Idol, she decided against signing with a record label and instead finished school. Golden worked as a session vocalist and keyboard player, and released her self-produced EP Amali Ward in 2007. This was followed by her debut album Back In Time in 2013, which was recorded in Los Angeles. That same year, Golden made her acting debut in the soap opera Neighbours. In 2014, she appeared on the sixth season of The X Factor Australia and made it to the final 24. She then undertook a year long course at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA).

In 2017, Golden appeared in episodes of Home and Away and The Other Guy, and the feature film Thor: Ragnarok. Golden also released the single "Elephant (Talk About It)" after the track was created for her role as Amy in The Other Guy. From 2019 until 2020, Golden played Young Farida in the drama series Bloom. She also launched new music under the name GOLDS and her debut EP Imprints was released in November 2019. The following year, she appeared in the feature films Love and Monsters and Black Water: Abyss. She also played real life medic Priya Thalayasingam in Bali 2002 and returned to Home and Away as Mercedes Da Silva in 2023. She joined the supporting cast of crime drama Black Snow in 2025.