Darren Yap is an Australian actor and director based in Sydney, Australia.

He was the third child of a Malaysian-born father and his third-generation Australia-born ethnically Chinese mother.

His father, Robert Yap, was a medical practitioner in the western suburbs of Sydney, his brother is a pharmacist in the inner eastern suburbs of Sydney and his sister is a medical practitioner in Victoria.

[1] He initially applied to do the stage management course at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) but he was not accepted.

When the degree course in acting at University of Western Sydney's Theatre Nepean was first offered he chose to do that.