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| She served on the Women's Committee of MEAA (formerly Actors Equity) being especially interested in the portrayal of and opportunities for women in the entertainment industry. After her celebrated performance of 'Molly Bloom' at La Mama, Maggie, like so many other older women in the profession, was faced with a reduction in work opportunities and then embarked on a different career path. She has written and spoken extensively on the subjects of Body Image and Self-Acceptance, and Older Women and the Media. Women of Substance (Allen & Unwin) and Sizeable Reflections (Women's Press UK) both contain her written contributions. She has also written for New Woman magazine, the Melbourne Age and many other journals. As well as initiating and presenting at many seminars, including a NSW Government Summit on Body Image, (on which she also wrote the report Caring for Health ) and Melbourne University’s Key Centre for Women’s Health on Older Women and the Media. She has travelled extensively in Country areas giving workshops and presentations on Ageing, Body Image and Self Acceptance. She was on the Media Committee for Seniors Year and has contributed to seminars and workshops with the Council on the Ageing. She is currently a member of the Victorian Government Task Force looking at the portrayal of and oppotunities for older people in the Entertainment Industry. An adopted person, she was Public Relations Officer for Jigsaw Victoria, the organisation which successfully campaigned for retrospective changes to adoption laws in Victoria, Australia. She has devised a varied program of poetry and prose readings which she has presented at many venues and festivals in Australia, as well as conducting popular workshops for writers on reading their own work in public. |
| In January 2001 she returned to the stage, appearing in two successful seasons of 'Love Letters' with Alan Hopgood, her former TV husband in 'Bellbird'. Alan and Maggie have subsequently developed two plays on the theme of living with diabetes. Following the success of her appearance in 'Neighbours', she appeared as the Empress of China in the panto 'Aladdin' in York, England in 2002, and the following year as The Fairy Godmother in 'Cinderella' in Torquay. She opened the acclaimed Daphne du Maurier Festival in Fowey, England, in 2003. In 2005 she appeared in the successful season of Rebecca Lister’s play 'If I Should Die Before I Wake' at Chapel off Chapel. A 'splendid speaker', she gave the final address for 500 leading Melbourne women at the final Mary Owen Dinner at Prahran Town Hall in May 2005. Since taking up painting some years ago, Maggie has exhibited her pastel works in many art shows, winning a Highly Commended award in her very first exhibition with Bass Coast Artists Society. She studied pastels with a number of teachers including Pat Shannon and Janet Matthews, and has specialized in portraits and animal studies, especially studies of the big cats with whom she is desperately in love! Maggie has received a number of commissions for her portraits and landscapes. She is inspired by the work of American artist Wolf Kahn, whose breathtaking use of colour in his landscapes is a constant source of wonder. She is presently working on developing her own style of landscape painting, and as of 2007 has chosen to retire from the acting profession to concentrate on her love of painting. <Homepage |
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| ABOUT MAGGIE Maggie Millar is an Honours graduate of RADA in London, having won a scholarship to study there, and in her graduation year she won the 'Gertrude Lawrence Award for Best Performance'. Well known in Australia and around the world for her numerous TV roles ('Bellbird', 'The Sullivans', 'All the Way', 'Prisoner' and most recently as Rosie Hoyland in 'Neighbours'). She has won several acting awards, including a Best Actress Logie; has performed on stage with many theatre companies including the Old Vic Company (with Vivien Leigh Directed by Sir Robert Helpmann), Elizabethan Theatre Trust, Melbourne Theatre Company, J C Williamson, Playbox, La Mama; and has appeared in the films 'Phar Lap', 'Bushfire Moon', 'The Bit Part' and 'Pieta'; and has been heard on many ABC radio programs. |
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