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| After her celebrated performance as Molly Bloom at La Mama, Maggie, like many older women in the industry, 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 older people in the media and entertainment industries. |
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| Maggie Millar is an honours graduate of RADA 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 for her numerous TV roles (Bellbird, The Sullivans, All the Way, Prisoner and most recently Rev. Rosie Hoyland in Neighbours), she has won several acting awards, including a Best Actress Logie; has performed onstage 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; has appeared in the films Phar Lap, Bushfire Moon, The Bit Part and Pieta; and has been heard on many ABC radio programs. 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. |