The Biography

Angie Milliken (born November 7, 1964, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia) is an Australian actress who graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) after earning a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology at the University of Queensland. She left Australia at 17 to travel overseas for a year before committing to acting, and quickly established herself in the 1990s as a leading performer with the Sydney Theatre Company and Belvoir's Company B, earning nominations for a MO Award and a Theatre Critics Circle Award. She has been nominated seven times and won two Australian Film Institute Awards for Best Actress, for her roles as Amanda McKay in MDA (2003–2005, 34 episodes) and Min Meredith in My Brother Jack (2001). Her most notable film credits include Kate in Dead Heart (1996), Ziggy Keane in Paperback Hero (1999, with Hugh Jackman), Donna Sereno in The Condemned (2007, with Vinnie Jones and Steve Austin), Stela Ghinsberg in Jungle (2017, with Thomasin McKenzie), Madam Z in Elvis (2022, directed by Baz Luhrmann), Sarah in Spiderhead (2022, with Miles Teller and Jonah Hill), and Aunt Donna in Rippy (2024). On television she is best known as Detective Sergeant Jo Moody in The Feds (1993–1996, 9 episodes, with Robert Taylor), Dorothy Drewe in The Shark Net (2003, 3 episodes), and Audrey Van Der Mere in CSI: Miami (2007), with more recent credits in Young Rock (2021, as The Fabulous Moolah), Joe vs. Carole (2022), and Darby and Joan (2022). On stage she has performed extensively in Betrayal, The White Devil, Three Sisters, Don Juan, and Every Breath (2012, Belvoir Street Theatre).