Maggie Millar is an honours graduate of RADA London, having won a scholarship to study there. In her graduation year, she won the Gertrude Lawrence award. Well known for her many TV roles (Bellbird, The Sullivans, All the Way, Prisoner and most recently Rev. Rosie Hoyland in Neighbours), she has won three awards for excellence .

She has appeared onstage with many theatre companies including the Old Vic Company (with Vivien Leigh directed by Sir Robert Helpmann), Melbourne Theatre Company, J C Williamson, Playbox, La Mama, etc, in the films Phar Lap, Bushfire Moon, The Bit Part and Pieta, and on many ABC radio programs. She served on the Women's Committee of the M.E.A.A. (formerly Actors Equity) being specially interested in the portrayal of and opportunities for women in the entertainment industry.

In the last few years she has developed her skills as a pastel painter, holding her first successful solo exhibition in 2000 at Chapel off Chapel, and is currently doing a Diploma of Visual Arts.