Magnolia Maymuru

{{Short description|Aboriginal actress}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox model

| name = Magnolia Maymuru

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| caption = Maymuru with ACTA Award for Best Supporting Actress, The Star December 2019.

| birth_date =1997

| birth_place = Yirrkala, Northern Territory, Australia

| height = {{height|ft=5|in=10}}

| haircolor = Black

| eyecolor = Black

| relatives = Leila Gurruwiwi (aunt)

| occupation = Actress & Model

| yearsactive = 2016-Present

}}

Maminydjama Magnolia Maymuru (born 1997) is an Aboriginal Australian actress and model who won Best Supporting Actress at the 9th AACTA awards, for her portrayal in The Nightingale.{{Cite web|title=AACTA-Winner Magnolia Maymuru On Her Indigenous Idols|url=https://www.instylemag.com.au/magnolia-maymuru-march|access-date=2020-12-31|website=InStyle|language=en-us}}{{Citation | last = Behrendt | first = Larissa | date = 29 August 2019 | title = The Nightingale review – ambitious, urgent and necessarily brutal. But who is it for? | periodical = The Guardian | url = https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/aug/20/the-nightingale-review-ambitious-urgent-and-necessarily-brutal-but-who-is-it-for }}{{Citation | last = Keast | first = Jackie | date = 23 October 2019 | title = 'Lambs of God', 'The Nightingale' lead AACTA nominees | periodical = If | url = https://www.if.com.au/lambs-of-god-the-nightingale-lead-aacta-nominees/ }} She was born in Yirrkala in the Northern Territory of Australia and belongs to the Yolngu community.{{Cite web |date=2021-08-11 |title=Yolŋu model 'touched' by response to Vogue cover |url=https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/article/2021/08/11/yolngu-model-touched-response-vogue-cover |access-date=2022-04-25 |website=NITV |language=en}}{{Cite web|title=AACTA-Winner Magnolia Maymuru On Her Indigenous Idols|url=https://www.instylemag.com.au/magnolia-maymuru-march|access-date=2020-12-31|website=InStyle|language=en-us}}

In 2014, as a teenager, she was spotted by a model scout while withdrawing money from an ATM. First, she turned down the offer as she was continuing her education.{{Cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-23/miss-world-australia-magnolia-maymuru/7646052|title=Indigenous pageant contestant praised for 'creating a conversation'|date=2016-07-23|work=ABC News|access-date=2017-07-23|language=en-AU}} She agreed to take part in a fashion show and to enter fashion industry, as she met Mehali Tsangaris, director of NT Fashion Week, while she was shopping. As a model, she used her registered middle name, Magnolia. At the age of 19, Maminydjama Magnolia Maymuru became the first Aboriginal woman from the Northern Territory to enter the Miss World Australia beauty pageant and reached the national finals.{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/01/aboriginal-teen-model-makes-history-after-making-miss-world-aust/|title=Aboriginal teen model makes history after reaching Miss World Australia finals|work=The Telegraph|access-date=2017-07-24|language=en-GB}}

She is the niece of media commentator and television show producer Leila Gurruwiwi.{{Cite web |title=Off to Emirates Stakes Day with my beautiful Aunty |url=https://x.com/MMaymuru/status/794683212685447169}}