She was educated at the Queensland University of Technology , her theatre work includes the all aboriginal Sydney Theatre Company production of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Sydney Belvoir Street Theatre production of The Small Poppies and the touring production of Seven Stages of Grieving. She is the first Aboriginal actress to win a AFI Best Actress Award. She works at the Aboriginal theatre company Kooemba Djarra in Brisbane and co-wrote the play Seven Stages of Grieving.
Appears on ABCs afternoon children television program, "Play School".
[September 2005] She was one of 12 actors who were offered exclusive two-year contracts by the Sydney Theatre Company to be known as the Actors Company. The other actors also offered contracts are: Marta Dusseldorp , John Gaden , Pamela Rabe , Peter Carroll , Dan Spielman , Brandon Burke , Eden Falk , Marco Chiappi and Hayley McElhinney.
(January 2005) Currently appearing in "The Sapphires", a musical about a quartet of Aboriginal female singers who entertained troops during the Vietnam War, in Sydney.
