---
name: "Sue Milliken"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/sue-milliken"
fi1m_id: "sue-milliken"
imdb_id: "nm0589738"
tmdb_id: 72628
wikidata_id: "Q23020159"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1940"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-03T08:12:03.606397+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Sue Milliken

## Identity

Sue Milliken

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/sue-milliken
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** sue-milliken
- **IMDb ID:** nm0589738
- **TMDB ID:** 72628
- **Wikidata ID:** Q23020159
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Milliken, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23020159, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0589738/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/72628

Producer. Born 1 January 1940 in Sydney.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1940, Sydney
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Milliken, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23020159, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0589738/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/72628

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Ladies in Black*](https://film.one/film/ladies-in-black.md) (62)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Sue Milliken is an Australian film and television producer and screenwriter. She began her career in the late 1960s at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in the continuity department, later working freelance as a production manager on series such as *Skippy the Bush Kangaroo* before producing her first features in the late 1970s.

She is known for long collaborations with director Bruce Beresford, including *The Fringe Dwellers* (1985), *Black Robe* (1991), *Paradise Road* (1997) and *Ladies in Black* (2018), on which she also co-wrote the screenplay. Other credits include *Sirens* (1994), *Dating the Enemy* (1995) and producing numerous episodes of the US series *Farscape* (2000–2003). She has also produced documentaries and television films such as *My Brother Jack* (2001) and *The Redfern Story* (2014).

Milliken chaired the Australian Film Commission from 1994 to 1997 and has held leadership roles with Screen Producers Australia and other bodies. She received the Officer of the Order of Australia in 2008 and awards including the Raymond Longford Award and a Genie Award for *Black Robe*.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, suemilliken.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Ladies in Black* (2018), Fi1m 62, Producer, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/ladies-in-black.md)

## Complete filmography (21)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Ladies in Black* (2024), series, Executive Producer
- *Charmian Clift - Life Burns High* (2024), Co-Producer
- *A Stitch in Time* (2022), Executive Producer
- *Ladies in Black* (2018), Screenplay, Producer — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/ladies-in-black.md)
- *The Redfern Story* (2015), Producer
- *Solo* (2006), Executive Producer
- *Crocodile Dreaming* (2006), Producer
- *Australian Rules* (2002), Thanks
- *My Brother Jack* (2001), series, Producer
- *Paradise Road* (1997), Producer
- *Dating the Enemy* (1996), Producer
- *Sirens* (1994), Producer
- *Black Robe* (1991), Producer
- *Les Patterson Saves the World* (1987), Producer
- *The Fringe Dwellers* (1986), Producer
- *...Maybe This Time* (1981), Production Manager
- *The Odd Angry Shot* (1979), Producer
- *Born to Run* (1977), Production Manager
- *The Picture Show Man* (1977), Production Manager
- *Scobie Malone* (1975), as Continuity
- *Tomorrow is Cancelled* (1970), as Continuity

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Officer of the Order of Australia 2008: Officer of the Order of Australia (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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